Show i J Worms Don't Dont Sing r t f k j 4 S 4 S By OLIVE OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON S Rose Ros Pastor Stokes wrote a little poem c called A Childs Child's HeaU I I e I eIn S In It she says says The worm wont won't sing the ugly thing r 1 S A certain l lady adr dY to took k exception to the statement declaring that a a German scientist had discovered In n ear earthworms hw a sound sound rhythm that could b be heard twelve teet feet away t t S l S But she furthermore declares Leclare what is more important im- im and more to the point that a childs child's heart docs not brand even a worm as squirming and nd ugly until prejudiced by a a supersensitive grownup It Is true Childhood gets its cue from from matur- matur Ity ty How careful parents should be before little children chil dren A chIle chile of 4 4 or 01 I 5 years has no world put but ut his parents and arid older sisters and brothers Hl His mind minds Is s like soft wax that is slowly hardening An Impression Im im- n made mado then hardens and remains th the warp cannot be Ironed out There happ happened ned a thing In our own house one Um Imp that resulted in jitter itter mental con confusion for the children We Ve had read to them constantly stories of cute little making Gray Tail Tall a s sort rt of hero deserving of of sympathy because his enemy arch-enemy th the cat was wis always trying to kil kilt kill him Mrs Mouse had tea parties and kept house and lectured her chIldren children chil chIl- dren and was quite quite- a person We Ve even had A a little nursery pastime of pasting pussy willows on n a a card for tor the bodies of the little mice drawing in the tall tail ears ears whiskers and head with varying degrees of craftsmanship S Mice to the children were of the genus fairy at least least east quite as respectable and deserving of attention attentions as s Robin ned Redbreast and Granddaddy Frog Trog rog One day mice appeared In in- reality They Thov ato tA t brown sugar an and d cornmeal brazenly out of our kitchen cupboard and there was nothing to do but to set tr traps raps ps We caught several mice but I shall shaI n never ver forget how the littlest girl screamed and crIed when she saw one of the little gray creatures helpless and dead on Its ts bit of board and the satisfied remarks of the family over its demise She should not have seen It It o of or course We had Idealized It then we had killed it you see seel I I never ne could explain n It away She lost faith In me Big issues have come nd gone gone But one of the biggest things things' that ever ever- happened hap- hap ened Jn n our house was the murder of the mou mouse moue e. e It t was as though I had hae strangled our canary A 0 I |