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Show age we grow more susceptible to worry. This very fact is the answer to it all, and the very reason why women of an older generation would do well to cultivate philosophy about their grandchildren. . The best way to enjoy grandchildren grandchil-dren is to make One friends with them. I know one set of grandchildren grandchil-dren who call their grandmother "Mable." She Is still a young woman and they love her to death. She plays jokes on them and they on her. She takes them everywhere and sneaks them sodas and balloons and movies.- To her they are not problems, prob-lems, but real pals and friends. Perhaps her- wny is not every grandmother's Idea of enjoying the youngsters, but even so there Is a lesson In It, I think. A grandmother has more Influence as a friend than as a worrier. Olive Roberts Barton, in the New York World-Telegram. GRANDMA'S PART IN CHILD LIFE Her Influence Important, if She Avoids Worry. Some one asked me what part grandmothers should play In a child's life. What I thought about Interference. Interfer-ence. Did I think they should be unhappy about the mistakes (or what they think are mistakes) of young parents In regard to training and management? A grandma is a necessary person in a child's life and the child who hasn't one misses something very sweet and fine. After bringing up her own family she has done her duty as far. as responsibility and training go. She won't bother about a dirty face or rumpled clothes. She won't shudder at a slang word. She won't run and get the wax can every time a toe or a wagon wheel scores the best chair or sofa. If Joan Isn't getting enough spinach spin-ach or Jimmy should be drinking more milk, she might say a mild word to her daughter, but she needn't worry about it. There are more things to worry grandma than to upset a mother, if she permits It. Tills is natural enough, for as we |