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Show KATHLEEN NORMS Pure Family Love Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. By KATHLEEN NORRIS " ALL the families in your i books have one characteristic," charac-teristic," writes Nadine Carter, Car-ter, a very modern young woman who does a weekly book-review column for a Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania newspaper. "Whatever your people are, rich or poor, Irish or American, they all love each other oth-er and are sympathetic and cooperative, coop-erative, having such fun doing dishes and being poor! Have you actually ever known a family like that? I haven't. We weren't fighters fight-ers in our family, but we all had our separate interests and grudges and we all that is my sister and I, got out of home young, lived downtown and married. My parents pa-rents were divorced when we were babies and my mother had a son by a second marriage; he's all right now. but he was a regular pest as a small boy. "I myself am divorced, with a little girl to raise," the letter goes ! on. "I'm not imboppy, r.nd not i happy, but my three-room home I isn't that haven of celo'iet fiat nil your homos are. in your beol-p; ?.I-st real homos aren't fail of f-i f-i ieefion raid leyaliy and serviee: i j all Of V,,:.;" KoV N-i'O is YOU'' I ';,' :! b-K-fc on my t !.'.? ana! v V.t I cs:n I a: y of ii eaeey Ta t it jvjlnis an i,1 ail that I . neea' a: ew any home to r. aeb, and ria-n't t'iiak a.p.y li(.i';"i ies oo!" ! i This ha'f-whe.naiaa! and hali'-irn- j pntlent critit;is:n woii'il hae hurt i me oaiee. L'ut now it only makes me a little sad. for if this clever young woman really has grown to maturity without ever knowing what a real home is, she has been robbed of something that no later years can replace. K:gh Icteals Predominate. In answer to her I can only say that there are thousands of homes hundreds of thousands of them in this fortunate country of ours, where children are raised to high ideals of service and duty, and where family love is developed as naturally as young minds and bodies are. There are countless good fathers and good mothers, who live only for home and children, who maintain high ideals of personal be- havior themselves, and live to see that fineness reflected in their children's chil-dren's lives. ...h...:. rS3'2'' '.'--. ...1. ...wi There are good mothers. . . . There Is no happiness in the whole world like the happiness tn a good home. There is no service a.ny man or woman can lo for their children, for their community, for their country nd for their God, compared to Jeveloping- in their children the characters, the minds and souls that make good citizens. Love doesn't come naturally t fhildren. It has to be cultivated: nothing about a fine home atmosphere atmos-phere is an accident. There must be someone guiding, smoothing, helping. When father and mother are working on this plan, the idea) home results. Children Need Guidance. America's story is full of the goodness of book -loving, family loving, Godfearing fathers, and oi mothers who have brought actual genius to the guidance of children: guidance disguised under happy everyday ev-eryday living, in the garden, the kitchen, the school, the nursery. Family love and home happiness are not merely pleasanter than quarrels and coldness and separation, separa-tion, they are absolutely essential to the safety of a nation. Men and women who can look back to a home-protected childhood are valuable valu-able men and women. Nothing that your sacrificing or your wealth or your ingenuity can contrive for your children is worth anything at all. unless behind it is the atmosphere that develops mutual .dependence and mutual help. Most of this atmosphere is ere ated by mother. If you happen tc be Mother, it might console you, in these difficult, extravagant days tc realize that you can give your children chil-dren a priceless heritage at nc money coBt at all. The heritage ol a harmonious and happy home. |