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Show THE NERVOUS MODERN CHILD If this restless age does not soon come to an end, the world will be crowded with physical and mental wrecks. Children were formerly kept comparatively quiet during infancy in-fancy and childhood. They were also put to bed early at night. During the day they played with a few simple toys or romped in the gardens or under the trees. Today, their nurseries are fitted up with every kind of contraption con-traption intended to amuse and interest them. Ambitious mothers moth-ers try to teach them to fit maps and puzzles together at a very tender age. As soon as they begin to toddle, they play in the streets where life is a constant con-stant source of danger. Poor little things dart back and forth on treacherous skates and scooters, escaping automobiles, automo-biles, looking and listening at every turn for the juggernauts of death that strike so swiftly, maiming or killing. They are tense and on the quivive every moment, for they cannot romp, skate and play where deadly machines dart bagk and forth without realizing that at any moment they may be crushed under a truck, automobile or motorcycle. When the,y go to school, the work is of necessity under our public school system, so arranged ar-ranged that a certain amount Week-End Guest I Mr. Ken Weston of Salt Lake was a week-end guest at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Weston. I I must be covered in a given time. , They are still further stimulated by the offering of various rewards re-wards or distinction if they at- tain certain standards. The result is that some children chil-dren easily reach the coveted goal while others who may have tried equally as hard and failed, feel bitter and keen disappointment disappoint-ment which is further aggravated aggra-vated into resentment against the teacher who was in no way to blame. If you enter a moving picture theater where there is a show of a character which is most exciting, ex-citing, filled with fighting and dangerous hair-breadth escapes you will find the place packed with children of all ages, squealing, squeal-ing, yelling and otherwise giving giv-ing vent to their excited, pent-up pent-up emotions. Do you wonder that nervousness nervous-ness is increasing among children? chil-dren? It is a disease that is growing by leaps and bounds. The nervous child, unless placed in the proper environment and treated as he should be, will grow up into a neurathenic, delinquent de-linquent or psychoneurotic. He may ultimately land in an insane in-sane asylum. The latter institutions insti-tutions are becoming so overcrowded over-crowded that at the present rate of increase in their population, in a few years the sane, normal people that are left will be unable un-able to bear the burden of the unfit. |