Show KATHLEEN KA NORRIS NORMS Pure Family Love Bell Dell Syndicate Syndicate F Features By KATHLEEN NORRIS c ALL LL the families in your L books have one characteristic characteristic characteristic charac charac- writes Nadine Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter a very modern young woman who does a weekly review book-review column for a Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania newspaper Whatever your people arc rich or poor Irish or American they all love each other other other oth oth- er and are sympathetic and cooperative coop having such fun doing dishes and being poor Have you actually ever known a family like that I We weren't fighters fight ers in our family but but- we all had our separate interests and grudges and we all that all that is my sister and andI I got out of home young lived downtown and married My parents pa pa- rents were divorced when we were babies and my mother had a son by a second marriage hes he's all right now but he was a regular pest as asa asa asa a small boyI boy I III myself am divorced with a little girl to raise the letter goes on Im not unhappy and not happy but my three-room three home isn't that haven of ot delight that all your homes are in your books Most real homes arent aren't full fuU of affection af d. af- af and loyalty and service all of yours are arc Now here is your latest book on my table and what can I say of it except that it paints an ideal that I never knew any home to reach and dont don't think any homes do S S This halt whimsical half and im half patient criticism would have haye hurt me once But now it only makes me a little sad For if it this clever young woman really has grown to maturity without ever knowing what a real home is she has been robbed of ot something that no later years can replace HI High h Ideals Predominate In answer to her I can only say that tha t there are thousands of homes hundreds of thousands of them them- in this fortunate country of ours where children are raised to high ideals of ot 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 behavior behavior be be- havior themselves and live to see that fineness reflected in their childrens children's childrens chil drens dren's lives ilves t There ar are goo good mothers There Is no happiness In En the whole world like the happiness in a good home There is no service any man maD or woman can 10 lo for their children for tor their community for their country ind nd for their God compared to in hi their children the characters the minds and souls that make good citizens Love doesn't come naturally t tt ti hildren children It has to be cultivated nothing about a fine home borne atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere is an accident There mus must be someone guiding smoothing helping When father and mother are working on this plan the ideal idea home results Children Need Guidance Americas America's story Is full of the goodness of book loving book loving family loving fathers and o of mothers who have brought actual genius to the guidance of children guidance disguised under happy happ ev everyday everyday living in the garden the kitchen the school the nursery Family love and home happiness s sare are not merely pleasanter than quarrels and coldness and separation separation tion they are absolutely essential to the safety of ot a na nation tion Men anc and women who can look back to a protected home childhood are valuable valuable value 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 cre atod by mother If U you happen to tobe tobe tobe be Mother It might console you in these difficult extravagant days to realize that you can give your chil chi children children dren a priceless ss heritage at nc money cost at all The heritage oi ol oia oja ola a harmonious and happy home |