Show l Kathleen Norris Says Living Is a Gallant Struggle Bell Syndicate Features Futures 1 I CARS j 7 cItI fl f l L- L j I 0 sI s 's I i j 01 F L a 1 12 2 c 4 I I II under Ih the Ilg age of seven seve are Me re in n desperate tears five or six si times I llis impossible to 10 save chil childhood hood from pain pahi B By KATHLEEN NORRIS HERE is no woman r T I alive nor man either Si for that matter who matter who has injustices Hons disappointments eis in childhood There t it one of us whose parents ere rere e always just and wise I bose ose teachers were always lightened and self whose associates in thool ool and play street and were p-were ip were always good aide lude boys down the block man eman e who killed the kitten e e bg big girl who snatched the roll oIl the cowardly mate desk-mate tho o told lies the measles hat t came in circus week ande and be e birthday when grandma so sick there couldn't be wasn't wasn't your child- child filled with these and sim- sim far r tragedies lIme Hue was And yet mine was wast eat t in a lovely country home with withe fie se e and gentle genUe parents in charge I J i it and all the fun and freedom 4 y love Iove can buy for children gar children garia gar gar- I ia to books cows horses dogs plc- plc Ites ih I Cant Can't Stop Pain It It Itis Is Impossible to save childhood ten on pain In reasoning helpless cd ad Impatient children inevitably tier Jer Children under the age of ofen ofen en are in desperate tears five or dl times a day Older children are aree e victims of constant heartbreak Is ir possible impossible for mother to take tm en to the park Another head for forte te e broken doll is not to be found I ere is no more cake because the I tel child devoured the whole I t t. t A bicycle would cost daddy I i too much money dear You have to totz I. I tz f in bed If the doctor says so o. o e dont don't know why one little boy aks his hU arm and another and another little J y gets a pon pony la b later life lie to sweepingly ascribe wital rital failure heart weaknesses kid ld the tendency to fall over small mall to any anyone one of these babyhood ciel seems to me pitiably absurd scores of books now crowd our with these exact analyses in inI lUious print t I Scared by Spider Because a small girl of ot eight was kingly scared by finding a large der on her hand she was tome some years years later assured that the very Me Ir rk hair of her husband and eldest recalled this experience and her increasing stomach cubles and hysteria A man of 40 3 pretty widowed young mother ad d remarried when he was 11 tenths old went into a hospital and anda ter a while was told that weeks investigation and hundreds of dol dol- expense had ascertained that thata a unconscious complex ow they love that had hadYen Yen Yea him asthma timidity and a LIike for his Ws own children We e love to talk blk about ourselves e e love to feel that someone else responsible for our laziness Jeal Jeal- sr cowardice fears And since sincee e are the result of heredity en- en and experience and since ese inflexible three never arise orn h-orn om sources of complete purity and we are by heredity subject to lo human weaknesses of all sorts Full Fall of Quacks But the the much much abused science of try and no field is more f I l' l y fI I f J Tb Tbt measles that Ibm 14 came I GRIEF FOR ALL Everybody in the course of everyday living encounters o obstacles ob 1 heartaches disillusions disillusion ark and gross injustices By conquering conquering con con- the many thorns which are strewn in the path of life we ue build character of su such sterling quality that we weare are immune to 10 practically any I tribulations which are cast in our direction Jf Miss ss Norris reflects on her childhood days and ami reveals reveal that she experienced many tragic incidents which impressed her forcefully But to ascribe adult conduct to childhood incidents seems unwarranted d to Miss J Norris To avoid such fallacious reasoning rea rca children should be taught early that life is a constan constant con con- stant stan difficult uphill battle lV When hen such an attitude ill is firmly firmly firm firn- ly inculcated in their minds they will accept disappointments disappoint disappoint- ments and failures in stride full at the moment of quacks experimenters ex and opportunists I seems to me to deal at best with lamentable results rather than with preventable causes Wise Vise parents or even one wise parent can do more for childhood during childhood than can kindly analytical outsiders be be they ever so honest when honest when the mischief of the long years is done Why not take a more heroic spiritual attitude with our children Why not teach them drill them in inthe inthe inthe the truth that life is hard disappointments disappointments plenty their own self- self esteem far too sensitive other persons person's opinions far less Important than youth thinks them 1 This can be done without pessimism indeed it can be done in a spirit of strength and courage An honest view of all nIl the petty tribulations of babyhood nursery days and the teens can be bean bean bean an exhilarating challenge it can build a character so strong that aUthe all aU the storms of life can burst against it in vain Youthful Tribulations Worthwhile lives are not always built on youthful tribulation and deprivation dep but 99 times out of they are The smiling strong resourceful man who solves his own problems problems' and has a hand free for those of 01 others didn't climb to that height over rose leaves The serene and gracious woman to whom you turn as an example and guide wasn't born that way Perhaps she has known poverty ingratitude years of ol apparently unavailing struggle Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps her seemingly happy and successful marriage was built on early years of complete incompatibility with wIth that man who is so devoted devoted de de- voted so content on their silver wedding day Perhaps she has seen the boy who was her world walk oil off to the war not to return It would be wrong to belittle the the- gallant struggle of the new school of mental doctors to straighten out the twists of unhappy lives But perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps your particular trouble can be handled by yourself Perhaps in the forgiveness of Injustice In n service to others in prayer in courage and andIn andIn andin In looking forward to better things rather than back at those thase wrongs we all knew In youth you may find the Che answer |