Show KATHLEEN NORMS Let Truth and Tenderness Guide LIFE would be a differ-ent if our husbands and fathers would just That is what more than women wrote in answer to a question I asked about New Year's Some women answered this and that was the decision of one third of is too they absorbed in his own he doesn't notice the he doesn't take any interest in home he sleeps at hides behind a sits close to the shouts out that there's too much and presently goes up to bed without a goodnight to That's the consensus on Mother wants his resolution to be toward a more gracious toward kindly interest in his participation In home my comment on that Involves another this one respecting Mother can do more than anyone else to accomplish to encourage an affectionate welcome for Dad every confidences from the table week-end Letters from Dads From the letters I get from men and they come in about one in 10 I gather that Dad often needs in the family of what some old writer beautifully described as the essentials of a happy and Very often Dad doesn't get either at Even the small children learn to conceal things from soften stories for his fool him ail along the He knows He knows Mother is in a conspiracy close to the radio with the to get more money from to hide school to hush him up If he tries to TUe result Is apt to be that when he does in he feels like an angry he says more than he Mother's face becomes a mask of and the small son or daughter weeps and shouts that Sometimes it has given me a real heartache to notice with what calm superiority a woman will place barriers between her husband and his Naturally during the difficult nursery she has been busy minimizing the incessant difficulties of her job as she carries this on in a sort of instinctive Jealousy and Without realizing she wants them still to come to her for They hardly know their father because Mother has been so persistent with her bright and see movie Tony and Beverley think they'd rather stay with Don't bother Daddy with your Wait until Daddy and we'll fix it all leave her to she isn't We jut awakened too didn't A Time Pleasantly excluded in this Daddy finds hit own amuse and sometimes his own Neither he nor his wife realizes that mis time when children are leaving nursery when she has more freedom and the children more is a dangerous It is a time that demands real intelligence on the part of husband and they must shift their positions to meet The father must win his way into the friendship and interest of his the mother must more and more let them deliberately sharing her responsibility for her love and her So Dad's resolution when 1051 comes to this troubled and puzzled may well be that he will concentrate his care upon this home whatever imperfections and outrages and wrongs shake the old his loved ones will be growing nearer and nearer toward home For it is home happiness that will always be the very root of world And Mother must take to her heart those magical and Tenderness when he comes home A smile from the busy woman m the a small child trotting in with a warming cup of hot soup on a cold a hoarse-voiced boy shutting off the radio long enough to ask if Dad got his feet wet and thank him for leaving money for the game And Truth is Truth about paid and About the Inevitable shocks and disappointments that even the best children contrive to Truth about Mother needs to know that Dad isn't keeping any good or from the woman he loves and in his sort of wants to have a share in everything that touches the lives of the growing children and their |