Show KATHLEEN NORMS Mother Blames Adopted Country SOMETIMES I get a letter that makes me It may be written quite innocently and in good but the effect of it is to make me say to the don't you go play in your own Such a letter lies on my desk It is signed by a woman who lives in both she and her husband are but came to this country as small this Is the finest country in the we don't see says the would certainly go back to our own country if we could afford But salaries there are very low and there is no work for women or Here my husband makes about a and I am paid a week for night work as chambermaid In a We have seven and live in a five-room apartment which does allow for comfortable My two older boys have a paper route that pays them and my husband is very we are saving although giving the children a television last Christmas and In other ways trying to make up to them for crowded Rents are high and space scarce Impudent Child problem Is our oldest who is She has been acting with great independence and has come home late on three smelling of liquor and is pretty enough and saying that she could not remember where she had She is In first year does Is pretty and liked by her Her father whips but it seems to have no His desire is that she stay as I am absent from 5 to 11 p.m. get dinner and keep an eye on the younger so the boys can get their papers But she is ani says she will run She hus lately been offered a job as ticket clerk In I after school but we forbid her taking cannot myself see what Is so great about a Maria's letter which the young people have so much freedom for dangerous At home girls are obedient and make themselves useful in the Here it is all boys and running the A lady came here recently to tell me that Bev lid be put into a school for kind of If she was seen again with ertin Am I to blame If In our t these dangers What argument can we use to save our girl ruining her own As I this letter makes me I often mad these days at parents who do as they live their own neglect their families in soul and and look calmly to America to train and discipline their children for Absent Mother Seven children packed Into five through Pennsylvania's burning summers and freezing mother gone all through the afternoon and evening father coming home tired and work-stained to find a rebellious child trying to control younger boys made to gulp their dinners and get and little hungry for her own share of this money-making and for the delights of the lighted streets and the crowds and the cokes and sodas and is expected to spend her evenings washing cleaning and getting small children to Years ago this mother should have gotten her brood away from the When a man and a woman are responsible for seven other human beings they have to make changes and These people should have found some rambling old deserted place In the shabby outskirts of the made sure there was a spacious and devoted themselves to becoming a and not a group of detached Don't write there are no such there are hundreds of |