Show THE WEE MEN AND MAIDS I Their Dress a and lq Work Time D Deportment p Work Time and and Playtime Childish Maners and Development dear deal me mo sigh h so ninny many mothers I 1 do wish that the children n would never grow up They rIH 1 are aro everything c in the thc world to me and 1 simply can cannot cannot not noL bear hem to think of or the tine time when they must grow row up and go out In Ill the world and marry y and anti leave Ica me mile To the a average g observer r cl such a mother seems nu to be going very Vets fur afield Indeed el to encounter l' l trouble and the more mOl KO sn since everything I is done today to keep keell children from growing up Ull all too soon to 10 keep them thorn n as long longas as po possible in that Joyland GIrl Royland While you OU dwell within It 11 you are arc over r I happy there i Childhoods Childhood's lanil Jo Mystic t tlc tlc- merry merr i o Once you ou cross ro Its Ils lI borders lers You can neer ne'er return again og-aln a c a-c the tho pretty tt chorus 1 el to JU sing ping In hi that play r Js jl- jUst ut an t dear to grown to-grown l grown Iown folks as it I Is q the C little ones The rhe one ont sensible t thing that oven even the mo most t rabid of reformers Insist upon is fl I that children hall I be I kept ep children Jt as aH I long long- u an TIO possible Anti Anil this In their I spots sports their I clothes their theIl deportment and antI in all all all' 0 of th the that pertain tn I t their dally daily life and el development A A on grandmother one p of the tho old old- I fashioned Ivan kind n on of a to pct her daughterly daughter v ro the tile nur i ry iy an afforded no indications that the lime suicide race sul l theory wits wax practiced In that house house- hold The Tho h children h were l trade friends unit and H b f byboth h par and antl lh the little ones ones' called tl lh father ethics and mot tl h 11 by Christian r Oi n nb b nUr Un lJ nits d l Aim l r ral appellations rh Their It presence was taken i J. J 7 I as as a a. a matter of course o at the tho dinner I table even cven when formal guests were expected The rho children need less Instruction at table than you did nt at their their- abet age grandmother or remarked to their moth moth- er 1 They know knot the tho uses lISCS of more specially So- So shaped ha ell spoons and forks forliS than I Idid at their time timo of life lifo or ot than I J Ido do oven even now for the Iho matter of that added the old lad lady with n a humorous twinkle in hor her ore eye But ut It really reaU distresses me Adele Adel th the wa way they thoy sit with their elbows elbows' on tho the table and break brenk Into the tho conversation conversa conversa- conversation tion just whenever er tho the notion strikes thorn thoin You would h vo been punished n when Jt you OU 1 were lit girl If It you OU had lone done even l' half haIr o what thc they do tin o everyday every everyday 1 day clay ami anil go l vl you yon Oll do to not 1111 believe that little children h n may maybe maybe be h hR R seen n h hilt but t must not be le heard Oh Oh easily responded respond the mother moWer It lf is merely merely- lr developing their ther You l know no that both and andI I Lw r brought tip alp on tho the repression I n nI plan and a as a t result W we were Ah shy and I reserved i i I I'd d and awk l 1 I too ton used to follow your QUI excellent adage with wIlh the children until I 1 happened halll to go o to dancing school with and aud Mil Mil- d od on one 11 tiny day a un und timid I wa- wa simply eli disgusted dis gusted wit wiLl wiLl- tho the awkward a way th they held P Oh Oh yes CI they w wore were rl polite enough and lh obeyed th tit hI teacher leacher mutt and slid did what what- ev v r they were told hold But tut tho they dill not either of oi them address etis a single W word Ie to nn any rif if t their companions n of ctt their own n volition option and painfully shy W and troubled whim anybody e it gem m 4 lilt Mild ll dj h had hada a 11 n nits nits' w lain po lira r jat was wal I N pretty Ill I'll tt I tier I P tI lg It s were ro Irreproachable her her hair ribbons f I I j were all right and there was no reason h why she sho 10 should have ha looked so desperately des lIes pm But look it shedid she shedid he did dill and all at once it rushed upon my consciousness ness that thaL I had hall rubbed that time old-time saying yIng in upon her once too often orten and it had halt taken en such root that now tho the poor churl child was afraid tobe to tobe tobe be heard in public But nut between the two extremes extremes- that of oC r repression and anel that of expansion ex ex- ex- ex the the moll modern rn child 1 iM iii sure Burn of ot ll development nt There Is evidence at tho tea best besl classes where dancing and the tho time old grace glace of or d deportment is iN taught and taught and tho those cla classes class are often filled filed years ahead of or time mothers have havo been known to enter their childr childrens children's n names even before before before be be- fore they h have been christened a rl tenell-a tenell a re return re- re turn urn to the tho old timo formality and formalities Co o of manner a apt and cl manners The Tho small l child of ot today h begins her social education when she Is ig G 6 or 8 years can old 1 b- b by going to tho the ju juvenile dancing or gymnasium class clas A most successful Sw Swedish teacher I In New NewYork To York Jc who ha has the names of or many prospective little lUll millionaires s on Oil her books says that sh she l endeavors to teach her small charges that they l must strive to todo do as she h instructs because because be be- cause au 1 they are arc gentlewomen women and that being h ln gentlewomen the they cannot possibly pos pos- sibly bo bl gull guilty of the many breaches of or manners art and arit i decorum cl M l m that thaL are ar arall all rho o often n indulged td In by b-A heedless childhood At Al Atthe Atlie the lie gy gymnasium a little 1 bloomer stilt of white or cashmere a oil it mohair Is worn with White stockIngs stockIng stockings stock- stock Ings Ing and 11 white while canvas Soled rubber shoos shoes Boys BON at and d d g girls stand side Ide by I side c and ud learn the sin same C exercises and nud tit tho nursery maids maltiN stand l on one ont side I and follow the tho lesson lonson J on throughout so o th that th they dies y may maY aid aft theline tho the I line at The dri cl SH 1 ie a of C Ct he c n 1 i u and such Uch of th folks h r deBiro clo- clo dC 1 l Biro siro It are art taught leaser solo dances anc i which J 1 I really bring hying out quite a a. little JUtie of 0 the child's childs personality At l an Ente entertainment where Wh children undertook all 11 of tho the performance one ono little girl hl appeared in a a. dance llanco acid chorus which did not nol lake very well and so it was wai as not encored At its con con- conclusion elu Clu ion Sion she h betook herself to her mothers mother's box and anel watched the part parL in which her hor Cousin appeared This was wildly encored and the tho mother molher feared that her hN small mall daughters daughter's feelings 3 might be he hurt But the thi little ono one smiled and said What do you do-you o you think mother th they y made maele Maisie's class do their dance three times over I gue guess s th they thoy did not do 10 It Il quite right ht the Or first ll time and so they had to doIt do elo doIt eloIt It over a again aln But wasn't it nice nica orth ot or th the people p to make them do llo It b by clapping You S see we wo did dill all Ill rl right ht the Iho pr very first time and so 80 did dirt not have hav to do 10 It all over again Very quickly do the youngsters o nowadays appreciate what Is good form In dress and other matters rs A Any Ariy aU attempt nt at overdressing I Is at once one frowned d upon by wealthy mothers ora of at C today and it would surprise m many ny a a. poor p mother l' l to see sec the tho garments that the rich children whose Inheritances are matters of or almost almot national gossip wear habitually Plainness ss when It does not nol mean u ugliness I Is what is Insl Insisted lell upon For Forthe the dancing school the tho favored orell style blyle is lR isal n al at ono lino lingerie frock flock with delicately tinted tt d or white while halt hall ribbons l and sometimes t a a sash ash Either white whito or or 1 black slut Ilk stockings and hl black k patent nt leather r slippers ar are worn wOIn colored footwear o bring In very poor t tp Colored II silk silk- linings or slips are o only to who have havo seen at least a l dozen summers th they are supposed d to timid no place placa whatsoever I In th 01 the wardrobe of or her younger sister |