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Show GKANDMA'SPAHT IN CHILD LIFE Her Influence Iiiiporta lit, if Slie Avoids Worry. Some one asked me what part grandinol hers should play In a chlld'H life. What I thought about Interference, Interfer-ence, lid I think they should be unhappy about I In- mistakes (or what they think are mistakes) or young pnrenlN In regard to training and management ? A grandma Is a necessary person In a child's life and the child who hasn't one misses something very sweet and line. After bringing up her own family she has done her duly as tar as responsibility and training go. She won't bother about n dirty face or rumpled clothes. She won't shudder lit a slang word. She won't run and get the wax can every time a toe or a wagon wheel scores the best chair or sofa. If .loan Isn't getting enough spinach spin-ach or .llmniy should be drinking more milk, she might say n mild word to her daughter, but she needn't worry about it. There are more things to worry grandma than to upset a mother, If she permits It. This Is natural enough, for ns we age we grow more Huseeptlble to worry. 'I his very fai t Is Ihe answer to It all, and Ihe very reason why women of an older general Ion would do well to ciilllvale philosophy about their grandchildren. The best way to enjoy grandchildren grandchil-dren Is to make line friends wilh Ihein. I know one wet of grandchll-divn grandchll-divn who call their grandmother ".Mnble." She Is still a young woman and they love her to dealh, She plays Jokes on them and they on her. She lakes them everywhere nnd sneaks them sodas and balloons and movies. To her they are not prob lems, but real pals nnd friends. I'erhnps her way Is not every grandinol her's Idea of enjoying the youngsters, but even so there Is a lesson In It, I think. A grandmother has more Influence as a friend than as a worrlor. Olive Itoherts linrton. In the New York World Telegram. |