Show Kathleen leen Norris Says 1 Three Wishes for My Child Hell Bell Syndicate Features t t d f 1 r N 1 iI i I I r. r 1 o 0 J o o o D 0 I Betsy rather fat lat not particularly pretty and not a as smart mart as aJ Pat is iJ never never- nevertheless into everything popular everywhere laughing herself I and keeping everyone I Ie e else e laughing I By KATHLEEN NORRIS T- T if you could do doI doone doone PROBABLY I one one thing for that baby of JL yours it would be to make him rich Oh yes I know what youre you're going to say That riches do not mean happiness that character and charm are what count and so on But if a letter arrived this morning saying that Uncle Harold had died leaving each of your three children a quarter of a million you'd not only feel tremendously excited elated and grateful but every friend and neighbor you have w would uld envy you Second mothers like their girls to have beauty All girls are nice look ing these days what with their fine athletic young bodies their brushed hair and clean skins and their make But there is no mother who doesn't like to have it it said Nancys exceptionally lovely Anna Where'd you ever get such a glamour girl Third comes a bunch of advantages advantages advantages travel cleverness charm magnetism music sports languages languages languages lan lan- intelligence We all want our children to have just as much of all these as we can pack into th their ir lives I remember years ago sitting watching youngsters in a horse horseshow horseshow horseshow show in an extremely exalted social atmosphere One beautiful girl about 18 years old had the world at ather ather ather her feet She was rich she was cultured cultured cultured cul cul- cul- cul at least to the extent of being able to jabber impressively about foreign embassies junior league dances ones one's school days in Paris ones one's presentation in London ones one's acquaintance with half the prominent prominent prominent nent folk of the world She came up to show us her horses horse's blue ribbons she was easily the most conspicuous figure in the show Becomes Bitter Woman Well that was 20 years ago She is a bitter talkative self-assertive self woman now always on the de de- de- de She has been married twice and divorced twice neither one of her children is in his mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's custody I think it would be hard to find a more unhappy I woman Disposition is the priceless treasure treasure treasure treas treas- ure in this world To be born with witha a cheerful forgiving philosophical disposition is to be born with something something something some some- thing worth the gold of Golconda or the beauty of the Queen of Sheba Everywhere in the world there are women spreading service and happiness like so many smaller suns Not particularly pretty women women women wom wom- en not women who spend fortunes upon the tint of their cheeks or the color of their lips But radiantly useful useful useful use use- ful confident hearted generous-hearted women who are busy keeping homes places of content and comfort comfort comfort com com- fort who are laughing of off slights and disappointments who are planning planning planning plan plan- ning a glorious tomorrow for the boys who come home Women with happy natures You see the tragedy of this paradox paradox paradox para para- dox illustrated sometimes in the lives of small sisters or brothers Clever Patricia with the curls and the star-sapphire star eyes is a discontented discontented discontented discon discon- I tented sensitive jealous little thing always wanting Betsy's things or imagining that someone dislikes her Betsy born of the same parents parents parents par par- rather fat not particularly pretty and not as smart as Pat is nevertheless into everything popular lar everywhere laughing herself and keeping everyone else laughing eager friendly radiantly interested r IU t t L r 1 Mothers Mothen like their gir girls girl to have havo beauty THE CHEERFUL OUTLOOK Having everything that a girl could desire beauty health athletic skill intelligence money do does does not necessarily foreshadow foreshadow fore fore- ore ore- shadow a happy life Miss lUiss Norris points out Often women who had everything in youth become selfish bitter and f frustrated in middle life They seek secT happiness happi happi- ness by changing husbands by travelling by lavish spending But they cant can't be happy their happy their nature is too self centered too proud too chronically discontented discontented discontented discon discon- tented and critical for them ever everto everto everto to be satisfied On the other hand there are many women who are not particularly particularly particularly par par- pretty not very clever or accomplished who by their natural good natured charm make everybody happier They I are the wives and mothers who reap a rich harvest of affection and respect in their later years While a womans woman's attitude toward toward toward to to- ward life seems to be set in babyhood babyhood babyhood baby baby- hood yet there is much a mother can do for her daughter to try to turn her toward the way ivay of true happiness as Miss lUiss Norris explains explains explains ex ex- plains in this article I in the great adventure of life Pat will go on to her destiny of pride loneliness discontent And Betsy will become one of those daughters wives friends mothers moth moth- ers aunts who draw about them an adoring demanding warming heart-warming family circle building more and more happiness into this tangled web of life as she goes along Trend Shows in Babyhood There is not much we can do about it We come to this life with sunshine or shadow in our way of looking at things and even in a baby of two the trend of a l lifetime can be discerned But we can do something What you can do for your proud pretty selfish little girl is build about her hera herI a world of simplicity humility service Try to show her how much of her future happiness in life depends depends depends de de- de- de upon herself depends upon just how much goodness and unselfishness unselfishness unselfishness she can plant in her own soul Point out to her the wreckage that tha t is so often the life story of a beautiful rich independent woman woman woman wom wom- an and the very real joy that fills the life of the wife and mother who may indeed say to herself that she cant can't cure the ills of the world But that what she can do is keep these few who love her this her this tired man these children this old father and mother these friends glad that she is alive Many a wealthy and beautiful woman never has heard anyone come home to say the things this humbler more serene more needed and beloved woman hears day after day Mother youre you're home oh goody You take awful good care of your tired old husband Mary Nobody ever had a daughter like you Mary You do it it Mary you bring you break the news to her you cook it for us you be there you take care of me Mother It is of such homely stuff as that that the hearts heart's true ecstasies are made mode If we can give our children that formula beauty and wealth can be relegated to fifth place tenth place no pla place e at all |