Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Pure Family Love Bell Syndicate Features By KATHLEEN NORRIS U LL L the families in your n books have one characteristic characteristic charac charac- i writes Nadine Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter a very modern young woman who does a Q weekly review book column for a Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania vanla newspaper Whatever your people arc are rich or poor Irish or American they all love each other other oth oth- oth er and are arc sympathetic and cooperative cooperative coop coop- having such fun run doing dishes and being poor Have you actually ev ever r known a family like that I We w weren't rent fighters fight ers era in our family but we nil all had our separate interests and grudges and we all that all that is my sister and andI I got out of ot home borne young lived downtown and marri married d. d My parents pa pa- rents were divorced when we were babies and my mother had bad a son by a s second cond marriage hes he's all right now but he was a regular pest as asa asa asa a small boyI boy boyI I 1 myself am divorced with a little girl to raise the letter goes on Im not unhappy and not happy but my three-room three home isn't that haven of delight that all your homes are in your books bocks Most real homes arent aren't full of affection affection af d. af- af and loyalty and service all of yours are Now here is your latest book on my table and what can I say of at It except that it paints an ideal that I never knew any home to reach and dont don't think any homes do dol S S S This half whimsical and inn hall patient criticism would have hurt burt me once But now it only makes me a little sad For if it this clever young woman really has v grown to maturity without ever knowing knowin what a real home is she has been robbed of ot something that no later years can replace High Ideals Predominate In answer to her ber I 1 can only say that there are thousands of ot homes hund hundreds s of thousands of them them- In this fortunate country of ours our where children are raised to high ideals of ot service and duty anc and where family love Is ic developed ae as alna na naturally as young youn minds anc and bodies are There are countless good fathers and good mothers who live only for home and children who maintain high ideals of ot personal behavior behavior be be- havior themselves and live to see that fineness reflected in hi their childrens children's childrens chil drens dren's lives lires I r t J There rt ru good oo m mothers lb rs There is no DO happiness in the while world like Uko the happiness In a pod good home There is no DO vice sex any man maD or woman yoman can lo 10 for tor their children for their community for their country and nd for their God compared to levelling in IB their children the characters th the minds and souls that make good citizens Love doesn't come naturally t tc hildren It has bas to be cultivated nothing about a fine home atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere is 11 an accident There must be someone guiding smoothing helping When father and mother are working on this plan the ideal idea home results Children Need Guidance Americas America's story is full tull of the goodness of book loving family loving fathers and o of mothers who have brought actual genius to the guidance of children guidance disguised under happy everyday ev eVe living in the garden the kitchen the school the nursery Family love and home happiness s sare are not merely pleasanter than quarrels and coldness and separation separation tion they are absolutely essential to the safety of a nation notion Men and women who can look back to a home protected home protected childhood are valuable valuable able men and women Nothing that your sacrificing or your wealth or your ingenuity can contrive for your children is worth anything at all unless behind it is the atmosphere that develops mutual dependence and mutual help Most of at this atmosphere is ere cre by mother If U you happen to tobe tobe tobe be Mother it might console you In these difficult extravagant days to realize that you can give your children children chil chil- dren a priceless heritage at nc money cost at all The heritage ofa ofa of ol ola a harmonious and happy home |