| Show KATHLEEN KA NORRIS Home Is Base of Civilization TWO FIFTY ought NINETEEN I I to be Americas America's family year Inasmuch as the whole world is in an uproar and half hall of Its occupants occupants occupants pants suffering from one disaster or another this would be a good time to pull ourselves together domestically and make every hour count in developing new securities and new happiness right in hi the family circle For no changes in wars politics treaties loans international agreements agree ments can possibly be as important as just that what that what you and I do in our homes The very base of civilization civili is set in these eight and nine nine- room homes of ot ours these five and six-room six flats That's where the great reformation of the world is going to start And it is only when we make home perfect that the change will begin Ten changed family groups in your town would make a dent In world misery a hundred in your state would save I thousands of divorces and despairs and l if one million women began today to make 1952 the happiest year their own loved ones ever had known the whole of the tired old world would know it Start with New Year So start with this New Year and use just the materials you have at hand and see where you get Start with love of course Love fulfills the law If you are the manof manof man manof of the house scatter a little affection affection tion about Amaze your children into the whispered comment II I t 1 V k j ja a 1 If family year ear happened to Dad DadI Hes He's awfully nice this morning Talk confidence and safety to the children What you and their mother say Bay Is making little records on their minds and souls scratches of fear and dislike and discouragement discourage discourage- ment that wont won't ever be effaced Change all that by telling them that nothing bad can can happen as long longas as they love each other Your longsuffering longsuffering long long- suffering wife may may faint taint away at this sudden change in your attitude attitude atti atti- tude but you'll have to risk that Remind them that If It you have less money someday well someday well you'll move to that battered old farm Joe Doakes has been trying to sell you and Mommy and Maureen can make doughnuts for the market market mar mar- ket and Jim and Bob here can raise cocker pups Cockers sell well these days You'll Be Surprised You may be surprised and somewhat somewhat some some- what daunted to discover that of ot all things that Is exactly what your supposedly pampered children would like If It you happen to be the young daughter of ot the house reading this then contribute your own sensational sensational sen sen- reforms to the general movement Suddenly grow up Grow up to realize that it is love and not just fussiness and bossiness J that is worrying Mother and Da about you That with the wrong friends drinks cars parties night nightclubs nightclubs nightclubs clubs you can throw throwaway away in your teens what all your later years cant can't replace and that they know it and you dont A reckless love love- affair now a hasty silly marriage isn't just a matter of making some boy promise hell he'll never tell anyone anyone any any- one or rushing into a young di dl- vorce No its it's doing something to you body and spirit that has a away away away way of recalling its itself ell all your life long But its it's on you the wife and mother that the real burden of this family year falls Begin by being be ing always cheerful always con con- On the outside anyway Puzzle them all into wondering what delightful thing has happened to Mother Why she's always smiling She acts as if she had some awfully pleasant secret deep in her ber heart She walked to the thedoor thedoor thedoor door with Daddy and brushed something off oU his coat she coat she hasn't done that for ever so long And she said Take care of yourself now we value you and did you see Dad come back up the steps and kiss her again Let Maureen l have a few friends in for pencil games and cookies Saturday nights |
