Show TOO MUCH PAMPERING Hane Harvey the author of a D recent popular novel Clara Baron Daron warns against cannibal mot mothers hers and managing women These are people who ho are the victims of o mistaken Idealism The cannibal mother does not actually kill and eat et her young Physically she not only lets them lives but makes make lire life soft sott and easy for them But spiritually and mentally she ahe owns possesses de- de de detours ours tours and absorbs the very wry lives md and wills of o her children so that the they nev never r learn freedom of at thought and action until middle life lite when the learning Is hard Sometimes In fact act this mastery of the mother mind has made so deep an nn Impression upon the son or daughter daughter daughter that it Is never fUll fully thrown oft orr and the child remains In a kind of mental bondage to the the will and ideals of o another III all his life le The release from actual parental control comes too late In life to actually free tree the mind Then there is the managing wo wo- woman woman man who ft ho has become both a na national blessing and a national pest Her fer honest desire is to manage the worlds world's good But all too often oCten her passion for or management and reform Is basel based upon an an Impractical kind of ot idealIsm Ideal Ideal- Idealism ism This type typo of o woman oman wants the the world arid to be a perfectly Sar safe place for her children to live In InSo So Eo she goes about it with might and nd main to weed out every eHry dan dan- danger dan Eer ger ger which might menace them In that procedure the she often makes herself a nuisance a-nuisance for lor she plans a world that Is safe for children Instead of adults seem s seeming em log ing to forget that adults must learn to know life lite and to choose Ithe the good from the ill Plants reared in hothouses hot away from every cool wind that blows are always fragile and del dell dell cate cate Set them outdoors In the wind and rain and one of two things happens Either they sicken and anddie anddie die or they grow stout and strong and learn to stand up against wind and storm But it takes a little mUe courage for forn fora tora n a mother to learn that children OUght to have ha at least as good a chance at meeting life lICe as 88 a plant The most precious thing which any human being can possess is his GIs own on mind and will and the sense of his own power and reo re responsibility The mother who ho robs her child of ot that heritage takes from him something more precIous than gold DO |