Show Bobs and Lipstick Defended By Jessie New Y Yorker Abroad De Denies That Modern Mothers Are Not Fit to Rear Children Case of Lady Is Pointed Out to Disprove Claim of Churchmen and Statesmen BY JESSIE JESSIR The The Nw New Yorker broad Abroad Special Dispatch Dl to The Th Stand Stand- ard Examiner ard Copyright 1926 By fly The Th Consoli Consolidated dated Press Freas LONDON April 10 Now 10 Now that the the Dean of ot Westminster We ter la Is all 11 excited over the th belief bellet that the modern girl Irl can never neer become II a a good tood mother and nd now that Greece Gre c is II l preserving pre the th pur put purity ity of womanhood by arresting flappers whose who frocks frock are r moro more than eight Inches from the th ground though In Greece the Ibe mountain mountain- mountaineer mountaineers eer still frisk risk about In those thor In- In Intriguing In ballet skirts now In short hort since Ince churchmen and statesmen view with alarm alum the mental and racial facial makeup up 0 of the thel ladY dy of o 1826 and wonder what in inthe Inthe the world her children will be belike belike bIlk like It Is la a good rood time tim to consider Eva Lady ln law daughter w of Lord heading formerly baw Am-baw Am- Am Ambassador dor to the th States Statu h has s fashionably short hort frocks and nd fash fash- fashIonably fashIonably fashionably bobbed hair and an Idea which never occurred to the churchmen or the th state statesmen men either She also l o has three of the liveliest and best mannered best young youns lIters eters you ever sa taw saw Whence the th ARE Ane For the th Idea Is classes clua for tor edu- edu educating educating edu cating mothers and and fathers fathers- fathers which will leach te ch ch the th parents parent some some- somethIng something tom thIng about the art of oC bringing up upa upa a child Cl Classes It may be added which are attended each ch week by bya bya bya a throng of the th hatred bobbed bobbed mothers on whom the th men of church and nd state stat are r at the th mo- mo moment mo moment ment looking askance In the apple ppl green ireen drawIng room of ot her London house house-a hou tint lint of green ere n which beautifully seta eta otC oft fair h hair lr and fresh Eng Eng- Eng Eng- English English lish Ush Lady coloring Lady ex- ex explained ex her Idea There Ther are ar alt all 11 sorts of o clinic and nd classes tor for alum lum mothers Lad Lady explained but for educated and well well-to-do mothers moth there are r only only nur When I began to realize how many m ny mis- mis mistakes mistake mis mistakes take takes I was w making In bringing up my own children I began beian also alsoto alsoto J oto to wonder where here I could learn how bow to avoid these mistakes Its ns If all very well to say ay that thata a 8 mother knows by Instinct how to bring up her child Perhaps she he h does on broad general lines But thIs saying Ing was originated be- be be fore fare f re the tho th discovery of germs erm and the Inferiority complex AIDS MOTHEn Hence Henc Lady set lot about the task tuk t k of aiding the th mother moth r In- In In Instinct with the bc best beet t medical psychological l and educational ad- ad ad vie ail ice to be obtained In London She asked a a few fw friends If It theY would like to attend a series eric of lectures by scIentists scientist t on the th child and child psychology They hey re- re responded re responded with Ith enthusiasm its Jf so ao o difficult Lady L dy Er- Er Er lelch Kr-lelch leigh proceeded for even the themo most mOlt t sympathetic mother to va un- un understand understand what goes soci on In the mind of her child Her sympathy needs needa direction from both phy- phy physicians phy physicians ans and psychologists psychologist p l t And It if Intelligent understanding Is II difficult difficult cult for the th mother It Is II usually more e a si for tor the tho th father An eminent educator lectured to us UI u on the psychology p of ot the boy We W mothers mother decided that we would have havo tho the lecture repeated and Invited our husbands hu band to t at- attend at attend tend The Th husbands came very came reluctantly But to 10 the husbands astonishment they actually wore were In the lecture and now once a 8 month we have a lecture to which fathers father arc Invited ted And they come SPECIALISTS You Tou ate see the th big bif trouble about bringing up children has haa l been that nobody thought this the task th most moat mo t Important In the world required d any ny special s train train- training ing We ne demand specialists In all other lines Why shouldn't a mother and a 8 father have hav the benefit of advice from specIalists In this thi vital and delicate dut duty Referring to the th question of sh she said On physician who ho lectured to tous tous tou us said that hed he'd been sent ent to a school school where boys were thrashed and that he be was wa glad riad of ot It He believed there might now and then be b n a boy of at such uch sensitive nature that thra g would be harmful to him but he h thought there were few such boys bos Physical cal Phyl-cal cal punishment liter after all Is Issom some some- something I thing which must be b decided ac- ac according ac according I cording to the tho Individual child It looks look looks u as though Lady had found the answer anser to the th fran fran- frantic frantic frantic tic question what In the world will the next generation be The next generation It if the th Idea spreads p-eads p will be b a thousand per cent better than Its grand grand- grandparents grandparents parent crand-parent parents r |