Show GRANDMOTHERS AND THEIR RIGHTS Tomorrow Is Old Folks day Which reminds us of ot grandmother Sometimes one is tempted to feel fed that It is s to too bad all grand grand- grandmothers grandmothers mothers do not do-not not belong to th the jazz age Too bad because after all ail the hair bobbed-hair playing golf jaZZ Isn't grandmother Isn't going to let her hel cell be hurts hurt But ut what of ot the grandmother from whom the years lean have hae taken too too much much who are t too o fral frail to hold bold their own against an aggressive world Agedo Age do dos does s cruel cruel things to people sometimes It leaves the Inner life llie the same game the personality just justas justas as strong as ever but It slows the perceptions ever eo BO- BO little dulls the vision and and even even even makes the mind 8 al slower In the uptake The personality Is as keen and clear as ever eer But the masterful masterful- ness Is gone one These are the grandmothers who who are bossed by their middle aged strong minded strong managing daughters True It Is that this kind of ot man man- management management Is often accompanied by scrupulous care Mother Is 15 given every comfort every luxury every good thing save sae one and that one is 15 worth all the rest put together It Is the matchless matchless comfort of ot be being ing log herself the priceless freedom of doing as she ahe pleases the In- In Incomparable In Incomparable comparable luxury of making her own wn decIsions scans menu ana or orders ders veal Teal A frown from the minded strong minded middle-aged middle daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter Not veal you ou know that's hard lIard to digest take take the ham daughter orders order Mother looks look abashed like a hurt child But there Is le no fight In her tired old eyes She had been fought down too many times Umes by her strong strong minded minded middle aged managing daughter She looks crumpled and submits But says the be managing daugh daughter r would you let her make maka herself herselt sick sick It Is because I love her that I Insist that she Bhe eat the right thing and doesn't doe nt overwork In the tho garden Would you ou let her eat the veal nal and die you ask Yes a thousand times yes es Let Letany Letany Letany any woman who who has reared A family and made her own deci deci- decisions dec dec- decisions alone for 70 year years go on makIng th them m with her ber head up If It It kills kl her Let her be herself and live bile the she lives rather than thin add a few straggling years years to tl a life me that thatIs thatIs Is 15 crushed by domination Yes by all alt means meana let her catch pneumonia In In the wet garden If you ou haven't sense enough and tact enough to send her rubbers out to her by one ono of ot the youngsters so that she will have hac them wIthout knowing she fihe Is being bossed If It you cant can't make a gentle sug suggestion about the veal as you OU would to another adult of your our own age let her eat thereof and anddie anddie anddie die by all aU means Let ut her die rather than treat her like a child But mother you say tills this this under your breath breath breath Is 1 just a It Uny liny bl bit childIsh Dont Don't Dont Don't be too sure about that Now and then ago does affect the mind But Dut But more often It merely slows down some somo of ot the the reactions hardens a few few fixed filed Ideas crystal crystal- crystal izes I Izes a and you OU mistake that for childishness It isn't Down underneath the old fine personalIty Is la just as clear as ever everand everand everand and that personality winces under undera a force that It cant can't quite cope with the force of the middle middle- middle aged aged strong minded strong minded managing son or daughter |