Show MOTHER AND CHILD AN THE SCHOOL Now approaches the day liay when hen mother must take tako Johnny or his sister to school for lor the first time Its It's a big moment That has always ways was been conceded but oddly enough ellough its bigness has always been thought of in relation to the Ule child Of OC course it Is obviously f a big moment for Cor little John ot or Mary this first 1 st sight or of a world worl so 80 tar lar removed from the tho home so differ differ- different enl ent from the sheltered thing to which so far Car In their short lives they have been accustomed Until that day the world meant just home and the people who com com- comprised the rho family Today like ver- ver veritable veritable juvenile they discover a whole universe or of which before they were Ignorant So much we have hao always real real- fired Ired about the childish ad I ot of the first day at school But Dut I how about mother molher herself Actual Actual- Actually I II I ly Its It's a greater adventure ad to than to Johnny according I to Edward Elwell Whiting in one I or of the current w womans woman's mans man's magazines who says sas When hen a mother takes the boy or girl to school the first day the ht sees a building with th many rooms and man many children The Tho children are of all ages and condl condl- I Somehow she lad had never thought of children except as parts or of the home Now she sees them themas as groping reaching eager laugh laugh- laughIng Ing Independent items In the ever ever- flowing stream of of humanity Probably every mother and fa- fa father ther has bas had bad this plaintive wish wish- that some miracle might come and halt the world indefinitely where it lei They would like forever to hear the tho laughter or of little girls and the outs s1-outs of boys playing in the back yard And until the school mo- mo moment moment ment comes It has been rather token for Cor granted that the world was standing still that they were parents that their children were children and that this condition of existence would endure The sad truth is that here is where parents so 80 often orten fall their children If their youngsters are eager what shall we cal the parent Who blundering In in- into to this new and disquieting con con- conception of the universe lags back hugging the delusion of the old hoping that refusal to accept the new will moan mean It a continual enjoy enjoy- enjoyment ment of the hal halcyon yon day that has passed The child goes on in his discoveries eries finds ever new worlds to ex ex- explore now new alien to combat perchance new toes foes to conquer But Dut always alwa's eager alwa's reaching out And the mother Will sho veal real lie Ize that her world wont won't stand standstill stand standstill still any more than the ph universe Will she keep fresh the mental state that will trill enable her herto herto to travel on with the child so that though it It be but but vicariously she ehe may share the tho eagerness of the young oung explorer and mentally at least join in the adventures that come dally to youths youth's expedition nn |