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Show I Make Your Child's I Vacation Interesting j THE really practical mother sho who has her children's welfare at heart-will heart-will not permit her littlo ones to spend their long vacation period In absolute abso-lute idleness. Instead, she will glvo to them certain light tasks daily and will encourage en-courage them to perform them. Every small citizen dollghts In receiving receiv-ing a miniature set of garden tool3 and will use them faithfully If ho is encouraged encour-aged to do so, xnd the fact that he has a tract all his own" under culUvation will mako him feel quite important, and he will tako a keen prldo in doing his work In the garden. "Work and Play. Tho indolent, "I-don't-want-to-do-any-thing" type of small citizen should be taken In hand and given firmly to understand under-stand that he, too, must do his bit in hl3 own small way, and this decision should obtain until, nnd even after, school reopens re-opens In the autumn. Tho small women of Uic household should also be allotted their share of the homo tasks. Setting tho table, dusting a room or holping "do" tho dishes will make an idle hour pass much moro quickly for the little girl who "doesn't know what to do." If tho mother believes In tho good, old fashioned Idea of teaching girls how to properly keep houso, sho will find her small daughter's vacation day a gbod time to 'begin. Any mother who foolishly concludes that tho front porch or parlor la tho proper place for girls of high scnoot ago Is assuredly assur-edly lacking in good judgment and common com-mon sense The young woman who Is an authority on all tho new musical hits, who Is familiar famil-iar with the latest knitting stitches, or who la singled out as the most graceful dancer In her set may. without any question, ques-tion, be tho sourccof keen satisfaction to every member of "her set" but if this girl's lot Is cast in tho ranks of the toll- I era she will later on, when she marries Jj provu anything but such a shining light IV in her own home. Sho Is Just the type which, Instead of becoming a helpmate proves an actual hindranco and a drawback draw-back to tho man who marries her. Therefore, There-fore, no matter how clover or smart she 13, the practical side of a growing girl's education should not be neglected. Touth, aa all must admit. Is a period of wonderful promise, but with tho flctlng years much of it3 glamour fades, and tho mother who would sco her young tons nnd daughters develop Into ambitious, self-reliant men and women must, while they aro sUll children, teach them how to work and to find contentment within themselves. In tho olden days tho country boy and girl looked forward to his or her vacation as a most productive period. The rural youngster who did not know all about huckleberry and blackberry picking and their respective market values was hardly to be found, and many a "Sunday Buit" wa3 purchased on tho proceeds of the owner's berry picking during tho vacation days. Valuable Vacation. With the closing of school no child ousht to bo allowed absolute freedom to do or act Just aa he sees fit Idleness isn't good for any one, neither for child nor for grown-up, nnd it invariably results In some sort of distressing situation. So. prudent Is tho mother who, now that f school has closed, maps out ways and means by which her littlo ones may ts I occupied for a certain period daily and j sees to It that there shall be no sweniag j from this rule. I Pampering a youngster, "waiting upon him hand and foot." aa the old saylos f runs, and letting him have his own way In all things will eventually result In hla .V becoming downright selfish nnd ungrate- jC ful, and this lack of restraint may, later 7 on in life, cause him to develop Into a bit j of human driftwood, an unfortunate, use- less and unhappy member of society. j |