OCR Text |
Show RAINY DAY FUN. j But even whero this Is not possible children chil-dren may bc mndo happy at home w'lth-out w'lth-out disorganizing tho wholo household, for If a child Is interested there Is far less danger of getting Into pranks than when ilme hangs heavy and there Is llmo for the planning of mischief. For little children thoro Is nothing that l takes the place of picture books, and when theso may bo made by the children themselves them-selves the value and pleasure are trebled. One mother saves all of hor old magazines mag-azines for rainy afternoons. In a drawer In her desk which Ih locked on bright days arc pIctureR, blunt scissors, paste and 3crapbooks of rod, whlto and blue cambric.., Tho children are never allowed to amuse themselves with those on sunny afternoons, after-noons, when they can play out of doors, but they aro kept for tho times jtvhcn, perforce, per-force, they aro In tho houso for an afternoon after-noon which otherwise might prove Idle and- uninteresting. On such an occasion tho books, the old mogazlnos, scissors and paste aro taken from their hiding plaeo, and tho children have tho happiest kind of a time "writing stories," for instead of making Just ordinary ordi-nary scrapbooks they arc encouraged to glvo. some sort of scquonco to their pictures. pict-ures. Soldler and Red Cross nurses figure In many of tho stories, and aeroplanes nnd submarines havo their place, and in order lo stimulate a really Intelligent interest In what they are doing the mother mildly censures or enthusiastically praises their efforts. This mother, who Is a bit old fashioned and makes companlonH of her growing boys and girls, says sho finds, however, that nothing takes tho plncc with them of story telling or reading aloud. "I well remember," alio says, "when I was a little girl what a Joy It was In tho evenings, when my mothor would gather her brood about her and read aloud to us stories, biography, history'. |