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Show I A re You an Old Granny? PROF. M'KEEVER ASKS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION " And Suggests That Childless Parents Enliven Their Homes by Adopting a Child or Two. I- By Dr. WmA. McKeeveiv One of the Nation's BcnI-Iviiowii Sociological So-ciological Writer. I -oHIL.DL,ESS marired couples arc S always In danger of becom-ing becom-ing old grannies. I . Oi'lon 11 tic! them taking lifo too easy. Things about their place arc loo fixed and unchangeable, reminding one of fine pictures or wax figures. The household is always apic and span and to them a speck of duster dust-er a stray raveling- is "just horrible." horri-ble." They sometimes groom themselves them-selves and their things go muc,h that it hurts you to observe their misery when things arc out of order. So, I say that such people aro in danger of becoming "old grannies." They have not enough to love out-Fide out-Fide themselves, end not enough to sacrifice for. When I call at their place 1 always wish a bunch of little lit-tle lots might cone trooping in and scratch their furniture and scatter things about their floor. What an ugly place a home is with no children in it. How barren bar-ren and hollow its echoes. I peep in and out from one apartment to , another, half expecting' to hear a waking infant break into a cry. or to. see a happy two-year-old rush forward with outstretched arms. Then if' something of this' kind does not happe-i I sometimes feel o that the place is haunted, filled with ghosts of the boys and girl3 who ought to be there. Have yu seen the proud face of s r . mother watching her slx.cen- ycar-old groom himself long and carefully for the party? Have jou seen . a happy father tensing his twelvc-ycar-old and toying with her streaming locks while she was making a big pan of fudge over tho kitchen lire? Have you seen these two playing bed-time hidc-and-scck. with their f. threc-ycar-old and five-year old'' Have you seen a six-weeks lnlanl cuddling up close to lis mother's breast and nursing Its way off into quiet baby dreamland'.' "Well, what of It?" you ask N'ow. all this ought to take the "old granny" out of your system and make your heart ache for some children chil-dren to come and live In your home "Why not get a baby and have it for your very own? If one should not come to you then buy one. borrow one or beg 'one. The country is full of. homeless babies that would exactly ex-actly fit into your babyicss home Bring thoso two affinities together Children not only keep tho household house-hold young, they keep the world young. Without them life would soon become a stale fixed routine, and we would all fall into a set of "old granny" habits of thinking and believing. . But thank goodness for the chjl-.dren chjl-.dren to come In and scratch the furniture, to throw things about the floor, to yell and shake up our stiffening nerve?, to Jerk us out of the stale ruts, to keep us from all becoming "old grannies." Now really, wouldn't you like to hae about six of your own, you childless child-less married couple? |