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Show IT - Her Daughter and His Son A Great Married Life Story by IDAH McGLONE GIBSON -M . i N I TI M.lifls always loved to hear and m H my mother five that little u rgl) H l.i ugh of hers. She crinkled up th H flesh arouml her even and turned lip Vll the corner of hf r moth n pretMiy lnHfl that I always wanted to kles them. EH And bo 1 wanted to repeal the chllulsh H definition- of 'criminal" and "imm'l- H to make he r laogB again. H I Hut she held out her hands to me H I and nfdt "Coma hen to me. Ann." H I She took i'ie on h r lap ami after i H I had sntlciiled my desire by kissing her H I on eaoh tide ot her mouth and for H I gQpd measure closed each of her eyes HH I with kjsses, he continued with a lltr BH I tie igh. ii. Ann. sou queer child I letln i 1 ' : would ncvei grow H I older, for when ( see the time coming H I nearer and nearer when I shall have I to explain, my heart prows cold." j H I I (mi ' ly put my enr down to! H I her hearty which, through her thin L Why, mother. It Ian 1 'old a bit. It's I I H m La w hen it mys T-love-you-Ann. I-Iove. jejBH ' H9 ns I hurled my head In her soft bosom. H She boot down and kissed my fore-! H lieml arid with her mouth close to my ,. w - i M i child if I H could only Injure that you woujd hi-1 H find th- hear:.-; of those you! B love warm and comfy, and laying I-j - lovc-you-Ami.'I would be ve ry happy." jimmW Then she went hack to the txplana- iH t.'on and th it's another thing I re-i HHJ members d in after years. My mother BBJ always explained things to me and Bh "'Criminal.' my child, OS Mrs. Cam-. BB eron used it. means 'wickedness.' Mrs. D I'ameron meant to say that 1 was a wicked woman to allow you to goj V swimming m h rc yo i would be - en In PBB one-piece Milt by the little boys. She B ntly considers that 'Immodest.'", BflD "But, mother, boys eo swimming Hj where I can see them and their 6he J suit-, are shorter at both ends! 1 than mine" HB "Yea 1 know. dear. I know, but you J a little girl." a "Then some things are not wicked I for boys, but are wicked for little girls. are the; moth'-r-'" My inothor's tfgswer as she held me .closer, wjc.-. "Although the world has taught that for many hundreds of ar,. your mother does not think so. She thinks things that are wicked I Cor little girls are Just as wicked for ('ii beya Pej&isps sht Is wrong, but that's the res SDn she has permitted n to wear n bathing suit thai would allow your limb full play and. perhaps, per-haps, .la's e you from an accident." Aid I can beat any boy on the I beach swimming." I said prodiy. 1 I told Jim Callahan this morning., 1 when h eglfl h Wag going to be a life saver when he grew up, that I'd hi one, too, and help him. but moth-: drar. what did she meat) When rtif said you allowed me r j br immodest-?" I "That, too. my dear, is a matter ofi opinion. There are many things, as you will learn when you grow older, ' Ann. which the world has sild, i v -man must not lo,' while It places no such restrictions on a man. "Modesty, I have always considered, i my rhIIW, to be like contentment. To J the purei all things are pure and you Will learp when yoj begin to studv your history that what is consldeied modest In some sountrlei is considered I very Immodest In otherp. "I am afraid, deaf little daughter, thai Mrs Cameron has unconsciously planted In your mind the seed of copy .entloiial modesty, which Is nothing but sex consciousness." .mi hi; unu ii no an uun i, said, "she can't plant nothing I Just hate her. I Just hat her," and I threw n. arms ;ihout my mother's neck and j I. in st out In hysterical crying. for, while 1 did not know the meaning ofj1 "conventional modesty" or sex consciousness." con-sciousness." my ehtldlsb soul rose In r. volt, bei-iuse I !;new that our little! World, the world which began at the i C.imcron's end of the shady street i with the bg pillars and reached to our humble collage at the other end. .v.us blaming m muther for some- i thing i n mokho Kenneth Hnlecy. |