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Show fl Her Daughter and His Son J -A Great Married Life Story by 1 IDAH McGLQNE GIBSON ) AX INCIDENT Q C HILDHOOD I rciiif ruber distinctly the first time lhai I had an understandable Ulustltt- Hon of the attitude of tlx world to Ml ward ihe and mv moiher and, although It didn't make mneh impression then. It has alwav i stuck by me as perhaps one of the lest examples of that In-tolerarifK In-tolerarifK which made old Puritan fathers fa-thers burn at the stake, as witches those who had a different Idea of life M. 1 .and living than they. ne of my little companions ioid me with that unconscious cruelty of childhood IB sin- refused to go SWiWl-minp SWiWl-minp with me, ihuU'Mrs. Cameron has ui that, Slir- ( ould not understand whj mv mother allowed me to go swimming in a onc-plctfe bathing suit with a boy " Mrs. Cameron says,' declared the hud. 'that to allow you to he so Immodest Im-modest is positively crim-inal.' She hesitated n the word and when' I bluntly asked her What Vrlm-orirm p Inal' meant, sin i nswered 1 thinkj it means stealing or murder." r ll thai daj while 1 was swimming !' the words Immodest and "criminal" kept .IlKgtnpr Into my childish i-rrun and when I arrived home that nlirht. T asked my mother their meaning. wii. .in you wans co know, A nr.'." she asked. "Because,1 i answered with the di- j j lectnes.s of youth, which knows no J compromise. '"Mrs. Cameron says If you allow me to go swimming with i the boys. I'll have to take off my one- Hkf piece bathing suit, unless you want me to steal or murder What!" asked my mother in con-1 nBFjH sternal Ion jS4H "I don't understand! You haven't flB rot it right. Ann." And then my moth-I IH cr said, as though to herself, I srar'"- gfl ly thinl: that even a woman of Mrs ; Cameron's caliber would make a ro-I ro-I i i 'it. like t tin I ' I caught the word "caliber ' It too. was new and I immediately put down Mrs Cameron, Whom I had nev ! er seen, as B kind of female fountain that was always spouting words that dldnM mean anything : "Think again. Ann. get your story riKht " said my mother. "Rcmeniber this, my child." If you hav to repeat anything that someone, else hus said, you must be very careful to repeal .exact' as the. other person has said I lit. ; ; "And my htlil. I wish' you would T( member carefulh What i .ni saying, for much of the sorrow of the world has been Caused by thought loss people,: n pSatlpg speeches lneorrer tl . ' I am telling this Incident of my i hlldbood in detail, because, although I did not know it Hum, it was reallj my introduction into the grout world of morality and It also brought to me my first knowledge ot sex When my mother asked me to think Carefully, 1 tried ro remember the sen -J tense with "its unfamiliar words aAfl its unfathomable meaning Just as the . other child had told it to me if course, at the time, the whole, incident seemed of no prre.it import-1 aoce, It was Just a part of thr she told me and I told her," that 1 heard every day. But In aftr years, mv, memory of this Incident was vivid. Finally, With many hesitations, I: said, . "Well, Bstllle Renter said that Grace's mother ald that for you to allow me to be so-immodest was positively pos-itively criminal "1 asked Faille What 'cr minal" and 'immodest' meant and she said criminal' crimi-nal' meant murder and stealing and she thought 'Immodest' meant gollfg around naked." mother laughed merrily at this, hut when she ceased her face assumed in expression which told me vaguely that the incident meant more to her than I comprehended. Tomorrow Conventionalities. -I |