Show CHILD REFUGEES child refugees sent lent from england to so america for safety offer this country the greatest opportunity in hist history r to promote international friendship kathleen norris warns 1 that has it is terribly important import aits that these children chi 1 dren receive unusually y kind and considerate treatment they are living in in a foreign land land among total strangers with different customs after all she points out they hey are only children with childrens d r s temperament rame n 1 ill manners and ho homesickness ness and cribs and vegetable soups the foster mother may in iii some cases have to deal with temperament with lack of training with perhaps a total ignorance of politeness and manners with homesickness and strangeness and unhappiness happiness mi all these children wont come from the b better ter homes 0 W we e have many ese foh rne ase 0 of th those 0 fortunate rt u b babies a bles alre already a dy the ones who could co come m e ov over e r w with i th a good nurse in char charge g e a and n d a are r e rapturously absorbed by rich grandmothers and friends most of the children who are coming will behave much a as S 0 our ur own american children would if they were suddenly transplanted from new york or boston or any other american city and suddenly transported to england ernest thompson seton once olce gave in one of his bis books the jungles rule if its strange its hostile and children still retain many of the instincts of the jungle in handling these guests we must use infinite patience and tact and an entirely unreasonable amount of 0 kindness they be dis disciplined ch or subjected to ru rules led even as much as our own children are no woman who wants to shelter one should undertake it unless she is ii willing to regard the experiment with the utmost seriousness keep arrivals together my own hope is that america rather ratler than scattering the small english arrivals will keep many of 0 them together in something as like a great boarding school as possible will find good hearted 3 englishwomen englishwoman English women who will understand th them em and act acl as nurses cooks guardians teach ers tor for them that would seem to me a tar far truer hospitality than i the he seemingly kindlier one of div giving ng them to individual foster mothers in ID scattered homes there must be in our various cit les ies many ir empty ty buildings that could easily be fitted with cots and lockers and refectory tables and equipped very simply to meet the needs of small children there are certainly in all our communities experienced mothers doctors diet specialists to keep an eye on the visitors and be sure that they have plenty of outside pleasures and excursions cur handle with mass efficiency we should make this an undertaking entirely separate from the ordinary line of our charf charities tle and sympathies and handle it with amass masi efficiency and with the proper pub lacity to prevent the difficulties that will be inevitable if the smiths and the bakers and the johnsons all are permitted to stretch out welcoming hands to small londoners Lon doners who within three weeks will have eiery every member of the household in a state of complete bewilderment and dla dis corn comfort fort these little wai war scared folk are a sacred responsibility we want them always to remember their american visit as a time cf af happiness ness and affection we want them to go back as so many separate ambassadors bass adors of friendship bet between w aeh one great country and another |