| Show homemakers P PAGE AGE marie M ogden the following lesson may help other mothers in regard to child problems and it is a fine thing to apply to adult cares and the bigger problems which may confront one today we have followed this ibis plan for the past few years and we know it works the following is one of a series of articles sent from the national kindergarten association in new york city and is entitled sleep on it 0 id heard beard that my friend alice wilson was wonderful in dealing with children but id never had bad a chance to see her with them until she came to stay with us I 1 had just taken on the job of stepmother step mother to three young children and was feeling like an inexperienced workman in a powerhouse er but I 1 had a passionate desire to make a success of the venture getting the youngsters to bed is one ol of my hardest tasks I 1 said to her they seem to be particularly conscious of all their troubles at that hour let me see them to bed ventured our visitor r who had played mother to her own brothers and sisters for years gladly I 1 agreed lut but just for once she smiled understandingly I 1 took a book into the living room but could not concentrate for how could I 1 help listening there were the usual objections 1 I dont want to go to bed it eight yet just let me finish this I 1 heard alices quiet voice in answer but not the words then bobbys bobbye strident voice was lifted above the noise of the running bath water im not going to that school again the teachers mean she kept rne me in when it was bert who threw the ink ball my temper was ruffled surely that matter mater should be looked into and our boy have justice ar or if lie he were telling a lie he should be punished I 1 listened breathless for alices answer but she began to sing at the end of the gay little ballad the childs voice piped up 1 I dont have to go to school do I 1 well see in the morning bobby came the pleasant plea nant voice and another song mingled with splashing giggles and chuckles then seven year old mary was heard from f rom 1 I dont want to take music lessons any more I 1 P cause fred smith pushed rhe me I 1 I 1 down and h hurt urt my knee she I 1 complained look just as I 1 thought that smith boy was far too big and rough to be with little children id bet beff tex explain to alice I 1 rose to interfere but stopped at the door alices soothing voice was saying lets not think about that now this lovely cool ointment will make the knee better I 1 went back and sat down but was not satisfied such slipshod ways of dealing with problems were not right by and by my friend came into the room the children want to say good night to you she said smiling As I 1 alsoe to go I 1 determined to answer their questions or at least to inquire into them show my interest but when I 1 felt the happy peaceful atmosphere of the chili drens room I 1 too decided to wait until morning back in the living room I 1 asked dont you think that such worries is as bobbys bobbye and marys should have some attention yes she answered but problems have a way of getting solved during sleep in the morning a better solution often presents itself than could be reached the night before the way students arrive at answers to difficult questions in mathematics I 1 suppose I 1 said half teasingly just so my trend frend agreed 1 I learned long ago that it is best to sleep on it before making important decisions about anything 0 good sound advice in the following from the pen of george B brownell one gets out of life only what he puts into it prosperity and happiness can never come out of a mind constantly thinking poverty and failure or a mind filled with fear and worry there is always room for the success of every one one need never fear competitors you have a place to fill seek and ye shall find always and ever il you are persistent you will find no one can keep you out or crowd you out of your place it is the law the way you climb to success is on the ladder of right thinking and right relationship with god 1 one must get behind the clutter worry and care of the sense mind one must become superior to the superficial thoughts and beelin feelings s entertained by the average mind when you shift your thinking above the mortal level to the divine your thought is one with that thought chih fashioned worlds into being shakespeare said an interesting thing and true he who thinks with the many must often think wrong the thoughts and affections of the heart go into the building of the spiritual edifice that permanent body that survives the passing of many physical vehicles 3 thinking in the heart is right thinking that thinking never descends to the ignoble and never injures any man 0 two more questions answered in the walter guest column from which we have quoted before I 1 where is the city destroyed by boiling water probably the most terrible destruction st ever visited on a city befell antigua original capital of guatemala it was inundated by boiling water through eruption of mt agua at the foot of which city it lay the crater was a vast lake when molten lava welled up from the earth the lake was turned into a boiling caldron the attending earthquake shattered the walls of the crater and the boiling lake poured on the helpless city 2 which is the deepest canyon grand canyon is vast and dazzling but the biggest canyon is little known because it lies in an isolated mountainous region without roads or railroads it is hell river canyon utah so wide and deep grand canyon would be lost in it |
