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MARIE
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 3,1939
STOPES MOPSY by GLADYS PARKER
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Is A Mother. Like You, She Plans Her Child, Keeps Him From Harm, loves Him. Some People Think That Her Ideas Are "Revolutionary." Do You Agree With Her To-Day?
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IRT pursues the housewife like landscape. And for that reason a fiend. Washing up after alone, it is due to the community every meal, cleaning grates after that they should be dressed for every fire, doorsteps, windows, bed-beauty and use. room china, staircases, clothes-
They should not add to the drab
Their limbs should only be so far covered as is necessary to keep them warm.
Though the starched white frock ugliness of formality so prevalent and pina fore. have gone out, and in cities. the gentleman who uses fourteen. starched white shirts a week-as did my own father-is now so rare, as to be a museum piece-neverthe- less clothes remain, a major worry to the mother of children.
Tommy has to wear a suit, collar, tie, shirt, socks-perhaps even gloves.
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The covering should show their shape and not hide it with hard an- gularity as do the stiff "suits" the poor mites proudly struggle into.
Replace these wretched "suits" with something sensible and gay. And all these items seem to have Far the best material is pure a positive attraction for dirt when wool, knitted by hand.
It is airy, they are combined with Tommy in-warm, washes in a moment or two, to that social unit, the unnatural and can be gaily coloured. "little gentleman."
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Poor children, looking so tidy 'and' Little boys of six and eight years smart, my heart aches for them old are put into grey pants "be- when Lsee them in the city streets cause they don't show the dirt." or in the park!
But that doesn't prevent real dirt Such immaculate (and hideously being there, on a garment difficult unnatural) appearance can only to keep "smart" if often washed. be achieved at the expense of two very precious things-their own natural desire for messy play and their mothers' peaceful leisure.
How would I dress boys? ». In scarlet, or green, or, orange knitted wool pants and open necked jerseys with their sleeves rolled up. They can be tubbed in a minute Why should boys, while still so or two every day or second day. young that their lovely little bodies: The very feel of lightness and are cupid-like, be put into the hide- ease in such clothes encourages ac- our embryonic form of grown men's tivity and that, is a joyous and still more hideous clothes?
[right thing. They make part of everybody's (Continued at foot of Next Col.)
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Tailored For Sports Or Street
Correct to a tee, and certain to usually costs a lot, and the lines. score on any tennis court. The are exactly right. Pleated skirt,. crisp tailoring has the effect that deep armholes and a bloused bodice.
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Have you ever stopped to look at sports. And the dress, on classic the grey drab, cloudedness
shirtwaist lines, is finished and tailored enough to wear to business.. group of young boys? Do if you
and on shopping trips.
have not.
Can you do so and not feel a pang that the young of MAN should in this period of rich pro- duction be made ugly by your false civilisation when he should be gay and radiant?---
As well as dressing the young boy in bright wool I would give him mud, earth, sand, clay, bonfires- and running water to mix with the Ilot
all the delightful "dirty". things boys naturally love, and which fewer and fewer of our boys, . fare allowed to enjoy.
The things that make dirt really dirty are the "germs" which it may, contain.
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There are so many varieties of them that they are the subject of a whole science--bacteriology—and, of course the study of germs is a large part of the science of medi- cine.
You cannot see them, because there isn't a single germ
of any known disease that is large enough' for the naked human eye to see.
All are impalpably small, but they have the most wonderful ca- pacity to reproduce themselves,
Good country soil, on the other hand--though it contains many bacteria on whose lives the healthy life of green plants may depend→ seldom contains germe harmful to human beings.
Distinguish between clean dirt and dirty dirt.
The germ laden dust of town; streets is really dirty: the caking mud of h country field is clean dirt. state them enjoy the clean dirt even if they are plastered from top to toe in mud. A sult-collar-tie- get-up in auch a state means nerve- rabking work. A woolly jersey and pante don't
There is a saying, “clothes make the
Let me pror >a>truer one m clothem destroy th
Linen, pique, sharkskin and flat. crepe are materials in which this. design tailors particularly well.