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Woman Today
Mental Health Is Both Hands For Make-Up Everyone's Business
By CATHERINE MACKENZIE
Your mental health is probably pretty sound if you got along with yourself, and with other people, nut your best effort into whatever you do, and Bet satisfaction out of it. This is a frap condor- ing of a definition given by Nina Rideneyr, Ph, D.
Asked. "What is mental Its not a new idea that the way health?" Dr. Ridenour gaid that each of us feels and thinks and The hardest thing to do in con- gets influences the people around veying the meaning is to over-s, and Dr. Ridengur holds that Line the association with "menit) ; qó one needs to keep this in mind illnes ur, as many people say, more than workers dealing with
"being crazy."
parents, is not unnat- It is a curious thing, she re- marked, that people who care o Frent deal about the mental health of children often forget all
hers and mothers. She sold: #hout the mental health of fu-
for
The association urat, he said, recalling that one of the first legge unifúrtakings Of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, in, the Nineteen Twenties, was the establishment of chlid guidance clinics, and that| these were for treatment of sino- tionally disturbed children.
Parents Are People
Is perhaps to the point for She pointed put that much pre-rectors, teachers, ministers, sent-day psychiatric understand purses and others who are trying lue of all children, and the is help parents, occasionally to reatisation that prosentien remind theinselves of the clene, better than exps, s'emmed frata|parents are people"
children. F
that experience with "problemi” And yet even bẹ too Meantime, scientific research intentional to sugest that they intoselves that parents child developineyt, éxperience in were ouUE children. Thay were murgy schools, in public health children with the same frustra- nar ing. in social work, he Hots and deprivations and con- town new light on ways and lets that they are now trying to means of establishing good men-flp their children to overcome. fal health, and keeping it gour. Sears from their eary handling
Gradually, professional workers
showing up are now
in
thei have realised that mental health handling of their children." is not merely thele business--|| In general, she says, there is is everyone's business (Tlay've sume tendency to underrate two chal in for years, but many of vor, motivating forces in the us haven't paid attentibus.)
behaviour of parquets, namely. Lite Puz
good intentions
and their anxieties.
Fays
Positive Aspect
One of Dr. Ridenour's present Most parents want to do the tasks, as director of the newly best they eas for their children, stablished division of education even when they go about it the of the Nation Committee for wrong way; and she adds that ne Mental Hygiene, is to emphasise tormous number of parental this positive aspect.
When sheeriors--maybe most of them-are that mental health is every due not to indifference or malice ane's business, she is asked right and not even primarily to igner away, "Where do
you start
anet but to their own personality "Start
place and every problems and their anxieties. is her answer. "Star in Heighbourhoods, schools, churches, courts, wherever
you
rre a chance as a neighbour and citizen to do
useful piece of werk.”
place,"
ппу
Here are a few of her exan ples: Meybe a family needs help with a difculty, does not know where to go.
You can direct then to u Conseling service.
Or maybe there's no place for you can help to get such a
started Perhaps your court needs
Tamilies to go. nice
To the busy professional work- er Dr. Ridenour suggests that the parents in search of help fall in to two general groups and des- cribes them this way:
The one is tho! reasonably well-adjusted, reasonably con- deni, reasonably un-neurotic darent, whose mistakes are due chiefly to not knowing.
This person can learn, can ac- cept suggestions, can follow di- rections without too slavish ad- Herence, hus
good judgment and chiatric consultation, or special uses 11. With this person, court procedures to protect chil-physicton or teacher can accoin- dren; perhaps your neighbour can
lot in a little time. be helped to tolerate a bunch of children racing through a yard.
short, adds Dr. Ridenour, "Luke look at what needs to be done around you. Almost any- thing you can mention that will eager,
htt
Obviously the first, and hardést,
the
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WOMEN IN BANKS
Bank staff officials in London, out to study their customers' banking habits, have found that the longest counter qucucs are often in front of the women cashiers.
Monagement of one of the Big Five says: "The public like the personal touch women give the job. They have a flair for remembering the little things
whether a customer
has his cheques cashed in pound notes, tens, or silver, for instance."
This month the success story of on the women, who sometimes had women in banking-an all male to buy a complete outfit in danp profersion until they gate-crashes black.
it in the 1914-1918 war-went one Lookltig back, M Darby stage further when the Bank of thinks Miss Kim MacArthur, now England removed the last mar-retired and living at Parkstone, ringe bars told their women Dorset must have been the fini employees that they will not now woman bank cashier. She was lose
their permanent status, and behind be counter of a London subsequent loss of superannuation, bank during the first world war when they get married.
and managers thought I was
Today Bliss Darby who is A
secretary in a Pall Mall bank, sull
thinks, after 31 yents service,
So many further opportunities such a risky thing to ne'emit are zing considered for women that they doubled the fidelity In- by the leading banks that it pro-surance for all their women bably won't be long before others cashiers. follow the Bank England's Lead. not only the back-room mechanical tobe are open to them, but cashier jobs, secretaryships, more Kentor appoint accountancy and income-tax work
Bright young 21-year-old' Anne- eve available to women.'
Doild is one of the young ones who Here are some of the career who still has her way to make. wirls seen at the food office of Lloyds Bank the other day. Most She came as a clerical worker 18 of them worked, or are working, months ago and is working hard their way up
men's are
pornities to women, that banking offers first rate op-
"Then there The xixious, tense, neurotic parent who may know better but who is the vic- Um of his own maladjustment..
This is often the 'good' parent, ond conscientious but improve human relations is A devertheless a continual frustra step toward good mental health.* tion to, the specialist
With this parent, reasoolpe anil place to start is with ourselves. explanation seem to fall on deaf
ents, and
be for more often she, since it is usually the mother who fakes the child the doctor and 10 School) constantly
creates new problems her handling
in This kind of mother often wor- fles
excessively,
Dr. Mabel and as
37 years old,ministrator.
Board an Huschika says, 'You might as well
this bank and fell a mother to go home and dark and rasy-checked, came to
the tank да и урива clerical pointment in fower her blood pressure as to
werker and has gone ahend on Dorothy. Swan, sinall, amiling and fell her to go home and stop her own initiatike to her present fficient, in the girl who has it. Worrying.""
officer at tay post as the only women in woman welfare
section Lloyds she look after all women charge of an income-inx in her bank.
sla and helps them forward in their careers.
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It is sometimes possible to con- vince such a mother" that she fins no culise for worry," says Dr. Ridenbur; then again one cannot get this across.
Maybe the best one can da is to give her friendliness pad as- surance.
Horan into the ranks" to earn promotion as a trus: ad-
She has male staff under hor supervision, and few women know more about income-tax problems than Doris,
There is just one
course.
1
She worked her way up from the bottom and is only the second woman to hold a Board post.
Girls who Bre
accepted for Hard On Thom bank jobs, oth-In London and In the provincce, are given free She thinks it important for
machine Miss Ivy Darby, gentle and training in
operating. professional workers to under- dignified came to the bank dur- Cut-of-town girl get free hostel. doring their accommodation with LEXA you can have that stund this type of mother, song the 1914-1918 war. In those white delicate beauty that all that they do not themselves feel days if any important member
Later if a girl wants to change or the bank executive died the women envy and men admire.rritated and defeated.
And here the
sore she repeated some
ktaff were expected to go Inis to shorthand 4pping and is con- LEXA le Non Greasy. Will not
corliér 'commerit
mourning. An allowance of 41 sidered kuliable by her depart-- holl clothes.
"In general, it is well for pea-
was given to them and this was mental chief this training is pro- Harmless to the most delicate
ple who work with parents to re-all right for the men but hard vided free. skin,
member the same things in hand- the parchts that they are trying about to got acrcse to parents Her handling of children.
"Den't reg. Don't scold. Don't shame or frighten. Be patient, be responsive, give encourage- ment. Sper out the causes, don't Islop with the symptom."
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