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ANY parents, particularly those who have n strong code of behaviour, are inclined to be overshocked when small sons and daughters. stray way from the truth. But really, is it to be wondered at if a child draws on his imagina- tion when his nursery daya are coloured with such stories as Jack and the Beanstalk and the bedtinic tales that Mummy and Daddy love to tell?
Further, when he shows concern for poor little Red Riding Hood, he is assured that it is only a fairy story.
It is unreasonable, in these circumstances, to expect young children to understand exactly what is meant when told "not to tell stories."
So we must treat the children's lepses into make-boller with patience and understanding, and as they grow older they will develop a sense of values
and will realise that make-belleve must be kept for playtime and should have no part in real matters.
Changing Names
My son lives in a world of "make- believe. So Aruly does he believe in the characters which he takes on that he pets info wild tempers when we call kim by his own name.
MY advice is that you should leave
this alone, na your boy is not yet five. He will probably sulgrow this habit once he goes to school, and, if at present he prefers to be called "King Richard" or "Dick Turpin," it will do no harm to humour him.
Ho is daing you the honour of in- cluding you in the game, and deep down he knows that you are all pre- tending, but it is good fun.
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Children are very open really, wonder how many grown-ups ` have not lalu awake at night planning what they would do if they won a large sweepstake 'prize.
Because we keep these secret imagi
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make-believe.
hg to ourselves there is no reason why we should think Hitle of children who air their imaglalags openly. By cheeking their make-believe" we run the grave risk of making small folk Becretive.
The Practical View
We are very isolated, but my nearest neighbour and friend is now expecting u baby.. I wonder if I should tell my girl of thirteen about this.
HERE you have a golden opportunity
of explaining mailers quite simply
to your girl I niggest she should do something useful as regards the preparations, such na knitting vests or a frock.
There, to nothing like stressing the practical side of these matters; that leaves no time for speculations. At the same time 1, is a really big mistake to ennfuse Ignoraner with kiŋocence. By wrapping the whole subject up in cotton-wool one only creates a mystery quite unnecessarily.
Most Untruthful
Her teacher reports that my girl of fourteen continually tells her untruths.
She is the same at home.
FRIEND once told me that she was most untruthful until a school- teacher once told her a lovely legend truth from Olive Schreiner's famou Dave. "A South African Farm."
That led to her taking a much wider view of the whole subject. "Not tell- Ing untruths" widered out Into a Eearch for Truth, cost what it might.
Tis a well-known fact that women together talk, to a large extent, about clothes. It is equally a fact, but very much hushed-up fact, that men to- gether are also apt to touch on the subject of dress.
One can hardly imagine a man saying: "I saw the cutest little remnant of heather tweed to-day and just couldn't resist buying it." But they do say something like "I've just bought a new suit, but I think the revers are too wide, The salesman said it's the latest thing."
Women are also known to dis- cuss their underclothes. How and where one gets the nimlest bit of silk and lace for a song: caml- knickers
chemiso versus
and panties, whether to wear black under black frocks-a million and one things about fingerle.
Stylish Underwear
Now a man will not discuss his underclothes. And why? Because for many years men's underwear 'has al- ways been the same. At 11 or 40-tho same shape, the same material year in, year out.
And now, although men's underwear has been for some time past at a staga -no, I am not going to say of undressi ---where there la no more need to speak of those articles with bated breath and blush of shame, or not at all, tradition dles hurd
As a matter of fact, there's real style in men's underwear lo-dny.
I am not suggesting that they are adorned, with lace or embroidery nor that theirs is a queation of the smart man wearing blue under a blue suit. But he can get his underwear in many colours and materinis, styles and t Lings.
Take, for instance, Wolsey under- wear. They make many styles and colours, in the finest, sofient wool.
And don't imagine that inen's under- garments are shapeless in these days, Far from it.
Hard-Wearing
There's a pride in the fit of the gar- ments they turn out. They are specially knitted, not cut, to shape. Everything of theirs is fully fashioned.
That means their garments are shaped in the making to ni liko a glove with no wrinkles or rucks, and will really keep their shape through years of hard wear.
Now, with women's lingerie, wear is often a secondary consideration. With men, wear naturally comes more to the
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I believe that she never told a le from that day, and this change of att}- tude towards the whole question has led to, her becoming a fearless spokes- man for the weak and amicted.
Try to get your daughter to take this larger view of Truth, and I am coufl- dent that you will help her to conquer this fault.
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I have been obliged to obtain divorce front my husband who has now Temarried. How can I explain things
fle was. to my two small children? very fond of them.
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[UDGING by the dignified tone of your letter I am sure that the handling of this matter is in safe hands, but I realise that such situa tions are particularly difficult when both parents are fond of their children. Your Bttle ones are too young for
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the matter to be explained to them on its true footing; it will probably be best just to say that their father has gone away, and to add that they must look after you for the present.
Toddler's Menu
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My toddler is difficult Deer his dinners. How could I tary kis fare? Age 19 months.
TRY these suggestions for a week's diners: Monday, one tablespoon. ful of lightly-cooked steak, cut up small with a sharp knife; one table spoonful of green vegetable; one small potato: cornflour shape' with jelly.
Tuesday, one tablespoonful of flaked white sea-fish or a small dab, one tablespoonful of well-cooked green vegetable: one amall~potuto; stewed fruit with a teaspoonful of cream. Wednesday. enc tablespoonful of lightly-cooked and finely-milnced liver; ano tablespoonful of leved carrots; one potato. Milk pudding.
Thursday, scrambled sheep's brain, green vegetable and tato; stewed frult and cream. Frne steamed tillet of plaice, one espoonful of greens, one small potalb; milk jelly.
Baturday, amall mutton cutlet. free from fat and cut up findly; greeti vegetable or caulidower, one aminli potato: milk puddlig, Junday, shav ings of the joint, gröčer vegetable, one Fin potato; slewed fruit and cream.
Noisy and Troublesome
My little girl is specially trouble- some at school, har teacher tells me. She lived with her Grannie for two years and was rather spolk.
TOATHER that your little daughter
is now once more in your care. She will soon get over this early spoiling if you are firm and patient with her now, Plan her day carefully so that she has a regular routine with time for open-air play and plenty of sleep. A regular routine is a good antidote to spoiling and lack of wise discipline.
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Hardworking Hands
BUSY hands can be kept suit and
unblemished it few simple precautions are taken.
Hasty washing and careless drying most of the hands are among the fruitful sources of trouble. So a bowl of ontmeal should always be kept by the side of the washbasin. and the hands duied with this after washing.
After a particularly dirty Job, soak the hands in olive oil before washing, and the dirt will come off very easily." Avold the use of washing-soda. Soop flakes are much kinder to the hands. But if soda has been used in the washing-mediately after. An water, rub a lotion into the hands excellent one can be made by mixing four parts of milk to one of glycerine.
Keep a piece of lemon by the sink, and if a little salt is added to this, it will remove the most obstinate stains.
Where the nails are inclined to be brittie, the nail varnish should be removed each night, and the nails should be soaked in almond oil. drying Nail varnish has
very #t efect, but the oil counteracts this, besides keeping the cuticles soft and pllable.
A Quick Transformation
Sometimen is
it
necessary achieve very quick results. An invitation to a party may arrive un- expectedly, and the hands must look their best
Here is a certuin method of effect- ing an overnight transformation, and, extra trouble once in a while, the involved will not be grudged.
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Make a bath of hot olive oil, and of add glycerine in the proportion one tablespoonful of glycerine to two of oil. Soak the hands in this upward lotlon, massaging with
and the wrist, movement towards pulling the fingers as if in the act of donning gloves. Spread the Angers Close and upen out and bend them. the hands with the fingers spread out.
Continue the treatment for about twenty minutes at least. If there is a tendency to enlarged joints in the Angers, half an hour's treatment is advised. The hands should next be washed in luke warm water to which the juice of a lemon has been added. Finally apply a pack of honey and torax, slipping on a pair of loose white cotton gloves, which will act as bandages, and allow the pack to do its work overnight.
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In the morning, wash in from English homes and the import store Mohicans, has been restored to trade is practically ended. This is his post in front of a tobacco shop which has been softened a result of the prohibition of the im- here after an absence of several addition of a bag of oatmeal, and, port of all birds of the parrot species weeks. The wooden Judian, tamiliar given the usual manicure, the hands imposed in 1930 "to prevent the relie of the past, was taken to a re-will be as soft and dainly, spread of the infectious disease pair shop for a new cost of war paint most fastidious woman could desire.
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Of course, underclothes are not the only things this firm makes. Bocks, cardlanna, pullovers, etc., all made of pure, soft wool for hark wear in multitudo of styles and sizes,
For two shillings the stronger sex can invest in a pair of socks, ribbed, marled or plain, in any one colour, with the knowledge that if they shrink in washing or fail in normal wear a now pair will be forthcoming free.
We have all heard of the dour looks with which the nicest woman mesto, in the same room, a frock Identical with hers.
Well, I am not going to any that the same flerca anger seether in a manly bosom when he sees his socks on sono i
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other man. But the situation is certainly a mite embarrassing. Now, Wolsey are rather clever over that. They have many, many designs. But they are all exclusive to them- aelves. Thus the duplication risk i reduced to a minimum.“
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So. Monsieur can choose himself a sock with just the pattern to suit his suit (oh, dear!) and his taste.
Then there are pullovers and pullovers. Here again I must put this firm into the first class for wear, style, range and value, and --very important-FIT.
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In these, too, the garment is fully fashioned and knitted to ahape so that not a wrinkle will mar its anrtorial perfection.
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