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Rockefeller Is Right About Children-Winifred Black

HOW PARENTS' ACTIONS Fishing For Love

INFLUENCE YOUNG

It's Not So Much What Older Folks Say, as What They Do That Moulds Children's Character.

OHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., declares that chlidren are going to do what their parents

do.

did and not what their parents to them

True for you. Mr. Rockefeller, and may you

nerez speak a word less true.

The school teacher was talking to me about

it the other day.

"I wonder if parenta realiza what mirrore children are," said the school teacher.

"Now that little girl in the front seat there; worldly and knowing and so utterly pleased with herself; she's only been in school a week and she's alzandy pleking out the rich girls to play with. She has no use for a girl with a plain dres or a who isn't popular. She's looking out for her self, I can tell you, every hour in the day and minute in the hour. "Little Mary Brown asked her to lend her a pencil' half an hour ago. The little new girl couldn't find the penell. Look-zke'u found it now, Gwendolyn Morton wants to borrow it.

KVINFRED BLACK

"Gwendolyn's father le rich and Gwendolyn comas de school in Hmousine and Gwendolyn giver pleasant little partier

"I've never seen the little girl's mother, but I know all about her, just from watching the new little girl,

"Look at that little follow over there the one with the surly face and the disagreeable way,

Is He a (ientleman at Home?"

"Do you suppose his father, is perfect gentleman at home. or don't you brileva thas he's the sort of man who growls at his wife and scares his children. Ell wager a box of chocolates that that boy is an exact imitation of his father, and ton chances to one, papa ia always lecturing him about his manners, too.

Look at that silly, affect, mincing little girl-she'll be better when she's been here a few weeks. She's fallen in love with one of the older girls, a nice simple, honest, straight-forwagi erexture, and in a few days pour little Miss Affectation will be doing her best le he ie and simple and unaffected, 100,

"saw her at church with her mother the other day. I could have picked the mother out in a crowd of strangers. Life Miss Affectation is a perfect copy of her. from her mince to the tour of her hend

"No. it isn't what we say to children that makes so much differ- ence, it's what we do.

W can device chler people with pretense and hypocrisy, Į buschiiren are the clever to be fouled that way. They can Bie through a raskt timer as quickly as a grown perion. pathetle sometimes to see how hard they try to be fooled, and can't manage it.

"Mr. Rockefeller must have been a teacher sometime, some! where «nny how, he knows something about children, wherever it is that he feared it."

Tear me; a wish I had never bean small and 'tean and potty. i mited al prejudar-not when poor loving, trusting t chisi ana looking to me for an example-don't you wish the same thing 2

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F COURSE It's not really necessary to fish for love, for real love comes without 'angling. But sometimes it is fun to find

he heart-pool and use gue's most alluring bait. see the nice little fish' nibble and then squirm on the end, of the line.

By Juanita Hamel WHY TRY TO DECEIVE

ABOUT YOUR AGE?

And Dan Cupid' the Reamp! sha by had laughs, thinking of the time when the tables will be turned and Miss Fishermal will be dangling on Love's line. And fishing ls really a harmless amusement for everyone concerned except the fah. But beware! Some fah are fighters:

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ROYALE COPELAND, M D.

"Dafted #tate: Senator from New Tock. Former Commissioner of Meckch, You Tork day. FEW weeks ago I read an article entitled, "Women Who Know How to Grow Did.”

It isn't nies to be sid. No one wants be be old. But the wount of it in, we just have to gut

old.

If I could make you believe I have a prosem for keeping young, you would pay me half your for tune to possess the secret. I know a man who would give me a million dollars for every year i could add To his Ifa.

But, dear friends, isn't it foolish to attempt to fool your acquaintances about your aget I say. attempt to fool them, because it is only an attempt. and a useless one. You just don't fool them.

One way or another everybody knows the age lan

of everybody else in the community. Gossip fixes DR. COPELAND

the date in most instances, but the worst of it is the face tells its own story almost in every instance. There are: few persons who escap

the verdict, 1. de re indeed, 10 tise in the eatinate by more than

two or three gese

Do not delude yourself by dyes or faim, fixtures. the truth can avadent. 11 Just can't be done,

by wasting your thus and your re putation for veracity, by the vain index about our youthfulnes You tool nobody but yourself and have no chance of caluing ABY

The rouble about the ege businuka thing.

The that pe juler hallef that nobody By right living, fresh aire exem

loves you if you are past forty, Thinli sise, cheerful thought kindy I all room - 13, 2003, You love children drede, and particularly, by unpl for their fungernet. You love boy eating, you can preserve Yong-fice and girls for their sprightliness and ure, your clearness of complexjor vivacity. You love young people ip and the avoidance of wrinkles, Thet! thenties for their ambition they will say of you: "She is every and their aalf consciouMİZOBA.

bit of forty-two, but fan't she a won until thlety years in reached deg! She doesn't look, a day" nyer that 11 becomaus. really Morlous thirty- From that birthday forward you feel you are "old"

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To everybody under thirty you are old. To everybody above try nobody is old 11 he really ta old- erventy or more.

You never begin to lie about yourį

Answers to Health Queries.

M.A. Q-140wan I enin weight"

ABuild up the general bealth by

lage 1 you are thirty. Since you exting your meals at regular Inter

can't hope to fool the young folks

valm. - Gist plenty of sleep and uter Practice deep breathing dally. it.

it will do you no good with them to. varn about it. The rest of the world won't care what your real age For further particulars kindly send because it does not ragard thirty a self-addressed, mumped envelo plus an really cld.

and repeat your question. Copingh, 1955, hy Newspaper Frature Servire,

The cull fart lo, you are absoluto.

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