1938-03-02 — Page 3

THE› CHINA MAIL, MARCH 2, 1938

All Parents Are Fools, Says

This Champion

Of Youth

**All parents are fools" is a stages of his life was done solely statement which, though sweeping, for the convenience and comfort has so much of wisdom in it that of the parents, and that sending it is worthy of due consideration. him to "a really good school" was It is, perhaps, the more deserving every bit as much for the gratifica- of careful consideration since it tion of the parents as for the benè- was made by a schoolmaster whose fit of the boy. · profession

gave him full oppor- tunity of studying the child as he appears in his role of father to the man, and of observing the man who is father of the child.

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Four-Pack Fortunes

An Easy Fortune-Telling

Game With Cards.

"We shall have to send him to thing else. No, I agree, we really ask your Whittlethorpe's. We can't do any

To tell fortunes by this method, friend to shuffle well a can't afford it, but then all the nice people send their boys there into four packs, setting them

pack of cards, and then to cut them side From the fully-developed par- Mrs. Standoffish's boys go there, ents he accepted payment of the and I'm sure they can't afford it by side on the table. Then ask her

to choose one of the packs... - fees "for tuition given," but any better than

If we can. secretly endorsed all; accounts] don't send Peter there I shan't be

If she chooses the left-hand pack, with invisible ink:.. "All parents able to look her in the face again,” are fools.”

she is more interested in business, It would be well when childrn or in her career, than in anything Another far-seeing person a show ingratitude and parents belelse. schoolmistress, this time-laid it come indignant, if a record of this 'down that if you wanted anything ten-years-ago discussion could be If she chooses the second pack. well done it was needful not to do put on the gramophone. It may love of home is the most dominating it yourself (as specified by those seem spiteful to make such a suginfluence in her life. self-opinionated people who think gestion, but candour has to suffer they can do things so much better a good deal of misrepresentation. than other people), but get some- body else to do it.

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NO FAIR DEAL

If she chooses the third pack, there are certain troubles and delays in store for her before her wishes are fulfilled.

You will at once appreciate the

It seems to e that the relation- association between the two "wise-

ship between parent and child cracks."

If she chooses. If parents are fools then

the right-hand obviously the proper training and revision. Through the ages child-about money problems.

calls for careful consideration and pack, she is likely to be thinking education of their children' can only be carried out by others. To ren have not had a fair deal.

relationship has constantly do otherwise is but to display the wisdom of the mother who, when part the child has had the gone changes, but for the remonstrated with for feeding a end of the stick. baby on kipper, replied angrily:

babies? Me what's buried

ten

The under- Now take up the chosen pack, and thick there are two, three, or four of any most spread it out to make a reading. If

particular number, separate them,

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How to make your hair wind-swept ... and keep it tidy, too.

Whatever Jour farsurite style, you mast brush your hair regularly. Combing 1 not sufficient, and you must brush, up- Wards from the. (roots, as well as Using the top. This releases the natural oils, and given an attractive gloss to the hair. This windswept style will sufi. either a centre or a side parting.

Árrance Bitle tight' curis in two ** firm, rows at the back, pinning each Bal- 1o. -ike-head with a hairpin. At The sides of the fäce -and on the fatehead, brush the hair In smalk sections upwards and SAMELY: Froz the head Care- fully wind eschi piece inwards. stretching the

· roofs : 1 D.ward z. Pin the curls flat Inte, position.

Spray the hair freely with a good sitting totion. Then, using a hand-dryet, dry thoroughly without disarranging the pinst When it is dry, comb each curi, returning It loosely, to the position' which it wilk automatically wish to take up.

"Think I don't know how to feed te must have been a ver cards give no indication of any for circular movements all the way During the Puritan period the and consult the table below. Single hair line with bay-rum. Use tiny

dog's life. All enterprise, tune; it is only the pairs, threes, or round and you will soon find your all joy and cheerfulness, and near fours that count.

hair grows more evenly and more strongly.

o' 'em."

FROM PLUMP BABYHOOD

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ly all happiness must have been

they

guess

may

For greasy hair, powdered orris root is good. Sprinkle this on your

result will be a smooth and glossy hair. It smells nice, also. You can get the orris root from your chemist.

Massage will do much to im- prove hair that gets limp, dark, and dull-looking during Winter months. Using the tips of your fingers, massage your scalp all over, using a rotary motion, every morning and evening. Use warm olive oil if the hair is dry.

crushed out of it. If, indeed, the ACES speak of something new child had not a natural ability for That will shortly come to you. Most of those who are spoken of finding some sort of happiness in TWOS: they tell of something hair, Then brush it well and the as having been "well brought up" the most uncongenial surround-

strange, have been reared from plumpings, happiness would actually Sudden, unexpected-change. babyhood to weedy youthfulness, have been killed by the Puritans.THREES will give a warning clear, not by their parents, but by When this process had continu- Someone's going to interfere. nurses, governésses, tutors, and ed long enough to ensure the hard- FOURS: they tell that you masters who are paid specified fees ening process people turned to! for their services.

exploiting children by sending You will shortly have success. The parents of these children, factories-taking them out of the Quarrels on the way of life.

them down the mines and into the FIVES will tell of coming strife, generally spoken of sardonically workhouses before they had reach SIXES you will make a friend as "fortunate," are for the most

ed their 'teena and sending them part disposed on the slightest pro- vocation--that is, on the slightest to the mills in the country, where Who'll stick to you until the end. display of ingratitude to call at-

were as much slaves and SEVENS have a tale to tell

[Of quiet progress, all going well. tention to all they have done for prisoners as those languishing be-

hind locks and bars.

EIGHTS mean travel to the sea, their children, all they have spent

All this had a cumulative effect. A pleasant holiday to be. on their upbringing and education.

Children who are ruthlessly kept NINES mean changes in your ways Ordinarily the child who is on the

under will naturally adopt a simi- Ups and downs for many days. threshold of manhood or woman- lar ruthlessness when they grow TENS give you a prosperous fate- hood has no really effective answer

Provided children are sensibly clad you Wealth is what they indicate.

the

governing factor in a child's im- to this "all I've done for you" up and become parents... If

overburden the young flesh you are

Of course, if you have three of a munity from colds, is the condition of argument.

sure, in the end, to injure the bone, kind, it is a stronger indication than An occasional mild aperient dose of

the stomach and intestines. Parent and child are here in a About the middle of the last if there are only two of a kind; and Baby's Own Tablets is an excellent cul de sac, with the recalcitrant century children were released if there are four, it is almost a cer-safeguard which will ensure that any child with his back to the wall and from their thraldom. But they tainty. the indignant parent barring the were still kept at arm's length, exit. He may make a get away by "Children should be seen and not climbing the wall at the end or heard. "Spare the rod and spoil rushing the exit. Failing these the child.” This gave us a race of two means of escape he calls a hard drinkers, among whom the trace.

three bottle men were as princes.

CARE FOR THE HAIR

How To Prevent Children's Colds.

unobserved irregularity is corrected, and that congestion of the food tract which makes a child liable to achill will not take place,

Baby's Own. Tablets are made from the prescription of a physician who for many years studied children's ailments, and successful use in millions of homes all over the world is ample proof of a their general efficacy. Baby's Own Tablets have definitely superseded the old fashioned griping crude regulators such as castor oil, senna, cascara and,

You

Then we arrive at the pampered This Season's hats necessitate THE TRUE MOTIVE

child stage, and this in turn gave neat, smooth hair line. Any straggly us insufferable milksops and prigs, hairs ruin that sleek effect Youth has so little experience in in youth and unendurable bach should aim to achieve. If your salts, all of which, even in same doses, analysing the motives of people lors in middle agent

hair does not grow neatly. that the obvious reply to this “all · Every generation reaps what has evenly, and you have straggly I've done for him, argument is un- been sown by another rents at the edge of your coiffure known. It is that all that was eat sour grapes and the children's this remedy. done for him during the early teeth are set on edge....

and are too severe for Children's delicate hair internal membranes. Give your chil- dren a few Tablets every now and ther and note how fit and cheerful and free |from colds they will keep. “All chem-

Massage around the edge of the lists can supply you.