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Is he a "Little

Devil"?

SOMETHING in the course of conversation made me tell the story of the little girl who was playing in a farmhouse kitchen when they brought in a dead hare from the harvest fields outside.

When she saw the hare the child wept passionately and re- fused to be comforted. A little later in the day, when her heart was fulled, her mind became active, and she sidled up to her mother and whispered, "Mummie, please may I go and see the hare skinned?"

"Children," said my friend, "aren't

all they are cracked up to be,"

We were having luneli, and as she poke she was buttering her toust with a sort of spanking movement.

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46, come!" I said, "Sure- ly that depends largely on the parent:?"

awful look. She gave "Would you call me incompetent?" she asked. "Could you possibly say every care, that I haven't laken followed every guide book to health and child psychology, and, in fact, been absolutely devoted to Meg and Kichard since they were burn?" "Tell me," I said, soothingly.

remember Richard?" "You

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January 23, 1939.

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There comes an uge when most children

scem to try to be naughty.

"Is he jealous of Me?" I sug- gested, remembering psychology.

them, but that does not mean that

"Not a bit; he adores her; it's the

"It is only a suggestion, but you nierst thing about him the way he

I always do. But I think if Richard might be able to laugh and wheedle adores Mer."

Well, then, is he bored? Does he were mine I should try new tactics, him out of it when scolding is no For instance, if he intentionally good. If he thinks you do not care, A good-looking, charming Jack friends of his own age?"

"Why should be br bored?" asked spilled cont over the drawing-room he most likely won't want to bolher le buy three and a half years old,

mother. "lie has plenty of carpet who would sit for hours on the floor his

and friends, plenty of toys, and a normai, playing happily by himself, then would suddenly rush across the happy home. No, he just takes a de- round his light in being deliberately naughty. arma room to Hing bis mother's neck and bug the life out and punishing seems to make no trick!"

difference. I've of her.

I've even

He used also, I remembered, to spanked him. In a mild way," she fascinate his father with such ques- adiled in a doubtful tone. tions ns, "How far in away?" or "When is sometime?"

"A heavenly warmly.

I child,"

added,

"HE," said his mother,

"I don't hold with spanking," sak, pompously.

"You don't live with Richard," said Richard's mother.

How did you know?" "Know what? "About the coal.

to be naughty. I expect he is suffer. ing from mental growing pains and wants to assert himself, in which

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"It's an old one." I said airily. "Anyway, if he did that, and then

called me to see what he'd done which I bet he does?"

She nodded.

rather

In him worth living up to,"

"I

THE children as well as the grown- ups will want a second helping of this unusually deletous pudding.

Stew one pound of cooking apples two little water with

When they

let it cool.

SHALL probably have to

grit my teeth until they! "Well, I would count ten, then break, and count forty instead of in a very grit my teeth and say in a pleasant, ten," said my friend, pulling on her ounces of brown sugar.

un ldcu, are cooked, rub them through a wire pitying sort, of voice, Oh, gloves, "but I'll try. It's dear, what a mess. I wonder who could have done such a baby trick. Way, and i have none left of my sieve. Cook four ounces of rice in I know it could not have been you own. Con't children be Hitle de une pint of milk until tender, and

vils?"

"They can," I agreed, "But angele THEN she fixed me with a because you are much too big and THE

"You sensible for such a silly trick. Come little devils for all that." challenging

What along, darling, you and I will clear smilled suddenly, and I saw Meg and not any more. He has become a fancy yourself with children.

it up together."

Richard mirrored in her face. absolute little devil, and I can't would you do?"

"Yes, angelle little devils is right, with baby

myself'

"And if it seems to work, and he any "I don't fancy Udnk why. He isn't a more; he is four and a half, and bus children at all," I said indignantly, does start to help clear up you might she said.

like save yourself from bursting by add-

Iris Stafford rather a quick and amusing mind, "I'm very fond of children.

Now we shall have to do but I believe the only thing he uses being with them, and if they lap- iur.

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AM not one of those people who happens to be talk which is taking corp at everything modern and place. If it is bridge. I should like exalt everything belonging to the to see all the necessary articles con- sad old days." But there is one veniently and pleasingly arranged.

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should particularly che thing fault find among my contemporaries

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the habit which was certainly not prevalent rarlier times, and that is our lack of hostesses have of knitting or darning hospitality. I do not mean that we or sewing when visitors are in the It is A different matter when resent people coming to see us. No, house.

of people number we are only too ready to tell them a to drop in, but the point is we all specially to work and are all doing too frequently take it for granted it. Nothing is so conducive

for chilly atmosphere, however, as to that it is pot-luck they drop in for,

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I make these because Urey cheered and flattered by the attention are so much quicker to do and are,

of fact, you had received. It really brighten-s

matter

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