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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 lulled, her mind became active, and she sidled up to her mother and whispered. "Mummic, 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 lunch, and as the poke she was buttering her toust with a sort of spankių movement.

"O come!" I Bald. "Sure-

on the parents?"

ly that depends largely FO awful look. She gave me "Would you call me Incompetent?" she asked. "Could you possibly say that I haven't taken

every

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Monday,

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There comes an age when most children seem to try to be naughty

followed every guide book to health

"Is he jealous of Meg?" I sug- and child psycholony, und, in fact, been absolutely devoted to Meg and rested, remembering psychology.

"Not

bit; he adores her; it's the

"It is only a suggestion, but you Richard since they were barn?" "Tell me," I said, soothingly.

nleest thing about hins the way lie them, but that does not mean that

I always do. But I think if Richard might be able to laugh and wheedle "You remember Richard?""

adores Meg

"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. It he thinks you do not care, "Of course," I said, remembering

A

charming lack friends of his own age?" bim.

good-lookin

"Why should he be bored?" asked spilled coal over the drawing-room he most likely won't want to bother

of carpet. little buy three and a half years old,

has plenty mother. "le

"How did you know?" who would sit for hours on the floor his playing happily by himself, and friends, plenty of toys, and a normal

what?" then would suddenly rush across the happy home, No, he just takes a de- aring round his fight in being deliberately naughty. room to fling his mother's neck and hug the life out and punishing seems of her.

difference. I've

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to make no the coal.

I've even

He used also, 1 remembered, to spanked him, in mid way," she fastinate his father with such ques- added in tions 15, "How far is away?" or "When is sometime?"

"A warmly.

heavenly

a doubtful tone,

"I don't hold with spanking" sald, pompously,

I

child,"

I

added,

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

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E was," said his mother,

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

January 23, 1939.

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It's his favourite case he might find your confidence Apple Rice Surprise

It's an old one," I said airily.

called me to see what he'd done... "Anyway, if he did that, and then which I bet he does?"

She nodded.

in him worth living up to."

"I

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

Stew one pound of cooking apples

little water with

two

SHALL probably have to grlt 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. When they rather pitying sort, of velce, 'Oh, gloves, "but I'll try. It's an idea, are cooled, rub them through a wire I wonder who anyway, and I have none left of my aleve. Cook four ounces of rice in dear, what a mess could have done such a baby trick, own. Can't children be little de-one pint of milk until tender, and

let it cool. know it could not have been you vis?"

To the rice, add the purce of apples, "They can." I agreed. "But angelic

of shredded suet, four HEN she fixed me with a because you are much too big and

iwo ounces She challenging

"You sensible for such a silly trick. Come little devils for all that." tyc. not any more. He has become an fancy yourself with children. What along, darling, you and I will clear smiled suddenly, and I saw 31eg and

it up together."

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

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with 'fancy myself'

"And if it seems to work, and he "Yes, angelle little devils is right, thinks why. He isn't a baby any more; he is four and a half, and has children at all." I said indignantly, docs start to help clear up you might she said.

like save yourself from bursting by add- 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 hap- ing. his mind for is thinking up ways to pen to like me

am tramensely without a carpet while this is clean- flattered. I want to understand ed, and won't it be cold?" make me mad."

"Hdarkly. "But not now,

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AM not one of those people who happens to be talk which is taking it in bridge, I should like carp at everything modern and place. It exalt everything belonging to "the to see all the necessary articles con- Rood old days." But there is one veniently and pleasingly arranged. fault I find among my contemporaries And one thing I should particularly

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to drop in, but the point is we all specially to work and are all doing that it is pot-luck they drop in force the hostess's eyes and tou frequently take it for granted. Nothing is so conducive

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But we have carried it whereas boredom and monotony play

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And there loo far.

We have, at least in our havoc entertaining, become casual instead particular delight in a job of work

uf Instead of informal, and there 1s lot of done for pleasure difference between the two. A money. certain amount of formality and After all, if you go out anywhere, courtesy is all to the good. It makes you really go for the purpose of hav- pleasurable distraction. human contact so much more gentle. ing some

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