Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1952 — Page 36

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PAGE 36 The Mature Parent—

Advice Offered on the Sharing | Of a Child's Happiness

By MURIEL LAWRENCE “1 AST spring,” writes a reader, “you wrote -a column telling parents that chores should not be allowed to interfere with sharing a child's: joy or wonder. Recently you wrote another column in which you sald that parents should not neglect grownup duties to play games with children. Doesn't your second article contradict- the first one?” No, TI don't think so. Sharing a child's joy or wonder is not necessarily playing games with him. When we play games” with him, we may be entertaining him, rather than sharing joy and wonder. This is an important distinction: The first column to which my reader refers concerned a small girl who had just found her first caterpillar in the garden. Her mother set a chore aside because making dessert seemed less important than shar-

ing in Susan's wonder. oS So

Mrs. Lawrence

THE SECOND column concerned a small boy who wanted to be amused. His mother stopped playing train with him because perparing his fruit for supper seemed more important than his entertainment. This decision was made easy for her by the frankness of her son who was having a fine time collecting imaginary tickets from imaginary passengers and was annoyed by his mother's preoccupation with realities. Though each of these parents performed differently, each performed, properly. Each decided for a child's more important need. The boy's mother decided that he needed a fruit dessert more than entertainment; the girl's mother felt that the thoughts and emotions inspired in her little girl by her first fuzzy caterpillar were more important to her than a dessert.

UNDER ORDINARY circumstance8®a child's desire to be amused often has to be subordinated to the more essential matters of baking his potatoes, ironing his shirts and performing other

tasks necessary to the proper care of our fami-

lies 1f-we let him badger us into playing. train when we think’ he should

else, we make poor playmates, impatient and

preoccupied. As he doesn’t relish being patron- &

ized by us, unless we really enjoy amusing him, we will make. him basically happier by just going comfortably about our business than by continuing to play train, looking like a martyr, WE WILL ONLY be happy postponing a chore if we" have a good important reason to do so. Amusing Susan or Squidge is not necessarily that good important reason—but sharing in their wonder is, because it is awe, fascination, terror and humility—a. compound of pretty tremendous feelings for small people to manage alone, A child can feel his first wonder for anything from a broken Christmas tree ornament to a kitten in a pet store window. It can strike him suddenly, so that a mildly colorful sunset blazes across his imagination, setting the pigment for sunset forevermore. 1 HAVE HE ARD an 8- year-old whisper, “Was that music, daddy?” about a violin recording she had heard many times before. Whatever inspires it, sunset or caterpillar, it is an emotion which should command our tenderness and time, for wonder is the feeling that makes contact between us and the strangeness, majesty, beauty and terror of the world. : So when we neglect dessert-making. to, tell Susan about her caterpillar, we are not neglecting an adult responsibility, It is always an adult responsibility to help a child see himself in relation to the great and small things around him, 80 that he begins to get the measurements on his own identity. It is much more important than amusing him or making him a fruit dessert.

Dustpan Will Make Smart Wall Rack

AKE a wall rack from your discarded dustpan. Some paint and a few

decals will do the trick. Use a covered-at-the-top kind of dustpan, scrub it clean and paint it to harmonize with your color scheme. Flat paint is best. When it's dry, you're ready for redecorating fun. Just apply a favorite «decal * design. Dip in water and put on. Punch a tiny hole in the edge of the dustpan so it will hang upside down on the wall. There you have a handy little rack to hold kitchen memos, laundry lists and shopping notes. Or, if you wish, use the rack, as a novel dustpan planter, filled with trailing English ivy

kitchen chives:

” n ” TRY A JET black one, spilling over with ivy, and trimmed with yellow: rose decals. Or a pright- blue memo rack, -enliv. ened with Pennsylvania Dutch designs. To hold the chives, a white dustpan with cool, green ivy decals would be tops. When you pick decals and decal border trims for the new accessory, consider matching it to other decal decorations—

window blind decoration.

DECALS DECORATE—Handy household helps.

Matchmaking With a Sock

Matchmaking isn’t solely the

mated socks together before

Tasty Tea Sandwiches

Entertaining at tea? Finger sandwiches, cookies, and small cakes continue to be the hostess’ favorite refreshments to serve. - An easy and -delicious tea gandwich ig this Cream Cheese Surprise made on enriched white bread. Soften two threeounce: packages ‘of cream cheese by stirring. Add six gtrips of diced crisp bacon and one-half cup sliced stuffed olives, Mix well, for eight slices enriched bread. Cut into fingers or triangles. Garnish tray with watercress,

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A busy gal these davs is Dorothy Lamour, who is getting her wardrobe ready for her

personal appearance at the Roxy ' Theater Feb, 22.

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A quick lunch at the Holly- |

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of the smartest housewives do it—with their menfolks' socks! Socks have a maddening way of losing their mates in the washing maohine or wash tub. You can waste a lot of time at the end of a tiring washday trying to bring the right partners together to make a pair. Why not make things easier for yourself by - safety- -pinning

you wash them! They'll automatically come out in happilymated couples.

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SCHOOL FORUM~—Broad Ripple High School's Parent-Teacher Association meeting at 8 p. m.

Wednesday in the school quditorium will feature a pupil discussion forum. High School Meeting the Student's Needs?’ They are Ann Luris, Nancy Bugg, Rita Purcell,

from each class will talk.

Dr. Frank Teague will be moderator.

Atopic will be “Is BR Two pupils Darrell . Lance, Mark

Jones, Bill Bertermann and Lannie Christoffel (left to right) and Don Williams, not shown. The Golden Singers will give a musical program.

Laundry Tips Given

There comes a time when a

men gets fed up! Particularly when the family bathroom is turned nightly into a junior

laundry-mat with feminine apparel dripping from the shower rod. . Actually,. there's why you can’t bundle supply of your lingerie right in the washing machine if you use a synthetic detergent. Just stuff it in a pillow case, baste it up and let it churn around with the rest of the family washing. The case will protect it and if you wash with one of the all-purpose detergents, you can be sure it will get beautifully clean. But be careful not to overstuff the case. (The pillow

no reason

case can do double duty as a |

laundry bag during the week!) Another “neat” trick is to launder a week's supply of stockings at the same way.

New Toothpaste Available Locally

On Monday we received word from New York that a new toothpaste, green in color, that contains chlorophyll has just been manufactured. Bright and early this morning a courier from Lever Brothers arrived with a shiny tube of green toothpaste made by Pepsodent. That is service with a smile, no sooner said than done. This new toothpaste which is supposed to check mouth odors, fight tooth decay and combat common gum disorders, is available . right now in all local drug outlets,

Matching Materials

When buttons, threads, other accessories, carry ¢olor guide swatches or material , pasted on match-book covers.

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Use Detergents to Clean Drains

Do your drains go glurck, glurck, glurck when they try to swallow a basinful of scummy water? Are they all ‘clogged up like a cold in the head? One reason old pipes get all stuffed up is because of the combination of soap scum and grease that coats their lining,

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antiques—Read it.

Why not try using an allpurpose detergent.- Detergents are good medicine for pipes because they do not combine with the calcium in hard water to form insoluble scum which can collect in the pipes and help to

clog them. Also, they actually help to dissolve the choking film that may have accumulated.

Rose-carved love seat, maple day bed, wire flower stand, pine trestle table, cupboards, Settle, various items, lamps, china, brass. UNUSUAL VALUES!

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FEB. CLEARANCE SALE: Offering at a 20% reduction, interesting and old pieces of

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Outside shutters, Ice-cream chairs and tables, china and pattern glass. THE TREASURE HOUSE, 126 PICKETT ST, PLAINFIELD, IND.—Tel. 7381. Open Daily 1:00 p. m. to 9 p. m. Closed Mondays.

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SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 1052

Sorority Guest ' Day Planned

HE annual guest day tea of the Indianapolis Alumnae Chdpte Alpha Chi Omega * Sorority, is scheduled for 2 p. m. Tuesday. The party will be in the Faculty Room at the Butler University Union building: The invited guests will clude the alumnae presidents and Panhellenic delegates of all the other women's college

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fraternities represented in In-"

dianapolis. In the receiving line- will be Mrs. Kurt F. Ehlert, president of the alumnae chapter; Mrs. John Burkhart, vice: president; Mrs,

Robert Secor, Alpha Chi Panhellenic delegate; Mrs, J. K. Mahrdt, district alumnae chairman for Indiana, and Mrs. Miles

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MRS. MARY BELLE BAKER LAHR will review “White . Man Returns” by Agnes Newton Keith,

® Mrs. William H. Strauss is arrangements, chairman, She «will be assisted by Mesdames Harry Mallinson, Louis A. Dawson, Walter J. Doersam, James Young, Donald R. Kuhlman, John C. Carvey, Paul E, Butz and Donaldson Brown,

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