Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-08

TIME girl in the pink frock lay back
in the hammock, and, swinging

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TIME girl in the pink frock lay back
in the hammock, and, swinging
the daintiest feet in the world, held
forth:
1.-THE only trouble with this bringing
up of parents is that you can't start
with them early enough in life. They
may have acquired some very bad
habits before you get at them. or
course parents are harder to bring up
than children because they are willful
and calmly superior. Why l have
actually known parents who thought
they knew more than their children'
Indeed, this is a quite common trait
among them. They show it very early
in llfe-in the child's life, mean. When
are only five and don't want to
p axe medicine which you know is bitter
arI nasty they will try to force it down
yom throat saying: Take it, it's nice!
Now. if they thin. .het know more than
you in this matter they are positively
mistaken, for you are positively certain
that no medicine is nice. They also
have nice way of So Jing, If L were
you | wouldn't do such and such a
thing which is another mistake on
their part, for If they we're you they
would be crazy to do it. If they say
If YOU were L there might be some
truth in the matter. It's strange
thing, by the way, why parents always
believe that the things you want to
do are bad for you. It's only habit
I'm sure, for certainly sometimes some"
thing you want to do must be good,
Unless a parent is broken of this early
in life the habit is apt to become
fixed one and you will suffer from 1t
as long as you live. 1t will begin with
your food and toys and continue to
your choice of husband. 1 should
never encourage this superiority in
parent and the mother or father who
If I were you'd me should be sent to
bed supperless.
"P1- should be ruled by love, not
fear, and il you want kind old daddy
to come around to your way of thinking
against his own convictions just love
him little and make a fuss over him.
Rumple up his hair around his ears and
you will find him coming around twice
as easily as though you threatened him
with a slipper. 1t is wholesome for par
ents to let them have their way occas-
ionally-just occasionally-to keep them
from thinking you undutiful, but in the
really serious matters of life, such as
putting on long dresses and choosing
your husband, they ought not to be al
lowed to interfere. A glimpse of your
own feet tells you when long skirts are
necessary, and as for the husband-if
by persIsting in having your own way
you make a mess of it the consequences
are sufficient punishment. Again, in
the matter of husbands, have you ever
noticed the wishy-washy, die-away
young men mothers select for their
daughters? Narrow shouldered Great
ures with straw colored hair who have
no more tendency to sport than white
rabbit--the kind of thing you feel like
taking up with a pair of pincers and
dropping gently but firmly out of the
window. L might also speak of the
wives mothers select for their sons,
but that is by the way.
ut is never by any possibility the
girl boy wants the one that can ride
and swim and hunt with him, but a
plain, large wasted individual, with
straight hair, who has never worn high
heels in her life and who has q pious
horror of rings and ornaments. Moth
ers cannot be too severely reprimanded
for interfering in this way with the
laws of natural selection. A girl of
proper mental balance hates a man
with straw colored hair and ought to
put her foot down fatty If mother
who has only been married once in her
life tries to impose such a specimen
upon her. 1 would not suggest disin-
heriting the mother or any thing like
that, but would just shut her up in a
room with the straw colored specimen
for three or four hours and let her see
what it would be TO have to spend much
time with him. That ought to cure her
OF her obstinacy.
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