The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-25
ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER
'Disorderly Children-The Needles: Work They Create-A Suffering
 Mother.

I know it is not exactly what could truthfuHy be termed my business. But nevertheless I intend to "butt in'' on the subject of child management in SC far as the rule, "A place for every thing and everything in it's place. is concerned
 This thought was brought home for cibly during a recent call, when l was nearly scared to death by sitting down on a large Teddy bear, just at the point from which a dolefuI squeak emitted.
 The hostess, while naturally con vulsed with laughter, was also sincere ly mortified. She did not cease her apologies until the door had closed be- tween us.
 She is a lovely woman, the mother of a pampered, not to say spoiled child. chap as ever lived, is absolutely a menace to the comfort, not to say safety of visitors to the home, owing to the absolute absence of rule as far as the replacing of toys, clothing, etc, are concerned.
 Though he had a play room. one is quite as likely to find an electric troll ley car in the Morris chair, in which visitor is most likely to seat her self
 Blocks loom up on the stairs, men acing the passage of anyone up or down, particularly if progress is to be made in the dark.
 When bed time comes the youngster, to demonstrate that he can undress himself, filings off his garments re- gardless of where they rest. In the morning his mother or the maid has to creep under the bed to find one stocking and possibly fish the other out from under the bureau.
 When he comes in from play his ies Qi 11o thrown anywhere that suits him, and his mother, apologetically smiling, picks them up and hangs them on their proper hooks.
 It is this picking up'' that she has done since he was a baby that is the him that there is a place for every thing and that everything should be kept in it's proper place. In strong contrast to this harem scarem method of distributing belong ings all over the place. is the method of another equally loveable little fel- 1ow-not a prig or a goody goody eith- CT.
 He has been taught that if he brings down from his playroom any toys with which he wants to play outdoors, that these playthings are to be back in the playroom at night. There in his own special retreat he IS A1OL OOAAAN lO hSSP. dpP1C P10 OIaOA, so long as he keeps the door closed, so that no struggling toys get under the feet of other members of the household.
 When he takes off his rubbers they go into the hall stand. which has a box for the accommodation of over shoes, and not in the hall or the sit ting room.
 His sweater, cap and rain coat have their particular pegs. At night he lays his clothes carefully on a chair, not only preserving them, but in this way preparing for emergency service in the night, instead of the futile and perhaps fatal search in case of fire that the careless fliIsging off on the part of the other boy would mean. All these brings me back to the first principle-the training of the child at the start. If the first mother had begun by enforcing order sher would have saved herself many unnecessary steps, and prevented her visitors from having such flights as the one that