The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-17

quickly break;
 But if unstrung twill serve you at your need.
 So let the mind some relaxation take
 To come back to it's task with fresl1- CT heed.''
 Have you a little boy in the family If so, do you try to understand that little loving heart of his2
 There's no end of pleasures for the lad who is born to wealth. The en- tire family devotes itself to the one
 aim of finding amusement for him. His playroom is a veritab1e toyshop.
 That which is bought for him today he filings away tomorrow. Life is one perpetual round of glee for him. The little boy of the tenements looks out upon life from a far different win dow. His parents, as well as his older brothers and sisters, must work to keep a roof above his head and pro- vide for his meals. He only knows what toys are by gazing at them
 through the shop windows. If there's a tot younger than the little boy of ten in that household the little fellow is apt to have a sorry enough time of it.
 To him is delegated the task of talk ing care of the youngster. If it's a boy it's not quite so bad; he can drag him along to watch him play marbles, baseball and the other games the ganins of the street are wont to in
 du1ge in and the tot is left almost to
 himseI ito grow up. like Topsy, as best
 he can.
 If the younger child is a girl the lad is never through weeping with rage over the sorry trick fate has played upon him in such an affair. He is for
 bidden to take her won on the street to play, to the baseball grounds, or to the swimming pool. There is nothing
 he can do but just sit there all the
 beautiful, long spring day with one eye on ''the Kid.'' as he calls her. and the other on the window, through which a slanting ray Of sunshine fl- ters, wondering what s'the fe1Ierss are
 doing, and conjuring up how fine it. must be for those who have no young CT brothers or sisters and can play in the open air and sunshine from morn 1 ing until night, ere school days begin for them.
 Parents who leave a younger child in such a lads keeping do not realize how hard and desolate they arc nnak- ing life for him. They will say they
 have no one else to leave in charge to
 wash the breakfast dishes, tidy up the place and rock the cradle until moth CTS return Other means should be resorted to. Some woman in the neigh
 borhood can be induced to care for baby during those hours in which she is watching her own, for a very small stipend. That money is wisely spent if it affords the little lad an opportu-
 nity to run about and play in the fine thealth-g giving air and glorious sum shine when his books are thrust aside for the day.
 Almost every boy who is forced to care for the younger fry of the fam lily grows up with a secret dislike of [ little ones. This trait is very apt to cling to him long after he has grown to manhood and has welded. He has a cordial dislike for children; he knows why Boyhood is playtime. Parents should not forget this and should make due allowance for it. Even the
 boy born to poverty may not feel that life is empty and hard to live through if he has his pIaytirne and indulges
 freely in it. Childhood is with him but once; he cannot pass that way q sec ond time pjAE