The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-10
BY Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

Take equal parts Of love and disci-
pline. Add u pinch OF humor Il large
cupful of physical care and plenty of
Juvenile companionship and outdoor
life. Dust all over with common sense
and season with a good example DO
NOT stir continually"
That is the sensible recipe Ethel NJ.
Kelly offers to Any mother for max
ing sane. healthy, happy human be-
ing out of Any baby. In her new novel,
Turn About, Eleanor" Miss Kelley,
who has studied children and written
about and for them in many poems and
tales, pokes gentle but intelligent fun
at the various elaborate theories OF
child culture with which a number OF
us are getting a bit fed up. She tells
how six unmarried young men and
women comparatively adopt Eleanor,
pretty, self respecting little girl from
Cape Cod. and try to develop her
according to Nine. Montessofi ct al
to the childs intense discomfort and
boredom.
Il am going to turn you loose in the
apartment and let you do what YOU
like" cooperative Aunt Beulah told
Eleanor on the first morning. Il want
you to enjoy yourself in your own
way" For the book said. Give the
child absolute freedom in which to
demonstrate the worth and value OF its
age"
Eleanor, Miss Kelly relates with
great sympathy. looked about her help
lessly. She turned desperate face
from the window. DO | have to-
she asked piteously have to amuse
myself in my own way. ! don't know
what you want me to do. ] don't
know what you think that | ought TO
do
And that's the effect the modern
child -fancicr, be she mother or teacher,
has upon the modern child Miss
Kelly told me with quiet emphasis, in
her apartment at No. 159 East 18th
street. The American child is fright
fully self conscience, and the fault is
with this new craze of insisting on his
self expression
"A child cannot be natural in an
atmosphere of self consciousness.
And the mother OF today is self
conscious. She is obsessed with
XII lHe piitfi SNit-'Nli'
sion: so she puts the child in the
middle of the room, turns upon it
the full power of her careful. men
tai microscope and says, Nov, my
dear, express yourself. Go to it,
Even an adult could stand such a
test with difficulty. :. child is
bored. terrified, or in sefdefense
turns hstrionic. What the child
of today needs moro than anything
else is a good thorough letting
alone
But you must not read anything
cold or heartless into that very sen
siblc remark of Miss Kellys. She be-
leves in children believes in them so
much that she thinks people to whom
they are not born should achieve them.
I'm going to adopt one or more"
she assured me. And ! think that
every Young man or woman, who is
not married who has the means and
who likes children should become a
foster parent Everybody wants some
stcadyng responsibility. l have seen
so many people here in New York
fake families Two, girls will take
an apartment together. then. with the
housekeeper as chaperon. they will
board the brother T one of them, and
in a short time they will have made
for themselves n real family life"
But you think that children should
be brought up on old shioned rather
than new fashioned rules" | sug-
gested. -..s...= f.. .r.s.- r.
u think that on the physical side
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