The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-12-06

10 observe JnlS hOlludy as IL usually
is observed. Go forth in due season
and the time is close at hand-and
trip merrily through the home stores
in delightful quest for gifts suitable for
loved ones and friends. Revel in the
JOY of anticipating the happiness OF
others, And live in anticipation of
receiving thoughtful and beautiful re
membranes from your friends and
loved ones
LETTING TUE CHILDREN REALLY LIVE.
Under the above heading one of our
exchanges says that the season of
the year has arrived when children
find it necessary to spend much Of
their time within their homes. Base
ball time has passed, the football sea.
son is about over for the younger tots,
it is too cold for many of the children
to play on the lawns and in the grass,
and the result is that mothers in
door rooms are appropriated by the
boys and girls.
All good mothers and older sisters
have great desire to keep the house
spic and span. A careful housewife
looks upon a dusty center table as a
menace. She holds disaster and woe
and worry in spider web. A piece
OF dirt from little sons shoes turns
her parlor into something akin to a
barn. A doll baby out of place or a
few toys scattered around the floor
instead of placed in the toy box makes
her feel truly miserable.
Autumn and winter are the seasons
whom children must spend a large part
of their time Understand they are
seasons when good mothers and old
err sisters must become accustomed
to a little disorder and little noise
ard little untidiness.
And after everything is said and
done, what difference does it make If
little brother happens to bring n lit
tie mud into the kitchen, or If he hap
pens to leave his mechanical horse in
the middle OF the parlor floor? What
d difference does it make il the little
abbering and tottoring baby hauls
the aluminium cooking utensils from
their place on the kitchen shelf and
used them az decorations for the liv-
ing room} What difference does it re-
ally make II the healthy boyish lad Of
the family catches calico cat in the
neighborhood, brings it home and
keeps it in little box on mothers
perfectly Immaculate back porch?
A home is a place where human
beings are to live. Boys and girls are
human beings-at least we all must
admit that they sometimes are. And
boys and girls cannot really live where
Spic and Span are absolute monarchs
and where piece OF dust has no more
chance TO exist than does mouse in
rat terriers kennel.
Keep the house quite clean, good
mothers, but for the sake OF the kids
do not have a mania for too muc
tidiness. The woman who is contin-
ually driving out dust from her home
is apt to drive out her children too.
The good mother who spends an hour
each day looking for awful cobwebs
is apt TO make life just as uncomfort-
able for growing healthy boy as 1t
is for the SPIDERS net. The woman
who insists too strenuously on keep
ing all the mud and dirt in the stree
may find that sooner or later her son
viii choose to be in the street, too, in
stead OF staying around the house
when he should.
Children are deserving OF some spe-
cIal attention and care during the fall
and winter months when the very ma
ture OF things keep them inside a
large part OF the time-and part OF
this attention should make them feel
at home. And after all there are lots
worse things boy or girl could dc
than to build a block skyscraper in the
middle of mothers perfectly orderly
plrlor, cut up paper on the dining Ia
Bile, blow soap bubbles from pan plac
ed on that expensive oriental rug, or
leave al occasional toy out Of Its or
| thodox place.