The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-26
LETTERS FOR WOMEN
and GIRLS
BY MRS. w. C. JOHNSON.

4 number Of weeks have passed since
my last letter. A story was to shave
been tried instead. a serial story, but
the Influenza interfered. The story is
still in prospect, but today ! want to
put a question to the mothers and
friends OF the Memphis children
How can | best serve your children,
afford them recreation?
welcome suggestions.
From Washington and from Nashville
come letters asking me TO do TINS part,
his bit" think % know | love
best In the world to be with children.
Earlier in the summer suggested
that, for one thing, | could be, later,
at the Brooks gallery, Overton park,
when it opens at II am, on Saturdays
and take the children out into the park
from there, still think that a good
idea. will be there each Saturday.
Mothers welcome, also.
heard a test psychologist say to a par
ent from the South: Your children
have had manual art in early child
hood. This surprises me,
Why are you surprised
Because YOUR children are from the
South. or all children I test they seem
most neglected in this respect
is 1t Important
of vital Importance. The sense OF
touch is the mother OF all our senses,
A child with IA good start has many
chances to be bright and good later
Mothers must understand
II play schools start again the moth
ers. this time, will have to take both
an interest and an adequate share,
In Canada. at harvest time, women
are drafted for service. In the South
women may have to be drafted at time
of planting OF character In their chill
dren. They forget caring for a CHILD
up to IL years is the great task toi
which women are endowed. Men Of
science discover this. but at the same
time discover with dismay that mem
bers of their W sex have practically
chained women to a heap of nonrssen-
tails and their children, too, or else
turned the latter loose to loaf in the
we must help the thoughtful men, the
government leaders, to right thes,
wrongs.
John Burroughs tells how he found {
bucket of maple sap overlooked by the
sap gatherers and soured, He poured |
out on the ground, saying, Go close t
nature, She has wonderful sweetening
purifying power
feel this generation can do no bet
ter than to send children (whO appea
to be on the list of nonessentials, com
piled before the war;, back to nature 4
establish farm fun and service, Lane
army UNITS LOT tle klIlh, SUCH as ! SAY
in Illinois, are certainly means OF re
creation,
But pending the slow movements o
the Memphis conscience whore the nod
ern way of considering girls Is con
cerned, whal can | do TO help you
children? Command me,
7 have tried various ways. The chill
dren always encouraged me-, the me
and women, In general, never. The fey
exceptions could not move the mass.
Browning, world famed as a mora
seer, says tina a who has chill
dren and who fails to be a sentinel, lis
tening, ever ready to die before sh
neglects the child's opportunity, Is
failure. In the child she can read he
judgment day.
If you want to know how the aNerag
woman looks to the sociologist, 60 on
and look at the sea gull with wing
clipped, awkwardly walking about wit
the tame ducks at the Zoo.
Woman's best powers are somcho
crippled. The part in life's drama 81
was made for is somehow not dignifie
by real use.
, / would be glad to have the first wee
/, In December a mothers class again.
. am at your servise. II mothers VEL
, ION the Job" no "obedient servant
would in time of need like this So vi
employed,