The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-28
Nifty Room Might
Help Keep Boy
at Home
BY
NORA COLE SKINNER

These are sad days for boys
Not Just because school begins
soon. hut because baseball season
IN Rlmos, over.
Women. guess. Just can't
realize what the great American
pnstlme' means to n boy, but IT
must have peculiar pun for we
know that every malr Of any ago
ana every class loves baseball
game either AS spectator. umpire,
or star player.
Mothers grieve over having their
"baby' grows 10 be real boy"
"They don't stay as close to
mother as girls do. you know"
butoI wonder II mother realizes
that It is largely her fault. She
pushes the boy out.
II sounds harsh. but this thing
about baseball proves It II we only
had way OF finding how many
mothers accompanied their young
sons 10 a baseball game this sum
mer.
There IS little doubt but what
you went 10 numerous affairs Of
Interest to your daughter--dId II
occur to you that YOU might do
likewise by your son?
1t is rcgrcttahle time when
boy begins 10 be decidedly a boy.
It seems to be expected, taken for
granted. and therefore encouraged,
that he pass from the lovhhle
child" stage. TO n rough, non
home-l loving lad, little less than
tough. at the age OF - or H. and
he is thereafter no longer Of the
family circle but belongs to the
ncighhurhood gang. body and soul
lie IN inclined outward at this
time of life. but he need not be
given u push.
Isn't Il a fact that the worst or
everything in the house in the way
OF furniture Is dumped in the
boys room? And isn't that room
the most unattrartive one on the
plncc--the smallest. hottest Cuhhv-
hole OF a room, that is always the
last one TO get fresh paper?
"Oh. anything IL good enough
for VIlly, he never goes 10 his
room except to fan In bed, any
how
II might make n difference In
Ruly II he had n decent room TO
go to where he could have fell
low spend tho night and show him
HIS remnants, hts class and FOOT
hall pictures. his kodak album,
and souvenirs OF his camping trip
and that last automobile tour
he took with dad. Roys like their
own things gathered together ana
dlsplayed In hoy fashion. They
even Ike pretty" things, espe-
-rially II they grow M being treated
as " they're expected To IKE mem.
There ls no such thing as Billy
getting TO be TOO much or BOY
Uc outgruws his baby ways ana ne
masses through that stage where
nc IL afraid OF being called
'.slssy " hut the family adds to the
,'hoycott" by treating him as some
thing that is In the way hut mas TO
be stood for from IN" day he be
gins PLAYING with Kids he doesn
know down on the vacant lot until
hes grown.
n "a not so that boys are not
,eDder and affcCtonate. loving at
tentlon and even "A show or demon
strntIyencss at times. Look what
All has TO he done abroad and In
the training camps over. mere 10
keen our soldiers from dying OF
homcsickness
There is less danger or girls
growing away from home influ.
ences" than hoy-wouldnt "
seem then that the boy should get
the more attention. At least one
han game together before the sea
. SON expircs-for n trial. and then
do something TO his room--inst
something to keep It from being
the one room IN tho house mat
has to be shut or when company
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