The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-03

out of anything to cook for him | just fall back on that" But, mamma, he doesn't like muf- finsl" volunteered little Miss May rees Dickson in childish treble, eager 1 to know that l got exact dope.
 Now the job of rearing six children, as everybody knows, is no soft and i easy task. It requires system. And these are some of the things that Mrs. Dickson has applied in their up- bringing.
 Two of the children she has reared are her brothers.
 T have to make one mind one way and one another" she narrated.
 Some children seem to obey natu- rally, while others are like the little boy who was very, very good-but when he was bad he was horrid.' You must study each child--and, when l say that, I mean that you act ually must think about his charac- teristics and try out one plan and then another to gain the results that you know are for the building of character
 T find very frequently that what one child likes the other has no taste whatever for. If this inclination, 1 feel, should not be encouraged-as in music, or art or literature or rven in food-I think up some way of edu eating or training that disinclination into proper sympathy with the est thought of the day on the subject.
 For I do not believe that just be- cause a child dislikes something he or she should be allowed to think that that attitude is correct. It nay or it may not be-"
 Mrs. Dickson is beautifully edu- dad nd ole woman. She believes in thorough | education, and in Christian edusl.ion. You would imagine a woman as busy as she wouldn't have time to look after any matters outside of her own home
 You would be very much mistaken l She feels this way;
 T must get out of my own four walls tos see the needs of my com munity, and help it put across things for the whole good. I must be con stantly inspired by fresh ideas, new thoughts and interesting Information in order that I may bring back such things to our home circle "A woman becomes narrow who merely stays home and keeps house.
 Mrs. Dickson was very much de- lighted that very soon the North Bir- mingham school is to have a lunch room. Plans must be made by the members of the School Improvement association to buy the fixtures and arrange about the lunches. Meals must be made wholesome. put at a nominal price and plans worked out whereby the lunch room will be seli supporting. In all this, Mrs. Dick son. who is also a capable business woman, will be of invaluable aid. l Like Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dickson 1 believes in making the ground arolnd ones home produce. Fruit trees crowd one another in the big back yard. and from them. just this sea, son. the wife of the new city commits. 1 sioner has gathered 73 quarts oi | peaches--enough tos supply her whole l family.
 | We haven't had to buy any peaches in years" she related.
 And you can imagine it takes 2 lot of jam and such things for my little crowd-and for us grown-ups | toor'
 Pretty pictures are hobbies witf
 Mrs. Dickson.
 T think they ought to be hung 1 everywhere upon the walls as chil ! dren grow up. and new ones con stantly replace them as the childreI | become accustomed to the old one. and fall to study them any more.
 "A child's Ideas are formed iron
 what he or she sees. and real plan ming can bring into one's hom,
 things that talk loudly themselvs