Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-08
WEDNESDAY.


As the weather was beginning to be
very warm. Mrs Hooper moved her iron
ing out to the screened-in back porch.
where she could use her electric iron
quite os we'll as in the laundry now that
a wall plug had been put in to which
It could be fastened. Roger had insisted
that he was quite competent to do this,
but Mrs. Hooper would take no chances
on electric wiring, so she cons.9ered II
money only properly invested to have 1t
done by an expert electrician. He mad
Just finished the job in time for her TO
begin her ironing on the porch this
morning, for which she was extremely
grateful ironing the curtains for the
dining room was the really big work
Of the day, 80 she began on them at
once. They were simple, hemstitched
mnrquisette with no ruffles or frills with
which to bother. but the difficulty Of
getting them perfectly straight was what
made them bothersome.
Il suppose some day I'll be longing
for an electric ironer, now that I've
really discovered what q wonderful thing
the washing machine is. But this nice,
little electric iron isn't bad compared
with the old-fashioned way which tied
a woman to a hot stove 80 many hours
a day in order to keep her family looking
well starched.' But I know I'll never
be happy now until this house is cleo
trically equipped. 1t certainly has given
me a new object in saving the household
money"
She noted that her house dresses were
beginning TO look faded and bit shabby
and decided that the material for two
new ones should be among the things
purchased when she went into town to-
morrow.
All morning over her ironing she kept
| thinking Of Just how she would punish
Helen for her wrong doing. She had
been more unhappy and worried than
she cared to confess over the discovery
that her little daughter had naturally
succumbed to the sin of deceit and false
hood, as readily as though she had not
been watched and cared for since her in
fancy and been surrounded always by the
best influence.
she hadn't talked the situation over
with Henry, preferring to work out tho
problem herself and not worry him. She
wondered how the majority of mothers
met the situation. The woman at the
club in her talk on Psychology" had
been very helpful in her suggestion that
II
ingly and that all harshness should be
eliminated from the settling Of the first
offense.
But it took a great deal Of restraint on
Mrs. Hoopers part not to resort to the
old fashioned method Of corporal punish
ment of a nature that would hurt
physically in dealing with the fault. She
felt very much inclined to take her up
stairs and give her a good sound spank
ing with a hairbrush, put her to bed
without her dinner and threaten that If
1t happened again more punishment Of
the same kind would be melted out to
her. This obsolete method was so simple.
AS she brought Betty downstairs after
her nap, in her fresh little gingham
romper, and sat down on the porch to
sew and wait the arrival of the two other
children from school, she had decided of
course for the plan that according to
modern ideas is more effective in deal
Ing with delinquents, that Helen should
be reasoned with and talked with und
IL possible the cause of her tempta don
to tell untruths removed.
Roger came home from school on time,
and Mrs Hooper waited and waited for
Helen. but she did not appear Finally.
she could stand her anxiety no longer
and, putting on her hat aud coat, she
started out to find the child
The bride had asked Mrs Hooper to
tell her how to prepare rhubarb and
before she sat down to sew she had writ
ten out the following notes to help her,
and put 1t In her bag to give her the
next time thew met