The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
FOR PARENTS

HaNhels ana mothers or BirmlnS- ha m,
 Do you know your little wonder ful children?
 Do you know what they like; what they want? Are they getting at your hands just what they should get?
 Maybe they are; mabe they re not. The Age-llerald doesn't know.
 But listen at this:
 One night out of every week these school days the children are free and at home. One night out of all the week they feel that they do not have to study.
 That night is Friday night.
 What do you do for your children on Friday nights?
 Do you play with them? Do you tell them stories? Do you pop corn with them? Make fudge?
 Do you make them look forward to Friday nights at home with you with such terrible longing that they study harder because they krow that you are planning some thing wonderfully sweet Tor them that evening?
 The whole future of your children can rest on what you do for them Friday nights. You can inspire them these hours to be lawyers, to be doc tors, to be poets, writers, painters, brsiness men and women. You can lay the foundation for their whole artistic development in the stories that you tell them.
 You can teach them self-control
 Are you missing this opportunity?
 Plan Friday Night
 What are you doing Friday nights? | Wouldn't it be wonderful to begin right now and plan some fun at kome; something to make the chill dren love home, and the memory of 1t all their lives-love to come back to it?
 Somebody said the other day that l.homesickness was a thing that peo- Ile were getting over. They didn't have any homes any more and there wasn't any good times at home
 The Age-Herald wants to change this if it's so. They want Birming- ham children to have such glorious nights with their parents that every child everywhere will just long to be Birmingham kiddie.
 For this reason The Age Herald is going to do it's bit. It is going to ask dozens and dozens of little local children what they would like to do on Friday nights. These let ters are going to be printed every Saturday on the children's page. so that you can read them. It will be really revelation to you, maype-,. the things they will reveal to you that you never thought child really considered at all.
 On top of that The Age Herald is asking the children to write to the children's page editor just what they want to eat at that most glorious of all times-Saturday lunch.
 That is childrens play day.
 Now, of course. fathers and moth CTS are intelligent enough to know that just because a small boy wants plum pudding and pie and cake and watermelon and grits and gravy and lots of pickles, that he shouldn't be given that all at once.
 l Oh, such a sickness would there be!
 But oh, if you just knew that your little boy and girl were eager for just something that really wouldn't hurt them a bit, wouldn't you be glad to give it to them? Not too much of it, but just enough?
 Special Times for Them Let the children learn to know Friday night and Saturday lunch are very special times for them, and 1 nothing in the world is going to be brought in to mar that happiness
 And if visitors should happen to come in, 1t mustn't spoil the pro- gramme, either.
 Start In now to plan for your chill dren Friday night
 Make regular little programm. and stay at home with them, or go with them where they want to go. All other times in the week you can be disciplinarian, If you wish, but be new father and mother Fri- day night.
 The first Children's Page will ap- rear tomorrow. Read every line of lit. It's going to grow better all the time, and it's policy is going to be dictated by demand, Let your chil- 1 dren write for it. Write letter yourself to it's children.
 Let us have cute story that the babies will enjoy. If you know something funny. write it to the Chil- Il dr ems Page. If you have a cunning picture, send it along.
 Get busy for your own children and other peoples children. Isn't lit grand and glorious feeling to be doing something for others not as big and strong as your
 Now on top of this, we want you to send us in your plan for making the children happy Friday nights. It ought to be different plan. in part. every Friday night. A series of stories is mighty good if they have some real foundation for cul- tpre or entertainment behind them. | One woman said not long ago:
 'I have my mother to thank for knowing all of Mother Goose. Easop's fables, plots of late books which she 1 fairy stories and poems. She sang them into our minds when we lay on the bed beside her. and she told them to us by the hour till we all went to sleep together. l never find my self out of a clever answer because of that. Some childhood thing will come popping up that just saves me-
 The Age-Herald will give your children a chance to benefit other lit- tie folks, for it is to have a Fresh Air club, and any little money the children make can be sent m to the paper and will be given to respon- sible Birmingham authorities of es- tablished organizations for the ex- press purpose of seeing that little children get out into the country and ret fresh air next summer
 Also listen to this: If your iitttie E.boy or girl has a pet--a faoplt' 4 b'rd or dog, or some playtnlng or which they are tired-The Age-Her- ald will carry an exchange column each Saturday on Children's Page where they can get in touch wltn other children who want to exchange something else for them Isn't that cute idea? All these ads are free.
 II All that is necessary is to have the children write what they have to exchange to the Junior Editor Of The Age Herald. The letter will be