Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-17
RoxANNA.
CHILDREN DURING VACATION IN
 SUMMER.

SOlAAA1hs
 Dear Social Corner Editor and Sis l ters: How many of you are puzzled with this question: "Walat must I do home during the long summer months?" Yet these days are the mothers gold en opportunity if you did but know 1t, the opportunity of drawing the children | close into your heart, closer than they have been. perhaps the first days of school separation.
 1 look back and think if I could have 1 been advised about things and could
 see things as they were but I was quite fnsensfbIe to the fact that we were apt
 to drift apart from each others at- l tendance, when school commenced as at that time I was housemaid and neighbor, social arbiter and host of l other things I did not realize until | the entering wedge was driven in. Then
 one day awoke to the fact that I would not allow myself to do 50 much work
 and serving that could not be my
 childrens confident and companion. The
 long vacation was at hand and I would
 pick up the dropped stitches and would
 be their constant companion, would get
 them interested in home and home as-
 sociations once more which school.
 school companions and school interest
 had 50 largely thrust aside.
 At first the children are restless with
 out these, and they also miss the reg
 u1arity, the system which has divided
 the days into hours and half hours The
 acquisition of Knowledge is another thing
 which the children miss. Any tnterfer-
 ference with the regularity which his
 become habit of children's life ineites
 to restlessness.
 l '
 mothers will have to contend. It Is so
 difficult for us mothers to see from child's view point and to enter into it's imaginings. The children get lonely They miss something from out their life
 to which they have become accustomed Too young to reason this out, 1t simply chafes or frets, they become difficult to manage and irritable. Not understand } ing the reason for this mothers become ) impatient, wish school had never closed , and that 1t would speedily open.
 , Have patience motSers Gather the r restless little ones into your heart and try to make them mothers girlies or sonnies again. Give them some interest in the daily life of the home; talk to
 them about home, and make them com panions. Look into the very depths of 2 your child's heart and see what has been going on there while the little mind has been busy with letters and figures, e some ideas may have been inlbfbed there " which perhaps, you will wish to cor
 rect. Be very careful not to allow ill.,
 will to creep into a child's heart. This
 often comes unconsciously from the re- | marks and influences of another and
 wise is the mother who ntps it in the A bud
 The boy as well as the girl, can share e some Of the light labors, and some ot
 the cares-the less important cares oi - the home. The desire to "heip moth t er," if encouraged at this time. vii
 save the future bangs that come to. some 7. mothers when they learn, after a ,dsnpI1.
 ter Is through school, that she has nc 7 idea of casing mothers burdens anc
 mothers responsibilities
 can remember the little feet that
 used to want to run and help mother
 With little broom she would brush I,7 E around the stove, place the knives ant
 forks around the table, wash the cover
 to the milk jars, and let the boy tak ;; the responsibility of rutting them in th, T Jars and setting them out . niglt.. Le the boy dust the table legs and the cir IT dust the chairs
 n Tell them stories about some prornin - ent man or woman who used to do thes 7- things for their mother. Don't oh}eot f S ooys noise so long as it is good natl,r " ed noise and within bounds. Let tba bo
 traln in feats of endurance and sneaf
 umpire running matches. if need. fe. I they are old enough interest ffern, i nc reaalng book. found my boys couI
 pc interested by taking down the ency iu ciopeola and reading carefully the al nr + tcle of James Russell Lowell Then e would ask them from time to tinoa : G GaS retresh my memory. Won't you look int
 cne encyclopedia and find out for ma ! ,o what magazines his. first poems apreare od ana now old he was when he, commence
 10 write? Doubtless your boy or ei
 VIII do so and before they know if
 you are judicious, they will be interes+e
 III Farnins abbout noted men.
 Iales or chtvalry and of knight1y a, ne ventures always stir boys heart tNysi TX him knightly to brother and sis+ar 4-f-4 he you can; lead him to seek to rend, sh. them little services, and his whole ma, [" hood will be better for it
 'n- Lttie girls like to dress up in mot I CTS dresses and have tea narties
 night with their dolls Have them IT ,ur uress their dolls at night and give hal ne, patn. put on her nightfe and go.
 Deo. Teach her to sew for hers do tor lou VIII pc surprised to see what mot I CT love these little children have f ter dols. Teach the boys to make Kites f not themselves and small articles. for tht tn. slsters doll house, The little girl c, my make chairs out of card board. < for Enter into his sports if he is pla bid ming 'to go out somewhere with Jimmy ps. Show an interest in what is. to be dor ow When Jimmie comes over to see him, < ase not let it be necessary for Jimmy :. stand outside the house and wait u in- til he sees somebody come out. E in- courage him to come right Nto the dc of and take live interest.
 se One mother whom I know well, ire woman of wealth and one who is gasl large minded and broad-hearted as t She day, has a little daughter who is tnclin liy. to take on something to the color whi