The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-04
Mother Can
DO Daughter
Big Service
BY MARTHA LEE.

It's nearing the time of year
when the whole fresh crop of roll
licking f1appers and young Jelly
beans" will be turned loose from
school upon mothers and fathers
who have become used to the idea
of having the youngsters pretty well
supervised for at least eight hours
day.
Maybe last year the problem of
what to do with the kids in the
summer was solved by sending them
off to a camp, where they again
were watched over until time to turn
them over to the teachers in the
fall.
But this year is different. Those
adolescent boys and girls have in a
year become young ladies and gen.
tlemen, for whom camp is far too
primitive and much too childish.
Their needs this year tend toward
sophisticated amusements. Which
means that mothers and fathers are
going to have to start doing a little
supervising themselves.
1t is marvellous time for sensible
mothers to inStill into their daugh-
tiers few of the little niceties that
the daughters probably have missed
completely in the hurry of school
life.
Charm Big Thing
There is nothing that makes a
girl more truly popular and well
liked than charm. And mothers al
ways know little charming manners
a girl can cultivate that she never
learns during the busy winter
months.
She has been too busy to read
very much besides the required
books in her course at school. And
there are so many books that open
rosGS to thought, that stir a desire
for culture that girl does not get
in the modern curriculum.
She has dressed and aci / just
like all the other girls in n class,
because it, is necessary youth
to conform. Very often IT, :e styles
of clothes are not just as attractive
as young girls could wear.
Summer is a marvellous time for
the mothers to exert their influence
over the girl to become original. 1t
is a good time for her to create in
her daughter good taste in clothes
and manners.
1t is a time of all times for a
mother to become her daughters
pal and conf1dante. A wise mother
can tell her daughter~in a way that
will not resent, that it is much wiser
to be well poised and wholesome and
we'll read than it is to wear high
heeled pumps, lots of lip stick and
mascara, just because the other
girls in her class do.
She will devote the whole summer
to her growing boys and girls if
she really wants them to be credits
to her. She will realize they are
at an age where a little subtle in
Sinuating as to what is smart and
what is not will do infinitely more
good than all the lectures she pos
sibly could give them.
Reach Decision Alone
She will allow her daughter to
come to the decision by herself, as
far as the daughter knows, that it
is much more fun and much better
for her to play tennis and golf and
stay out in the sun than it is for
her to see all the latest movies. She
will direct that girl to the belief
that lovely creamy natural COM
plexion she can get by staying in
the sun is twice as attractive and
becoming as that awful heavy white
powder she has been wearing.
And lastly. in this age of decayirg
home life, the mother who really is
interested in her children, will make
a desperate effort to make her home
the most attractive place for her
sons and daughters to bring their
friends.
And if she really works az it, that
mother. when fall comes, will see a
metamorphosiS. She will find her
daughter has become her friend and
her sons her warmest admirers.