The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-12
PARENT VERSUS CHILD

Day dreaming is all wrong when it becomes
 a constant habtual state, but occasional
 lapses into this twilight zone of half-conscious-
 ness are quite harmless and indeed sometimes fruitful, inasmuch as the day-dreamer comes
 out of it with brand new idea. We should
 think of one day dreaming as having gone fish ing, and let us hope he will have good luck. | Many scientist inventor, author. statesman or other creator has stumbled upon the solution semiconsciousness between sleep and waking | It doesn't matter whether you do your fishing at
 dawn or in the middle of the day. though per | haps more skill experience is required to land your catch at midday.
 Boys and girls at the age of puberty-tWelve to eighteen-are apt to do too, much day dreaming. For two reasons. First, the physio- logical torpor, hebetude languor4 of this epoch of rapid growth and great glandular de- velopment-these young persons perhaps more than any others, need an Iodin Ration to help them and am happy to send full instructions for this to any correspondent who asks for in- .structions and incloses a 3-cent stamped en- velope bearing his or her address. Second, and hope this catches the eye of every parent un- cle, aunt, grandparent, brother, sister, teacher nurse or kindly boss of such a moping young
 lad or lass, at this age we are apt to be intro spectve, self-conscious, self-accusatory; we be- gin to be conscious of the sex-urge in life, and
 naturally curious, but unfortunately we can't turn to parents for the sympathy, counsel and confidence we need, so we just wonder imagine things, develop horribly depressing
 convictions of guilt which, If we only knew
 really have little or no foundation.
 Come, come, let us be fair and frank. In the great majority of letters have had from boys and girls who seek only the truth about these hidden and forbidden things only the knowl- edge to which they are entitled, parents come in for some we'll merited and bitter condemna- tion.
 theoretical point of view but from experience in such day-dreaming boy and also experi- ence as ordinary dub parent. As parent
 my alibi is that my boys were all girls. think if man is stin living with his wife when his daughters, if any, come along to the age or SIX ten twelve, fifteen, eighteen, he may ease him. self over tough job by passing the buck to their mother. But if he is afflicted, let us say just for a change, with any sons. then 1t IS get the right kind of instructions and if he him.
 self doesn't feel capable or fit to teach his son
 the least he can do is to deputize some one wno is qualified both by wisdom and by character. to do it for or with him. At the age or nve mother should begin teaching daughter and father should begin teaching son, the trutn' and no myths or vicious fairy tales
 Here extend cordial invitation to any boy
 of any age to write to me for any information, | instruction or advice he thinks he should have. I promise him absolute secrecy and the sym pathy and square shooting believe every boy
 needs. Of course I'll be happy to give this
 confidential service to girls too. their mothers or other guardians say oke. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Bunk in the Laundry
 | have always believed that clothes washed and dried in the air and sun and ironcd are
 as sanitary as cloths washed in the public I,a, aHn ~~--~- is not warranted. (Mrs A. R)
 Answer-Personally I'd prefer to take my chances with clothes laundered at home as you | describe. On the face of it. the appeal that 1 some anonymous "bacteriologist'' has author l ized the laundry to put a "health tag" on every | bundle of clothes is absurd. Ordinary soap and hot water is ample disinfection for clothing, no matter how contaminated. The use of chlorin | solution for bleaching and deodorizing, in the public laundry or in the home laundry, is an
 additional disinfection. Ironing, of course kills
 any germs there may be on the clothes. Grape Juice
 l made some grape juice, which tastes all
 right but whenever I take any quantity of 1t | seem to get sick : J. P.)
 1 Answer--If the grape juice has not fer mented it should be wholesome, healthful beverage If 1t has fermented you had better beware of It.
 l Cod Liver oil
 ! Large bottle of cod liver oil for less than half | the price we have to pay at our druggists. Accofding to the label 1t is tested for vitamin
 content |. Is 1t all right to use? tMrs H. IA.) .A& Answer-If any manufacturers name ap- pears on the label it is probably all right pro- vided the manufacturer Is of known repute. Now and again we hear faint rumors of other. l and cheaper. fish oils having been found satis-
 factory as substitutes for the too expensive cod " Copyright John P. pile e.,
 sIf