Evening star., 1935-01-20


rightly feel like giving father the Bronx cheer.
Her job has demanded every bit of energy and
alertness she has had to put in 1t, Just as It
has Of the man working at her side But
speaking generally her defense mechanism Is
not as well developed as is his. She is more
likely to take too seriously any trying or un-
pleasant situation which might arise at the
office to sense criticism too deeply, where the
man would bluff his way out Of 1t. At present
she is impersonal in viewpoint less controlled
emotionally and less accustomed to prolonged
mental concentration on a particular job or
problem.
There are many women who in relation to
the world of business. are much like the young
girl graduate who confidently told the world
that she had her A. B., and to whom the
world replied. grimly. "Good Now come along
with me and Ill teach you the rest Of the
alphabet" What a relief 1t is for Miss
Smith" Miss McGnnis'' or Miss Goldstein"
respectively, on leaving business for Flatbush.
Hoboken or Alexandria. and again resuming
the role Of wife and mother. 10 find that dad
has been on the job that Junior has been
changed and given his bottle, that Aloysius
isn't running the streets teasing the corner
cop and that little Abe and Isidor aren't fight
ing over the dime bank.
The Maternity Association in most cases
gives instruction In infant care and manage
ment to the fathers individually but in some
classes They learn quite quickly and with
surprising ease the principles OF infant care,
according to Miss Corbin, and are not as
might be expected, awkward in handling q
child, but very dextrous. Journalists business
men, clergymen and men from other walks in
life have taken the course and many have re-
ported TO the association that being able to
care properly for their children has been q
real satisfaction. One thing, however the as
ISOLATION would advise against, and that is
telling father, or others in his presence that
he Is simply devastating with the baby or that
he Is just like woman with it, for that, or
course, would tend to make him self conscious
about It, and perhaps suspicious of ridicule.
In Washington q baby-dressing contest for
men was held recently at the Food Show for
1884. doll was used instead of O real baby.
and the person who won the prize was a man
who has dressed his motherless little girl every
morning for the past three years.
PROFESSIONALLY this closer paternal re-
lationship and influence would have de-
cided effect on the development Of the infant.
Most persons believe environment to be all
important in child development and are agreed
that If the gangster had been brought up In q
Boy Scout neighborhood. the even chances are
that he would have become law-abiding citi-
zen instead Of violator OF the law. A child
is simply non-resisting channel for good or
evil Sometimes the influence of his parents
Is adverse to the welfare and interests of the
child, and then the law has the right to in
tervene and separate the child from that wrong
influence. In some other cases, where there
Is no Intentional neglect or mistreatment the
parents are sometimes themselves but grown
up children. But where parents are keenly
alive to their responsibilities, every aspect Of
the child's environment receives close atten-
ton.
Too often mother picked the baby up and
petted 1t every time she approached it. SO that
he expected and demanded attention contin-
ually Father, on the other hand, might neglect
fondling him altogether hospital physi-
cian Dr. Holt. was said to write on hospital
charts when an infant was ailing and not gain
ing in strength This baby Is to be loved every
three hours" DR.. Josephine Kenyon of Co
lumbia University, commenting on these direc-
tions says that discriminating loving of this
kind was q kindly, sensible thing, and saved
their lives. Often a baby. with that deep
clarity of wisdom which belongs peculiarly to
infancy, senses an idolatrous worship of his
little parsonage on the part of his parents,
and Is quick to take advantage of it. some
times becoming a little tyrant. But he is far
less likely to tyrannize over his father than
over his mother. He looks less to him for
sympathy, for patience, and would be more
highly developed in the consciousness of him.
self an independent entity
An eminent physician of the Mide. West
was quoted in recent radio broadcast as
prophesying that the human race would de-
velop in the future a different physiognomy.
He stated that human beings would have, not
a pair of eyes, but single eye, and that eye
much larger than at present. Be that as it
iS hat tha and