Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-09
New Sapess Gowns Demand the Shoulder
Punishment
Should Be
Moderate
No Two.Year.Old
Can Be Perfect
All of the Time.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

WELL, I'm glad I'm home again,
Much as like to see the chill
dren I'm certainly glad to get back,
father"
Homes home" said father, filling
his pipe and cycling mother as she
trotted about. putting away her coat
and hat and bags and patting the
familiar homely things as she passed
them.
Yes. and at home I can speak out
my mind. I've been about choked for
three days. Do you remember Vim
MES being a remarkably perfect
child"
why. no. I wouldn't say so ex-
actly. She used to do her share of
mischief. Gave you plenty to do. too.
with her crying spells and streaks of
doing about as she pleased. Good
child in the long run, though. Good
as gold"
Just that. I remember Spatting
her hands dozen times if l spatted
them once for playing in her oatmeal
dish. Remember that time she took
it into her head to throw my sewing
things out Of the window? Guess l
went after them hundred times
or So"
She was a thorough-going little
body. that's a fact. Good as gold
though. Good as gold"
ITO be sure. Well. father. you'd
think to see her with that baby of ~
months that she was well-nigh an
angel. It's DO this. don't do that
stop that You shouldn't do that
That poor child doesn't move, but
what she's after him. I counted,
and in the three days that was there
she and his father punished that child
IS times"
you don't say"
Eyes, sir. He was sat in chair:
he was spatted; he was brought in
from play: he was put to bed; he was
locked in his room; he was sent to the
corner"
"Crimus. What did he do?"
"Just odds and ends of doings that
notice. He took spoon from the set
table. That was time. He had to
put that spoon back. right where he
took it from and tell his mother he
was sorry: tell his daddy he was sorry
and tell his old granny he was sorry.
Goodness! And he went out of the
yard. Well. he should have been
brought back for that. but he needn't
have been made a prisoner for the
rest Of the day. That's what went on
from morning to night. I almost
choked to death trying not to say any,
thing"
you didn't say anything, did you,
mother"
No, father, not just until I was
coming out. Then I did say one little
thing. I sad. 'Good-by daughter. 1t
must be great comfort to you to
know what perfect child you were
when YOU were 81 months and splash
Ing your hands in the oatmeal dish
and beating chickens off from their
roosts and running away to lose YOUR
self in the woods and saying the swear
words that you heard the roadmen use
and making your father carry you up
stairs after his hard days work. Yes.
After your own experiences 1t must be
hard on you to have such an awful bad
child as yours
What did Winnie say. mother?
Hope she wasn't mad at you?"
She looked as If she'd heard bad
news, I hope she did. She won't be
cured until she has about five of them.
By that time she'll know they don't
come that perfect"
Mr.. Patri has prepared a Ieaflet
entitled Poor Readers" in which
he gives parents many suggestions
on how to help children to i'm
prove their reading. Send for II,
addressing your request to Mr..
Angelo Patri, Child Psychology
Department of this paper. -Inclose
a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent)
envelope.
(CopyrRht, 1881