Evening star., 1938-12-19
Lost Plum Pudding Recipe Turns Up Unexpected Source
Interference
Of School
Lessons
Let the Crowd Get
Together, but Not
For Studying
BY ANGELO PATRI.

Where are you going, Walter
smith?"
"Over to Laura's house. The
crowd is going to meet there tonight
to do homework"
whats the idea? I've heard
nothing about it. What made you
think of doing your homework at
other folks houses? I don't get
this"
"1t's more fun, and we get done
faster, If we all work together. I
get sick of staying home and work.
Ing by myself. The crowd is going
to meet at each others houses; take
turns. So I said I'd 60 along"
without asking? Does the
teacher know? Will she be there?"
II should say not. Nobody's
going to be there"
We'll, neither are you. You do
your homework in your own room
as usual. The crowd cannot inter-
fere with your school work. Now
you may just as well stop where
you are because this is ridiculous.
Study is serious business. You
can go to parties that are parties,
but you cannot mix play and study"
I'm the only one of the crowd
that won't be there"
That's just too bad for the others.
And I don't believe the other
fathers and mothers are going to
stand by and see their children
stop school work and play together
any more than we are"
Il have to stay home all alone all
the time. The crowd goes to each
others houses all the time, but
can't. Looks zif I was in Jail"
There is no reason why your
friends cannot come here if you
want them. I've suggested 1t many
times"
"Yes, then you'd all sit around.
Some fun that would be-"
'All of us meaning that I'd be
somewhere where I could be seen
or heard. Your father isn't at home
most evenings. Is there no grown
person about when the crowd gath
ers at each others houses?"
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but they don't stick around the way
you'd do. I've only been once, at
Betty's house, and her mother
wasn't home, father either. They
trust their child"
you're right. I wouldn't trust
the crowd, as you call them, in the
house, and would not want you to
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having as they know they should
behave they would not be anxious
10 have the family out of the
house. And the girls would not
be calling you on the telephone as
they are now. You tell them that
1t is not possible for you to go as
your mother and father had made
an engagement for you"
This will happen, now and then,
In the best regulated family. Some
thing has been overlooked and the
bhild got into the wrong road.
Just head him back, decidedly;
stand by until he gets the idea
firmly set in his mind that he is
more concerned with his job of
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ing something worthwhile than he
Is about what the crowd is doing.
There is always such a group in
every school, The leader is usually
3 girl, rather advanced in the art
Of attracting boys; the girls gather
In the reflected glow she sheds. Any
Intelligent father and mother ought
10 be a match for her. Boys need
protection and guidance quite as
much as girls do, and they are often
exposed to temptations that they
might we'll be spared.
Mr.. Patri will give personal
attention to inquiries from par
ents and school teachers on the
care and development of chill
dren. Write him in care of
this paper, inclosing Scent
stamped, seif-addressed envelope
for reply.
(Copyright, 1881