Evening star., 1939-01-09
Recipe for Rumanian Dish Found for Inqung Masculine
Party Should
Be a Great
Occasion
Give Young People
Permission for
Later Hours
BY ANGELO PATRI.

When young person is given
permission to attend a party and it
is a rare privilege granted so seldom
as to make it great event, one has
to remember that it will mean late
homecoming. 1t just isn't good
sense to give girl such permission
and say, But remember, you are to
be home, and in this house, by
1890" She might just as well stay
at home for any fun she is going
to get out of the party.
Such parties do not begin until
after 9. The child would arrive, 60
to the dressing room, arrange her
hair, her dress and her face, 60 to
greet her hostess, greet her friends,
and it would be near 10 before she
started to dance. Supper is not
served until midnight. Then
couple of dances before Home Sweet
Home" Then the good-bys, the
trip home, and it is nearer 2 than
1890
If the child is to attend the party
she is to attend 1t fully, with glad
heart and light heels. If it is a
proper place for her to be in at 10
O'Clock it is still proper at l o'clock.
If the child has enough self-reliance
and self-direction to allow her to
attend such party she can be
trusted to remain there for the dura-
ton.
Fifteen-year-old girls attend school.
A late party the night before kills
the next day as far as school is
concerned. The party should be
held at the week end, so that school
pupils can attend without breaking
their schedule of work and rest.
Then they can see the party cut and
no harm done.
I would agree with the fathers
and mothers who think that Is
year-old children should go to few
parties. They are not ready for the
excitement, the provocation of the
music and the dance and the crowd.
They need more seasoning. Their
parties should be rare, at holiday
time, to mark some high occasion.
They should be carefully arranged.
II that is done the hours can be
accepted without protest.
Parties held during the school
week. entertainments of any sort
that break into a child's routine of
work and sleep are not good in their
effects on the body and mind and
character of young people. Child
hood should be kept sacred to its
purpose, the growing of a healthy,
sane, wholesome attitude toward life,
II childhood is kept for its purpose
and not destroyed by the intrusion
OF adult experiences. maturity will
be the richer and the finer for it.
II adult experiences, including ali
the social Stiffness, is permitted, even
encouraged to intrude upon child
hood, the result is character that
Is neither fish, flesh, nor good red
herring.
Young things must have fun.
Boys and girls of the early adoles-
cent years need each others COM
panionship. All this can be ar
ranged without interrupting the
healthy routine of work and rest.
and without endangering the stabil-
ity of childhood. BY all means
arrange it.
Once permission has been given
to attend a party that has for its
high interest the music and lights
and dancing of the grown-up party,
let it be wholehearted, cordial, full
permission, so that young ones may
go with light hearts and remain
with clear consciences to the last.
Mr.. Patri has prepared a leaflet
entitled Annoying Habits" in which
he tells parents how to cope with
some OF the common infantile faults.
Send for it addressing your request
to Mr.. Angelo Patri, Child Psychol-
ogy Department of this paper, and
inclose self-addressed, stamped (3-
cent? envelope.
(Copyright 103Q)