Detroit evening times., 1943-01-13

So, when
he made his
- - q b Ut. We
NIX. fichhhiNo still hadn't
quite decided on A bays name.
Now, we've decided TO make 1t
John James Arthur. When
people ask US why so many
names, we just say.
Names are the only things
that aren't being rationed."
WE STILL wonder how Ma
ture arranges things. The doc
tors said long ago that the war
would bring more babies, and
especially more boy babies, but
nobody knows why.
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS
how Nature does this. Can II
he, also, that nobody under
human ma
\ ture creates wars: The deep
thinkers have given us all sorts
Of reasons for war-the Yer
sailles Treaty, economies, inter
national bankers. Buf none Of
the theories washes very well.
When one of these deep
thinkers can tell us why one
urchin walks up TO another and
steals his marbles, or calls him
names. or punches him in the
nose, then we will accept what
he has 10 say about war.
Until then. I'm remaining Of
the opinion that we might as
well throw away most Of these
theories. and start using com
mon sense instead.
Well settle. with JOY, for
John James Arthur. II seems
more 10 the point To start
bringing him up as we'll as We
can, and waste no time trying
10 decide why Nature has
brought him. and 30 many other
boy babies.
IN SURE ! don't know why
expectant fathers act tho way
they do. That panic that races
around inside you isn't reserved
for the first time you have the
experience Of hurrying through
the darkness TO the hospital. and
waiting with the other panicky
fellows in the worry room. ~
leaSt--I had il again, and worse
than before.
WHILE WE'RE wondering.
wonder Why the night clerk
NJ the desk picked me-he col
Jared me and told me all about
the book he II reading.
Jean Christophe. 100 pages,
and supposed to be the greatest
novel OF the century" he said.
He's copying down all the
words he hasn't seen before, and
them in groups-alI
hhe words ending In "atlon" are
In one list. and all the "gue"
words in another. and ~ on.
Hoping not 10 be rude. I must
say that l didn't care. Not just
then.
EXPECTANT fathers vary in
outward appearances and action.
though. One fellow smoked and
talked: another. in shirt sleeves
and with his tic looSened, read
the funny papers, but il looked
10 me as though he kept reading
the same ones over and over
again Another. a harder one.
went TO sleep.
The cleaning woman. coming
around al dawn, woke him up
by turning on every light in the
place. Must be hospital habit
wake everybody up early. lie
said. yawning:
"They wake you mp, no matter
what room you're in"
"IT'S A boy, and he's wonder
full" Kitty said.
Maybe every mother says that.
] hope so. What else says il
half so well?
Anyway. the world makes
some progress. They used to shoe
the papas out the back door.
letting them back in when the
baby was curled up in the circle
Of mothers arm.
Now the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
can glue his nose against a win
dow pane i'm the corridor. and
admire the baby 10 his hearts
content in the nursery before his
wife even has had a good look
at il. u.s.
BUT ON the other hand. papa
never gets a chance to hold the
mbaby until the stay at the hos
ital is over. 'Tain't fair.
THAT'S ALL about John
James Arthur's arrival. Probably
/ shouldn't have written all this
about him. Why should you care
about him? Naturally, you're
interested in yours.
But / just couldn't help IL,
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