Evening star., 1946-12-19
CHIvALRY? HA!
From Mrs. r. M, Bethesda. J


T. of Washington for her spirited
attack on the females of the species
who, having grabbed of practically
everything there is to grab in the
way of privileges and rights and op-
portunities-and not entirely by
their own merits, either, but with
the generous help of the maligned
male-now go about whimpering or
yelping that the aforesaid males dc
not accord them the chivalrous con-
sideration that the corseted, clos
eted, down. -trodden females OF the
18th and 18th centuries received.
In the name of Allah, what do
these females expect? Why give up
ones seat to a female riveter?
Why, for that matter, give 1t up to
SNUG, be-furred club woman who
has been. comfortably parked on
her well-upholstered spine the en-
tire afternoon, while the uncivilized
male occupying the seat has prob
ably been wearing his dogs out all
day In pursuit Of his particular way
of bringing home the bacon? And
even If both he and she are equally
tired, equally anxious to rest, 1t Is
statistically demonstrable that wom-
en- are much stronger, longer-lived
and generally possessed Of greater
staying power than men, so, again.
why give her his seat?
And as for other forms of chiv-
airy, it's pretty hard to do the
Walter Raleigh act to female with
whom you have been smoking and
drinking neck and neck for hours
on end. And I don't mean I'm ag'in
either smoking or drinking, doing
my reasonable share Of both. but,
except for few slight courtesies
which are slow in dying out and
which the average man prefers to
observe rather than stamp himself
complete oaf, I do not expect any
thing from a man that ] do not ex-
pect from a woman, in the way OF
consideration. 1t seems to me, as a
fairly straight thinking woman,
that we have already gotten "all
this" and it is unreasonable to ex-
pect Heaven. too." There! Now ]
feel better!
CURING BITTER.
From d. E. L., Arlington.
To M. j. S. of Arlington whose
11a-year-old is at the biting stage,
I'd like to offer some help. My son,
now Ok, went through the same
thing. Being very much against
spanking, I tried reasoning. When
that failed, I tried Furnishing In
mild form, e.g., keeping him indoors
SO that he couldn't play with his
friends; taking his stoys away from
him, or anything else that seemed
reasonable at the moment. However,
none of my attempts were success
full. I finally consulted my pediatri-
clan. She is a doctor well known in
her field and member OF the school
of thought very much against
spanking children. She explained
that inasmuch as the child is too
young to be told and to understand
the seriousness of the act, and that
the mild punishment didn't work,
the only thing left was a good old
fashioned spanking.
1t took about thSee Of such Incl
dents to get the idea across to Mike
that it was bad thing to do. But
it worked. Now he knows he's not
to bite. So much SO, that when he
finds himself going to bite some one
he stops himself, embraces the per-
son and apologies before he bites
and then doesn't bite! In other
words, he apologies for what he
was going to do.
BY no means, should you bite him
back. And also see to it that you.
your husband and all the doting rel
atives don't bite him affectionately.
He isn't old enough to know the diff
ference.
X + 4 Y
CRAYON STENCILING.