HANDKERCHIEF CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

HANDKERCHIEF CASE.

When out for a day in town or motorin", it is best to carry a spare handkerchief. This, rubbing up against the miscellaneous contents of the handbag, generally becomes rubbed and soiled before it is called into use. It is a good idea to have a small case for its protection. This can be made in coloured linen or silk. Cut a strip 9£in long by 4in wide. Fold so that turn over, envelope fashion. The sides can either be French-seamed or buttonholed in scallops, in a contrasting colour, the same buttonholing being carried round the flap and the spare edge cut away. An embroidered initial or monogram makes a neat finish. A handkerchief slipped in this takes up no more room in the bag than before, and is kept fresh and clean till wanted. TRAINING A CHILD. Dr. J. R. Rees,. deputy-director of the Institute of (Mental Psychology, _ in an address to the Chichester Diocesan Council at Brighton, declared that mental ill-liealth was responsible for most sickness, and the spoiling of children was responsible for the majority of mental and moral disorders of later life. Nervousness, bad temper, irritability and stupidity were not inherited. It was useless to excuse ourselves on the score that our parents were nervous. "If," said Dr. Rees, "you pick up a baby on the 1 ; - st day of its life just because it yells, and not because it has a pain, you have laid the foundation of hysteria. You have told the child, 'If you shout loud enough you can do what you like.' The child grows up badtempered and disgruntled because in after-life it cannot-have what it wants just for shouting. So many people regard children as lumps of putty they have got to mould. That is not the way in which a child should be brought up. You are moulding and shaping when you ought to be - encouraging real growth. A child must doubt, must question and think for itself. Only then will it have real freedom or real mental health."