RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

SMALL SORROW

Troubles, they say, never ceme singly. He was only a little bey, but just old enough to go off to the local swimming pool unescorted. He likes swimming, and he spent a considerable time in the water. When he came back to the dressing shed, he was dismayed to find that his clothes—a pair of shorts and a singlet—had been taken. He dried himself a little sadly, and wandered about the large changing room, looking

without success for his clothes. When he returned to his starting point, it was to discover that his swimming shorts had also been taken. Sadly, he wrapped his towel about his middle and went off to the attendant to tell him of bis losses. The attendant, a kindly man, found a spare clean shirt and shorts from the lost property box, so was able to send-the boy off home at least dry and warm.

But It was as he was leaving the- baths that he met an anxious mother, coming to claim the very shirt he was wearing. It is not easy for a small boy to explain, among the tears, that he had not simply acquired it. . . . The attendant arrived and solved just about all the problems. But would it not be a good idea if all parents marked all the clothes of all their children?