THE NAUGHTY CHILD

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 5

THE NAUGHTY CHILD

DELIGHTS TO MAKE MOTHER , SHIVER.B.M.A. CONGRESS DISCUSSES POSITION. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received Julv 26, 9.5-5 p.m.) LONDON, July _6. Doctors discussing naughty children at the British Medical Association’s Congress, Portsmouth, described how some revel in naughtiness for tho sheer pleasure, reducing their parents to a state, of nervous prostration. Dr. Cameron, one of the greatest authorities on children, instanced the> case of a giyl aged ten, wlio.se mother was distressed because the child was horribly interested in deaths and murders. “When we returned to the waiting room where the child was left while the mother consulted ■ me,” ho said, “wo found a charming little girl ail smiles and dimples. Siie had selected a .book on .skin diseases from a book-ca.se and v.as looking at an unpleasant illustration. The mother turned pale, and threw up her hands in horror. Then the chi d dosed tho book, with a smile of utter satisfaction, having achieved her object, which was .simply to make her mother sill ver.”—A. and N.Z.C.A.