BOXING FATHER’S RESOLVE

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 15 (Supplement)

BOXING FATHER’S RESOLVE

Jack Dempsey’s Child Must “Be A Lady” TOAN ANN DEMPSEY, the eight- " months-old baby of a famous father, is “going to be a lady.” Both Jack' Dempsey and his wife, a former musical comedy actress under the name of Hannah Williams,

have set their hearts on this achievement.

They expain their views in two articles appearing in a periodical. Joan is to have an English, nurse so that she may speak Oxford English* and cultivate the best manners. “She will hear enough Americanisms at home,”: writes the former world champion, whose new Broadway bar is ail the rage in New York at the moment.

Joan is to be a very modern girl, Her fond father looks forward to her learning how to drive a motorcar, pilot an aeroplane, how to dance, sing, ride, and shoot. She must learn to be a critic of painting, music, and literature, because “Joan must be able to carry on a conversation no matter what subject crops up.” Her diet is being regulated on the most modern lines. Dempsey has a fierce hatred of a pampered child and believes in tempering kindness with wise severity. “I’Ve met,” he declares, “a lot of nui- V sauces, but the prize nuisance is a badly , brought up child.

“The best you can hope for from such a youngster is' jam on ydur shirtfront and goldfish in your hair Yoh mayhave to stop a playful right hook to. your eye. ’ “I feel sorry for parents with, such children. Their -best friends refuse to tell them that it .would be a plea-sure-to, strangle such? offspring.” Joan is to be trained for a career, but hjack is' not above hoping to see her happily married. Joan’s mother says the child takes after daddy. She has his* hair, eyes, and “powerfully-built shoulders.” Also his .which Mrs Dempsey proudly quotes artists as having said are the two finest they have ever seen; • : . ' .