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[BOYS • » « Stun a
Anyone who has been around
r small boys knjvs vhat a machine
f S*n sounds like. I don’t know how,
i make that sound, or how to spell
y, but there isn’t a boy of five years
' ^oW or more who doesn't spend at
j toast part of each day imitating a
Aihantchme gun, or an ack-ack gun,
, Fa» he “mows down” his friends, his *
’/eats and his dogs.
[ Warfare, patterned after the
t fffcetchy knowledge which small'
^tojys have of what is going on in Eu-
.*ope and the Pacific today, has be*;
J oome the schoolboy's favorite game.
, Migging foxholes has taken the
.} gface of building huts, shooting toy
7 guns is considered more fun than
f . torowing balls and “dive-bombing”
j; anything in sight is a thrilling pas-
r ! Mine.
' " Even before he is old enough to
'.•uead the newspapers, a boy of today
. gets a thorough education in war-
tore. He listens to radio programs
toeming with stories of battle, of
bombings and of killing. He learns,
before he has any idea what a Jap
«r a Nazi might be, that those
' . **mes are the symbol of things to
bate. He looks through so-called
.eemic books and again gets the
•tory of war, with pictures. He
toams that villainous looking char
acters are Japs and Nazis. And he ’
then goes out, with toy gun or stick
fti hand, to shoot up the neighbor- '
; *ood and murder the miniature
“"Nazi’’ next door who broke his
Mfrtxm, or to knife the “Jap” who
:refused to give him a, piece of
• candy.
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Wxfd Parcnfhood
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MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS
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Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine
GOOD GROOMING ESSENTIAL
Mothers are more and more com
ing to realize that sons, as well as
daughters, need training in basic
good grooming and that this train
ing should go far beyond the age-
old struggle over a clean neck and
ears, even to including instruction
In the proper use of toilet prepa
rations.
In the matter of facial hygiene it
is especially neglectful to allow a
boy to establish his own standards
of cleanliness or to choose thought
lessly the soap and lotions he uses.
And when it comes time for him to
shave do not allow his touchy in
sistence that this is a highly per
sonal rite to prevent your seeing
that he has expert advice as to
method of using the razor and guid
ance in the selection of soaps,
creams and antiseptics.
The advent of shaving so often
ushers in a Crop of pimples that
some immediate connection other
than the adolesoent speeding up of
glandular activity seems likely.
Careless shaving may cause tiny
abrasions in the skin through which
bacteria, always present on the
Skin, find their way. Or too much
pressure on the razor may force
these organisms into the hair folli
cles or sweat glands. Certainly ev
ery precaution, few of which a boy
would think of for himself, stibuld be
taken to make shaving as antisep
tic a process as possible. Dipping
the razor and blade into boiling hot
water both before and after shav
ing is one method of discouraging
bacterial growth. Since the skin
cannot stand sufficient heat to steri
lize it, an after-shaving lotion with
an antiseptic base should be used.
And don’t be too sure your son
wouldn’t like it nicely perfumed!
But preparation of the boy’s skin
for the rigors of shaving should be
gin in boyhood. A good cream soap
applied with sponge or complexion
brush does a more thorough job
than a few swift dabs with a wash
cloth. The use of a slightly astrin
gent lotion should begin early, too.
Anything which gives the blood a
special reason for rushing to the
surface, be it cold air, ice, ex r-
cise or an astringent lotion, helps
keep the blood vessels of the skin
from acquiring sluggish habits.
Boys have long been vocal on : -
what they don’t like about a girl’s ; :
grooming—chipped nail , polish, too
much lipstick, hair that needs a
shampoo are a few of the items
that copie in for scathing remarks.
Girls, however, have been more
timid about criticizing similar ‘
makeshifts'6n", the part of boys,
such as. slapdash; hair combs and
tumbling socks. But there are a
few masculine illusions they have
lately set about to destroy. One of
these is the notion that boys don’t
need underarm deodorants.
Most mothers nowadays are care
ful to instruct their sons as well
as their daughters in underarm hy
giene. But with boys you Can’t stop
with instruction—you’ll have to
see that deodorants occupy a prom
inent place on bathroom shelves.
Boys aren’t inclined to buy personal
cosmetics for themselves — they
won’t go much beyond hair prep
arations if left to do their own shop
ping.
Of course, bathing daity or often-
er is the first, requisite for prevent
ing underatm or any other body
odor. But because perspiration has
so little opportunity, to evaporate in
the armpit,' a deodorant, anti-
perspirant, or possibly both are
required to keep the perspiration
from fermenting and giving off an
acrid odor. One thing to stress,
especially with boys, is that once
the need for a deodorant arises, us
ing one is a year-round, as well as
a lifetime procedure. Wearing coats
and sweaters in winter creates an
even greater obstacle to. body fresh
ness tbqn the more open perspiring
brought on by summer tempera
tures.
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. . . schools
Whether this war game mania
wfll do any permanent harm to the
. ; youth of America is a subject which
‘ is being constantly debated in edu-
: oational circles.
;. Some school teachers maintain
, ;that it is perfectly natural and
’larmless. They point out that
- ; “playing soldier’’ has always been
iavorite occupation of boys and
present activities are just a
--modemized version at a somewhat
-.'M^jacreased tempo. ■
f But a principal of a grammar
, ^school, who has been studying the
: situation closely, both in his own
- school and other schools in his state,
, 1 told «r e that he has almost daily
javidence to show how'these
i “games” are breeding trouble. He
'told me of cases where neighbor-
gangs—gangs of five to ten ■
_ elds—will, after playing war
awhile, decide to invade a back-:
xd down the street and capture;
seriously beat up the youngster i
prho is innocently bolding that “pill,
Sox”. He said that, since the war. •
■ Me has had more complaints than j
C r before from mothers who say,
ir child was pounced upon going ‘
, Ms or from school.
He thinks there is no doubt about <
< fact that the war spirit in young-,
s is being expressed in unfair;
unsportsmanlike acts and will i
nitely harm their characters un-;
drastic steps are taken, both St if'
le and in schools, to counteract *
-SJSSSON rules
X can see the difficulty, in our ,
school systems, of trying to teach
Miildren about “our friends and
neighbors across the seas’’ when
toey are reading and hearing about
fee fiendish acts committed by some
M those neighbors. It’s a hard thing
Ttoo to teach boys not to fight bmong
idem selves when, ever since they
Bierc torn, thev have been kept con-
* jtantly aware of fighting on a gi-1
gantic scale.
But rather than avoid the subject
•f war in the schools, it seems quit#, 1
possible that the war can be used to.
' leach children the basic ingredient*!
of a peaceful life. It can easily bo;
demonstrated to children that their
fathers and brothers are fighting the
Japs and Nazis because these na-
.. tions were poor sports and wouldn’t
; stick to the rules. They can be
shown that the Nazis are being pun-,
ished for having tried to pick on 1
some little nations that weren’t their!
size, that the United States won’t
stand for gangster methods between 1
nations any more than it will at 1
kome. And they can be educated |
lo understand that unfair and un- ;
sportsmanlike acts among school
children can’t be tolerated any more
than can such acts among the fami-.
•ty of nations. \
* It seems to me that the present,
war offers a fine opportunity to
teach children the consequences of
poor sportsmanship—to use the
Japs and Nazis as glowing exam
ples of what happens to nations or
individuals who break the rules. \
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