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HOT ITY NUISANCES
By Leon . .Dean
(Copied by permission from bother':
Homo Life and the Household Guest.'
Once upon a time, long, long ago,,
there vas a custom built upon
neighborliness and mutual under
standing. According to this old '
custom, a child would ask of his .
mother if he might go and play
v;ith a neighboring friend. He
might, if fortunate, be given the
permission. The good fortune,
however, was very often restricted
by the demand that he be home at
a certain hour. The mother,know-'
ing that children can be a nuisance
might even go so far as to inquire
of the neighbor if the visit
would be convenient. The custom,
like many another based on the
spirit of consideration for others,
has now become more or less ob
solete .
I may be old-fashioned, but I
don't want my children to be a
nuisance to the neighbors-. Those
neighbors may have enough to do
taking care of their, own children
without taking care of mine. Or
it may be that they are already
overrun with the children of other
fool
0T,2,i,i
i?
Lib.: I don't
burden, and
o'add to their
I fool that they will bo grato
ful to mo for keeping my
at homo.
when wise parents
children
Thsre crj times, too,
want their child
ren to play alone, and when they
themselves want to bo alone. I do
n't want my children to intrude on
this privacy to which nrr neighbors
are entitled. I think that my neigh
bors have the right to name the time
when my child ron and other child
ren shall visit their home. Then
there are the neighbors who have
no children, I should dislike to
think that my children wore on
roaching upon their seclusion and
being an annoyance to them. I do
not want my children to grow up
with the habit of running over
everybody. I want jbhem to grow up
with a sense of responsibility and
consideration towards others."
Once upon a t5.me, long, long, ago,
in less turbulent ago, when young
i people wore more often reminded of
tholr place in society and license
to do as one pleased was not .so pop
ular, children were taught to re
gard property rights.
I may bo antiquated, but I don’t
want to bring up ny children to be
a nuisance by disregarding property
rights. I have an idea, founded
somewhat on observation, that my
neighbors do not want children
beating a path across their yards
or crowding through their hedges.
Strange as it may seem, there are
.people, I believe, oven in this free
for-all age, who would prefer not
to have their flower borders tramp
led or their shrubs broken down.
And it may be that they want their
fruit for themselves. I have heard
of children that even the stringing
of rope or wire wouldn't keep out.
Conceivably such children might be
considered a nuisance by anyone
but themselves or their parents.
It was with a great deal of gusto
that a girl described how she and
[a party of friends broke into a
summer camp. I have ha.d my own
camp broken into by a party of high
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