So you have to write a paper for the Eurydice club, and you "don't know how to do it". Well, my dear, if you know that you know more than some club women I have met.
Of approximately one million children in Iowa one-tenth are constitutionally, mentally or physically defective and the remaining nine hundred thousand are the so-called "normal group". But, are any of this latter group really normal? If we use as our standards the best that Iowa can produce, is each child developing according to his maximum ability? Are special mental and physical defects being removed? What are the methods used to develop Iowa's children? How may we conserve the good qualities of each child and improve them?
Do you love to look at pretty dishes, linen, and silver? I do! Just to see a quaint Royal Doulton tea pot gives me a thrill and why shouldn't it? It is instinctive ·for a woman to enjoy pretty table appointments. And it is often true that a woman expresses her personality more exactly in the selection of her linen, silver, and dishes than in any other of her house furnishings.
With the coming of warm weather the shops are bringing forth large varieties of materials and styles suggestive of refurnishing the children's wardrobe for spring. There seems to be everything from gay little romper suits to the sheer little dresses of organdy, The pleats, ruffles, rosebuds, applique, and embroideries remind us that the frills and furbles for children's clothes follow the whims of Dame Fashion the same as do those of the grown ups.