Soon after twelve the families be-Jean to arrive. Mothers and babies had be tabellad; green labels for mothers, green labels with scarlet tags for the children, ordinary labels {for luggage and perambulators, blue Jones for helpers. Safely labelled, we started to walk to the station, "For sume reason, never explained, the first-day children had ridden in. buses, but_mothers and babies had to walk. T had my own satchel and someone else's child; then for a time jo suitcase until a kind little man, took it from me. "We passed an icejeream trolley and were told to load the luggage on to that, and it went Johead "of us to the' station, Jarrived far too early, the "children under five" "got het and. cross, Punched their loving fathers in the face, ate oranges, chewed the scarlet tags' off the labels, and were given drinks of water by the helpers. Policemen talked to us, and. instructed, "Five children and five adults to each compartment." Most of the children had never been in a train before and shouted with joy when they saw It feome for us with a special label also fon its breast.
Sweet and Crumby When the doors were shut I dis-Jcovered myself in charge of five mothers and seven children; one very small indeed, the rest very lively. it was hot, and with difieulty we got both "windows open. Sweet and Jerumby biscuits were distributed; the mother of a tiny baby fed it, ate apples, and smoked a cigarette. Five children went to sleep eventually, tone on my knee and one almost on the floor. "We sped through the Potleries and farther Into the country, Two of the mothers had children already there and told me they had had "lovely" letters from "lovely" ladies saying that the "kiddies" were well and happy. We stopped at a small, black-gravelled "station and were told that we had arrived.
'The Jatest example of the "get together" tendeinj of Americans is, the formation.of a National Grandmothers' Club, whose object ts "to make the world recognize grandmothers as a social force and to dispel the Idea that grandmotherhood mule 'a woman on the shelf." To this end the club is agitating ior the observance throughout the country of an annual Grandmother's Day, on the patton of the Mother's Day, which, found. its way into the National calendar several years ago, Some of the local trenches of the club are giving evidence of the vigour fand enterprise of their members, The other day the Queen Mary—a vessel named, it has been noted, in honour of a very active grandmother arrived jin New York, bringing among her passengers a group. of seven lively grandmothers from Battle Creek, Michigan, who had been making a_six weeks" tour of England and the Scandinavian countries, In Wor-cooster, Mass, eleven grandmothers are combining to practise swimming in formation. Riding, skating, and tennis are also popular with' these emancipated old ladies, and it is reported that on midweek mornings many an American golf course nowadays is "grey. with grandmothers."
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