Among the departments in Cornell University's College of Home Economics, one is concerned exclusively with family life. A professor in this department is tiny, motherly Mrs. Ethel B. Waring. Last week Professor Waring gave U. S. mothers a formula, in nine neat points, to solve a baffling problem: how to get Junior to drink his orange juice (or eat his spinach). It took Mrs. Waring 15 years to develop her formula. In the college's laboratory nursery school, she one day decided to take sound movies (unobserved) of her tots' behavior. She found the movies illuminating. Eventually she made a reel showing...
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