Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
ARE PARENTS PEOPLE?
ARE PARENTS
PEOPLE?
BY
ALICE DUER MILLER
AUTHOR OF
"THE HAPPIEST TIMES OF THEIR LIVES," "THE CHARM SCHOOL,"
"COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN," AND "MANSLAUGHTER"
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1924
Copyright, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924
By ALICE DUER MILLER
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC.
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
To
MY MOTHER-IN-LAW
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Are Parents People? | 1 |
| The American Husband | 102 |
| Devoted Women | 129 |
| The Return to Normalcy | 154 |
| The Red Carpet | 179 |
| The Widow's Might | 205 |
| Whose Petard Was It? | 232 |
| The New Stoics | 261 |
| Worse than Married | 277 |
ARE PARENTS PEOPLE?
I
The girls marched into chapel singing Jerusalem the Golden. Some ofthe voices were shrill and piping, and some were clear and sweet; butall had that peculiar young freshness which always makes old heartsache, and which now drew tears to the eyes of many visiting parentslooking down from the gallery, and trying not to crane their necksconspicuously when their own offspring appeared in the aisle below.
On Sundays the whole school came out in blue serge and black velvettam-o'-shanters. The little girls marched first—some as young aseleven years—and as they came from the main school buildings andmarched up the long aisle they were holding the high notes, "Jerusalemthe golden," and their voices sounded like young birds', before theolder girls came crashing in with the next line, "With milk and honeyblest." They marched quickly—it was a tradit