The Mother's Approval and Possibilities of Success

Approval or permission! People get it into their heads that they would like to do some music, because it is the fashion or because they like it so much and the Mother may tolerate it and say "All right, try." That does not mean they are predestined or doomed to be musicians―or poets or painters according to the case. Perhaps one of them who try may bloom, others drop off. X starts painting and shows only a fanciful dash at first, after a time he brings out remarkable work. Y does clever facile things; one day he begins to deepen and a possible painter in the making outlines; others―well, they don't. But they can try―they will learn something about painting at least.

May, 1935