Milford chronicle., 1903-09-04


story as he told it. And the two stories
would be no more alike than the
striped fur Of a panther is like the
white wool of a pet lamb.
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Destroyers OF Character.
So well known is this fact of uncon.
scious alteration, and so painful has
been his experience of its effects, that
one of our best known United States
senators has made it a rule to refuse
all applications for n verbal interview
He has been so often misrepresented
unintentionally that when an inter
viewer comes to him he always says:
write your questions clearly and dis
tinctly upon paper. Then 1 will write
my answers and you must print them
as l give them to you. l do this so that
there may be no misunderstanding be-
tween us There are many social
falsehoOds floating about every com
munity, not because neighbors have
deliberately lied against neighbors, but
because when gossip starts her work
the statements made in reference to a
mans character by oft repetition often
unintentionally become malformed and
satanic and character destroying mon
strOsities.
Social falsehoods are prevalent ev-
erywhere How are we to guard
against them? First and foremost, by
not making ourselves a medium for
their propagation. An aspersion on a
mans character, once started is passed
from lip to lip until the whole cOmmu-
nifty hears it. But the calumny, often
undeserved, might be stopped by the
observation of simple rule. "Never
believe any evil rumor," my father
said, you may hear against your
neighbOr. Never believe it unless you
have positively heard the evil confes-
sion from the mans own lips. and even
then you must hope there is some mis-
take about it," Never allow yourself
to listen to any maligner of an innocent
mans life and thereby make yourself
a party in the crime. Never allow
your imperfect memory to transmit
what idle gossipers and scandal mon
gers may reycl IN. \ fatal lie. like a
wolf in Sleeps clothing, sometimes at /
tempts to robe itself in the garments of 1
But by the execution of the /
two falsiliers of my text we know that /
God will condemn us when we repeat .
an evil report against our neighbors .
unless we positively and without any /
know that what we say .
is true
Parental Dishonesty.
FalsehoOds in the parental world
We would have broadened this head
ing and called it "falsehoods in the
domestic world" but for one reason.
When husband deceives his wife and
4 wife her husband they do it doliber-
aely and premeditatedly They do it
with their eyes wide open, and they
fully realize the enOrmity of their sins
md toward what destructive rocks
hey are heading. But, though a father
never tells a falsehood to his marital
without forethought, that
parent may thoughtlessly fall into the
labit of deceiving his children. They
Ire so young. He thinks they do not
'emember and do not understand. The
same law applies to the wife as well as
o the husband. The mother some day,
Tearied by the perpetual racket, says
o her child, Nov. Harry, if you will
20 to bed this afternoon and take a
lice long nap l will take you out for
'ide this evening" The child goes to
)ed without a murmur. When evening
'omes the mother wishes to do some
hing else. The ride is postponed
What is the result? She deliberately
Freaks her promise. She falsifies De-
.ause she does not think it necessary to
)e honest with her child.
The father comes to the side of the
nvalid's crib and says, "Now. my son.
you are patient and good and will
AXE your medicines as you ought,
When you get well I will give you a
bicycle or Il watch or a printing press
r scroll saw" The sick boy thinks
nd dreams about that coming present.
Sut when the child gets well the bills
egin to come in. The doctors bill
nd the druggists bill and the trained
urse's bill stagger the father. He
eglects his promise. or he says: 'I
annot afford that bicycle now. You
lust wait, my son; you must wait
while" That night the mother says
D her husband: Husband do You
hink it is right not to give the boy his
resent? Remember, you promised |
i'm" "Oh," says the father, he is
My child and will soon forget it,"
viii he forget your promise? Never,
ian, never! A child's mind and heart
re like the rolls of a photographic in
Every time you speak into
child's ears the roll of memory re-
elves an indentation. After awhile /
our human voice may be still, but
lese memory rolls will speak forth
le records of your broken promises
tell you candidly l would sooner lie
} any being on earth than to one of
" own children. If 1 lie to them 1
OF only destroy myself, like Ananias