Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17
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practical mendicants, but this Is the way
| daughters are led to feel when compeiieo
| each time to ask for what they want, as
| the result Of earning no money and having
| no income by her parents own wishes.
| Even though pence are ungrudglngly given
when asked for, there is misery In hay
| ing it to do which Is distaste1ul TO the
| highly spirited woman.
| When a girl is growing older than youth
| she should be relieved from enduring any
| thing which may be difficult FOR sensitlve
nature to endure, If she is not allowed to
| work and maintain her own establishment
| some adequate provision should be MADE
| for her. If her parents have ample means
an allowance should be made and paid at
stipulated intervals and she should manage
| 1t as she pleases, without the Illuminating
| necessity of rendering an account.
Judicous parents of both moderate ana
| immoderate means make preparation on the
allowance" plan when their daughters are
| children, and accustom them to the man
agement of a small sum, which is Increased
| with the years. Only by the actual man
agement of money does a person arrive at
the stage when 1t is regarded with the
proper measure OF respect and appreciation.
In the beginning the girl. of course. knows
nothing of the value of money. IT she is
intrusted with funds and guided in their
use she by degrees learns to exercise
stewardship and learns to control her imam
cial affairs.
If child is to have but 10 cents a week
1t should be given to him regularly and he
should be permitted independence in Its dis
position. girl should be allowed to work
at whatever calling is the most congenial
If she ardently desires to become bread
winner and choose honorable vocation.
The thing one ardently wishes to do Is apt
to be their success germ working in and
through them. and 1t should not be stif1ed.
Work Is many a wonan's salvation.
Grant your children an allowance as their
right. and start them in the right direction.
The Parent
Owes a special duty to the erring child.
Mothers and fathers have sometimes felt
they have endured to the last straw and
have been induced to harden their hearts to
their own flesh and blood. The great rec
ords of eternity will record pitiable cases,
and 1t will tell two stories-one of victory
and the other of defeat Parents who can
bear their own faults should also bear the
errors of their children. A child's suffer-
ings claim a parents pity
young man whose doors had been locked
on him and whose fathers voice had said:
II will bear with you no longer; go where
you will. do what you will. but ask nothing
more of me-" sa. one Christmas eve In the
hotel corridor Of a northern Wisconsin
town. His face was handsome, but bore
the marks of great dissipation. Tears rose
from his heart and gathered to his eyes.
showing the tenderness of a woman's love,
and now on this Christmas eve he was
longing for home and mother.
He had been cast from the love OF home
because he drank. For months he had
drifted One night he was thrown from a
car while Intoxicated. and was taken into
a nearby home. They cared for him. they
prayed for him. and when he was better
they never mentioned the wrecking tempta-
ton that had overcome him. but lovingly
they fed his every want but one-home.
Through the efforts of these utter strang-
ers and their care in time of need his
ideals returned to him and he gave up the
sins that seemed about to ruin him. and on
the eve that he told his story was going
father and mother knew not the real heart
of their son or patience and tenderness,
chartableness and long suffering would
have helped him back. for hope Is not gone
faults do not need sympathy and care. 1t
Is the erring ones who require our best
Then 1t is that devotion must stand at the
helm.
Complaint
Is constantly being made against the clerk
in the store. that servant OF humanity who
stands six days out Of every week from in
the morning until at night and answers
questions and pulls down and puts back
box after box. bolt after bolt. yard after
yard and article after article. The shop
girl owes something to the customer 1t Is
true and the customer admits this But
likewise and just as certainly the customer
owes something to the shop girl. and this
the average customer forgets
Standing while waiting for package I
saw sweet-faced girl approach a woman
who stood looking at some pillows. Some
thing 1 can show you. madam? and madam
turned upon her with scowl that would
have withered the hardest flower and
snapped, Cant you let me alone for a few
moments until l find out what / want?"
Yet had not one gone to wait upon her, she
Is the one who would have gone searching
for a floor walker to see she was waited
upon.
Too many customers approach the shop
girl with an arrogance that even she will
not accept. Some one, bediamoned and
gayly gowned, will approach the girl and
say in a tone she would not use to her
little dog Show some silk to match
this sample" She exasperates the girl at
the outset, and If sparks do not fly ten
chances to one II Is because the shop girl
brings her self-control to bear.
A smile and a kind word to those whom
we expect to serve us brings from them
their best. Eager they are then to please.
There's nothing in this wide world like
sympathy. The flowers feel It In the rays
OF the sun, dumb brutes detect 1t In the
movements of their master, a son worships
1t in his mother. and. really, the shop girl
appreciates II in her customer.
MAUDE WINIFRED ROGERS