Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-08

ural bend as a living sacrifice to some
| family calling.
| Jones is lawyer. He has three sons.
| AS they grew up Jones began casting about
| to ascertain which boy desired to follow in
| his fathers footsteps. One day he discov-
cred to his chagrin that each boy had his
heart set upon some other line or en-
| deavor than the law. Then Jones tired TO
| talk one of the youngsters II no matter
which one-into study of the law 1t was
| matter of family pride with him-some
one in the family had been a lawyer for
many generations back. But his arguments
! We're of no avail, and finally, in his obtuse-
| ness and anger. he arbitrarily informed his
| second son that he would have to take up
| law, willy nilly.
| The boys natural inclinations were for
| electricity, then coming to the fore. He
| had to put away, best he could, all
! dreams of dynamos and such things and
| enter the law school. There he made out
| SO miserably that lie was one year longer
| than the average student in getting through;
| and though he began practice with his IA
! Tiers name back of him. he made an
! equally poor showing fl ON the very start.
! At last, utterly disguised with everything
| legal, he tore down his shngie, and, years
| after he should have been permitted TO do
| so, turned to his first and only love. In
| this field he Is slowly but surely making
! his mark: but 10 matter what success he
| may attain, he Will always feel that If his
| father had only given him square deal as
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| than he ever hope to do now with his
| time and energies.
| A square deal is also decidedly lacking
| for those children whose sickly or invalid
| brother or sister takes up completely the
\ thong hts time and attention of the parents.
! Henry Holmes had Il withered leg. He
! was the youngest of three children, the
| others being girls In order to have him
cured, if possible, his parents spent the
greater part of their days taking him from
| place to place and remaining with him.
! leaving the daughters TO the tender mercies
| of old maiden aunt This they did for
/ nearly five years. and in all that time the
girls spent only one Christmas holiday with
| their parents.
Finally the boy was brought home on the
! high road to recovery. and the whole family
| rejoiced, the girls doub1y so, because
now" they said gleefully. well have
| father and mother, truly and really, like
| other girls.
But alas for their rosy dream. Two
J persons who call themselves father and
mother were in the same house with them,
| but so wrapped up were they IN the boy
| that they had only had polite attention for
| the girls who were constantly being re-
| minded that Henry was the first to be
| thought of in everything.
| Thus after five years of patient, uncom-
| planning waiting under the sharp and un-
| sympathetic eyes of their aunt the girls
| were denied square deal, when 1t could
| have been given to them without the least
| harm to Henry's health and certainly to the
| decided betterment of his disposition, which
| speedily developed an unmstakable selfish
| streak.
A Square Deal for All.
| But right here went on the Married Man.
| let me vary this recital of unfair deals by
telling of family of four children who got
| a square deal all round from the time they
| left the cradle.
In the first place. the eldest was not for
| ever being reminded that he should serve as
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place not one of the children can recall any
time when either parent showed Partially
| of any sort to any child. In the third place,
each had the same sized money allowances
| from time to time and practically the same
| amount and quality of clothing. In the
fourth place, when child was given
| amusement of a certain form, the others
| were sure of receiving its equivalent as
! matter of course. In the fifth place, the
| two boys were not forced into taking up
| any line of work uncongenial to them, be-
| cause there was a family pride to be sat
| isfed, or for any other reason Ana as for
! the education of both boys and girls each
received as much preparation for llfes work
| as one-fourth the sum of money the father
| could spare to spend for this Item could
| afford.
/ All the way through the square deal was
| handed out all round. In fact. SO square
| were the parents that today no child &C
cuses another of being the parents favorite.
/ but all unite in saying that they don
know and never were able to get an mixing
! as to who was the fathers who the
mothers.
And the result?
Well not so very long ago this family had
| a reunion. 1t was summer, and they gath
| cred on the big veranda of the old home
one evening. The next day neighbor
| dropped in and in the course of the CONVEX
| sation said impulsively:
Il just couldn't help staying out on my
| porch last night and listening to you all
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| I've ever known anything about"
| 1t is a happy family and largely because
| each of it's members has received a square
| deal from all the others. For when parents
| see to It that their children get a square
4! deal all round, each child VIII deal sQuarely
| with the others. and all the children will
unite in giving their forbears the honor and
| reverence justly due them.