New-York tribune., 1905-11-05


cor, r,roud1,, saw are essentially American, and
which have made country what 1t IS. Inc
scene speak of is that IN which, after the missing
son has been found after the lesson has been learned
after the dead life with its dead millions IN chlId-
less home has been awakened to new and VIVID
beauty bv the finding of the lost one-the scene
following this in which the father sits down to really
get acquainted with his son.
| do not think any can read this without
a ouickening of his pulses; there are few fathers
who can read it without tears coming to their
ewes The tragedy is so great and so clear: a boy
of splendid possibilities neglected by his father
and mother that the On possible future before MN
was the selfish, idle, worthless manhood Whlcn
parental neglect had forced upon him. Providence
through the rough hand of a weatherbeaten ankee
fishinocantain had wrought the wondrous trans
formation. How deeply this truly American NIL
lionaire felt how great his unspoken gratitude
to that fisherman, how warm and deep and tender
was the love in his heart for his precious son. ruined
bv his money getting neglect and saved as by a
miracle the reader feels and it would be well II
all men could read and feel 1t, whether they have
sons or not.
In the same line of development is the true story
of an eminent Wall Street fnancier who SAID:
Friends? All the friends l have earth are
under nv own roof He expressed fact which
some other men realize keeny. But with all his
wonderful genius as a financier he was man who
loved his family and loved to be with his children,
and richer than any other reward which lie
brought him was the love and sympathy OF MS
home circle.
The home of anv man or woman, boy or gi11, IS
the one and only place on earth that IS character
lied by a community of interests 1t is the one and
ONLY scene of mutual service and mutual sacr11ce,
the only place where the personal touch, born
of affection and educated by experience, can
play its part in the formation OF character
IA Yet home life, in New-Iork at least, IS
. coming to be a shrunken and shriv-
MN e1ed thing.
ANN Love alone can constitute the home
AAN as it should be 1t is not that our
ANN mothers and fathers lack love for
SAA their children; the evil is that the
ANN financial and social pressure of
ANN modern American life leave them
aSW no time to express that love IN
ANN the careful consideration which
4 AVN childhood demands But this
AM can be met by the education OF
dzM public opinion and | believe
All fully met | believe that the
SIN clergvmen of all denominations
dAE can find no more valuable precePt
i askI to impress than the value, the
8 I'M need the honor and the glory OF
y mi the home circle believe that
dlFt the editors of daily newspapers
JfEI in preaching the precePt, the
dsHI editors of weeklies and magazines
ash in explaining the practice, can DO
4gN the widest possible national COED
qSA in building up the Home IseLd
YfN as well as the Home Beautiful
I 2<H Not only good men come from good
? VEE/ homes, but good citizens as we'll
fYX/ citizens as alive to the municipal IS
vfM/ to the national need.
M/ The ONLY solution of the marriage
NJ question will be found in the Guahty- the
education, the preparation, OF those "--'
marry, and this preparation can be gwen en-t
in the home Let it be remembered IN our school
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