Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05


can proudly say essentially American, and
which have made country what it is The
scene speak of is that in which, after the missing
has been found after the lesson has been learned
after the dead life with its dead millions in child
less home has been awakened to and vivid
beauty by the finding of the lost one-the scene
following this in which the father sits down to really
get acquainted with his
| do not think any read this without
a quickening of his pulses there few fathers
who read it without tears coming to their
eyes. The tragedy is great and so clear: boy
of splendid possibilities neglected by his father
and mother that the only possible future before him
was the selfish idle, worthless manhood which
parental neglect had forced upon him. Providence
through the rough hand of a weatherbeaten Yankee
fishing captain, had wrought the wondrous trans
formation. How deeply this truly American mill
lionaire felt, how great was his unspoken gratitude
to that fisherman, how warm and deep and tender
was the love in his heart for his precious son. ruined
by his money-getting neglect and saved as by
miracle the reader feels, and it would be well if
all men could read and feel it, whether they have
sons not.
In the same line of development is the true story
of an eminent Wall Street tnanCier who said:
Friends? All the friends | have on earth are
under my own roof" He expressed a fact which
some other realize keenly But with all his
wonderful genius a tnancier he was man who
loved his family and loved to be with his children,
and richer than any other reward which life
brought
home circle.
The home of any man or woman, boy girl, is
the one and only place earth that is character
lied by a community of interests. 1t IS the one and
only scene of mutual service and mutual sacrltce,
the only place where the personal touch, born
of affection and educated by experience can
\ play its part in the formation of character
n Yet home life, in New-York at least, is
NM coming to be a shrunken and shr1v-
NNA eled thing.
NMN Love alone can constitute the home
NM as it should be. 1t is not that
NN mothers and fathers lack love for
SAM their children; the evil is that the
ANN financial and social pressure of
ANN modern American life leave them
AAM no time to express that love in
ANN the careful consideration which
dAM childhood demands But this
aEE can be met by the education of
daM public opinion, and | believe
Am fully met. l believe that the
d8n cergvmen of all denominations
SsH can find no more valuable precept
dXn to impress than the value the
dsn need the honor and the glory of
q I'M the home circle. | believe that
dEM the editors of daily newspapers
dNN preaching the precept the
aEM editors of weekies and magazines
SLIM in explaining the practice, do
9fN the widest possible national good
9fW in building up the Home Useful"
MN as well as the Home Beautiful"
4 SIM Not only good men come from good
l1ZHJ homes but good citizens we'll
0NJ citizens as alive to the municipal
pSMy to the national need.
@Mw The only solution of the marriage
nv question will be found in the quality, the
education, the preparation, of those who
marry, and this preparation can be given only
in the home Let it be remembered in school
systems, lower and higher, that no education IS
good which does not make men more manly and