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

that dnl1lateS humanity, that, the impulse DelLS
in her, a little thought and study will reveal its
opportunity. The man should understand that
in these growing children lies capital OF happl-
ness so much important to his later Ete
than any other capital which he may accumulate
that the latter is practically negligible; that in
their respect, their sympathy, their love, all of
which are to be in their childhood and in
their home circle lies the only real and rich happ1-
ness which come to him in the second halt OF
his mundane period; that in other words, as the
pursuit of happiness is the dominant law of human
life the only possibility of happiness in the last halt
of any life lies in children and in children who have
been loved and cared for in their youth.
What does life offer to any man or woman after
forty-fve? With the woman her beauty has begun
to fail, old age confronts her, generation OF
fresh-faced beauties has long since pushed her to
the wall in the social assembly, and that dsiluslon
which is the inevitable harvest of the years has
stripped the glamour from all the things which in
terested her. Think of the happiness OF the woman
of forty-hve whose interest in life and hold upon
affairs are made intenser and stronger than ever
through her children, compared with the woman
who, equally dislusioned and without children,
has nothing left to struggle for nothing to interest
her. nothing to animate her, to give color to her
cheek and light to her eye nothing but loveless
solitude and burdening despair! Think of the
warmth of love which surrounds the one; the chill
of isolation which envelops the other
With the man. up to forty-ive, the struggle is
all-suficent. If he is a strong man, he loves the
game of wealth, and may be pardoned If. from his
marriage to the zenith of his life, he devOtes most
of his time and thought playing it. But what of
him when his dislusion comes come it
must? What of him when he learns the lesson that
beyond the small limit of his necessities money has
actual value? that the greatest value in
all things human, based upon the pursuit of
happiness, is love? To him, as to the woman, Il
interest in life, love of life, re uvenaton N
and long years lie in the possession of M
children. That woman can nm
live out life practically and successfully N@
without children, is a text which can /S/B /
not be too widely preached M<R &
None the less many fear. They VIM 4
fear that the children may not turn WIN
we'll, may be, instead of MIS-
added blessing, an added burden ENEH
and a source of sharpest pain. IaE6
So they probably will be if MER
elected The harvest of love is MEH
open to all but it is like Nib
any other harvest 1t must be NIB
watched tended and cherished, NNEB
if the harvester is to have his lib
reward The law of life as HyH
must meet it is simple Without MEb
children, its value ceases largely WES
with most people at forty-ive; MEp
including children-they are the MSb
greatest of all blessings in the MSp
later years. but they must be MEn
treasured and appreciated in their MA
earliest years if the blessings My2
to be garnered MVA
These principles apply with equal NNR
force to limited wealthy class and wSN +
to that immense middle class, financially MsS
speaking, which constitutes the mass of NM&
the commonwealth in all countries The ~>
poor upon whom the social superincum- NM
bent pressure falls heaviest, and who are least ~
able to sustain it, do and must do as best they
can But it is of the finest and most splendid
facts in human nature that in the poorest homes
frequently find the most ardent love for children,