Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-17

ooD fatherly advice was given by
~ President Roosevelt to the gradu-
ates OF a school In Georgetown
- one day last week. II should be
Us read and reread in the family
- Or Il emphasizes the rules Of con-
duct which makes for family happiness
and character. He said In part:
Each one OF you here knows that her
mother has had at times a pretty hard
time OF IL with her and her sisters and
brothers, and. parenthetically. II there Is
anyone OF you that does not realize that,
then for Heavens sake let her realize IL
az once. Let her understand how much
she owes to her mother Let her realize
that the life In the family circle, which
Is usually shaped predominantly for
good OF for evil by the mother even more
than by the father, Of necessity means.
II II r. a worthy life, a life both Of effort
and OF self-sacri6ce that It means q life
OF constant renunciation, sometimes Of
big pleasures. sometimes of little pleas
ures-not the occasional spectacular re-
nunoiation which receives praise, but the
endless renunciation, in which the per-
son benefited may never know that the
other has renowned any pleasure at all.
Yet the life of renunciation and effort
which most OF you will be called upon to
lead will nevertheless contain more real
happiness than any life OF self-indulgence
could ever give.
TN forming lofty ideals as to what you
are going TO do In great crises, remem-
Der that the only possible way by which
, any one Of you can At herself to meet
great crisis IL by doing all of the ordi-
nary humdrum JNorkaday duties as those
workaday dudes arise. 1 am speaking
this to you. but It does not apply only to
you. 1t applies to every man and every
woman Who counts in the world
You are going to be happy and add to the
hezi iTess Of others, or are going to be
.everse Of happy yourselves and a
source Of unhapplness to others primarily
as you do or do not perform faithfully
and regularly the ordinary, commonplace
duties OF life. / do not want any one OF
you to be primarily concerned with saving
your own soul. Look out for the souls
and bodies OF those around you, and the
salvation OF your own soul will come incl
dentally Do your duty to your neighbor;
try to serve him or her effectively; try
to help him In body, try to help him, in
soul, and you will thereby help your own
soul far more effectively than II you spend
your time in morbid self-searchings about
merely your own soul Practice steadily
the doctrine Of useful service for others
and, above ALL for those nearest you.
Keep steadily before you the ideal Of
homely duty well performed. Let your
ideal be one Of service toward others ;
but Of service rendered in a spirit of en-
tire self-respsot The first lesson for
anyone to learn is unselnshness, of
thoughtfulness for others, of effort to do
what is best and most pleasant for others.
Vet even this unselnshness can do in the
long run no good TO other people IL you
fan in good sense. II you grow weak or
moFbid or do not preserve your own self
respect.
''YPu mothers are not doing good to
daughter or son. you are doing harm,
and tpe greatest harm to them, II you fail
to brNpg them UP to realize that the
world a rough world; that they will
not fnd It an easy thing to get along In
1t; that fay will havo to struggle, TO fight,
to holdN-eir own; and yet that It is their
prime fihty to consider others no less than
themselves. Above all, teach that the
first duty Is TO the family and within It,,
and that the greatest success, the highest
happiness, comes oply through the right
type Of family nfe.''