Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-06
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went astray and he restrained them
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| What we call character is simply
heredity and environment in comblna-
ton. and heredity being only stored en-
vironment 1t is our bounden duty to-
make that stored environment of the
best quality.
| short time ago I spent day with
friends in the country. They have one
child, a little boy of or 6.
| The father had gone to town with the
understanding that he was to bring
home candy and popcorn, but In the
stress of business it was forgotten. Then
| there was storm, a perfect cloudDurSt
The mother remarked it was such q
shame to disappoint the child, and the
outcome of 1t was that the rather
turned his horse around and drove
back two miles to the nearest store,
while Freddie looked at me with a
CLEAN of triumph in his eyes, as mucn
as to say: Didn't l work Them
What beautiful lessons of patience, OF
self-contro1 and Of unselfishness might
have been taught from that nttle lnci-
dent but they were not. Instead the
very opposite was Observation-Disclosures
| Can we wonder that we have so
MANY wind-blown politicians concerned
only about their own place at the pub
| lie crib and so few real statesmen
whose only good is common good!
Samuel the spotless judge ana
nronhet had sons who were grafters.
they turned aside after lucre and
took brides and perverted Justice
Even SO had good old Eli, whom
Samuel succeeded in office.
Goodness Not Hereditary
Goodness is not hereditary although
the capacity for goodness is. The ten
| u @f t,,IixrfdfIa1q q of INSTITUTIONS
| is to count too much upon the past, for
| getting that virtue cannot be trans
mitted but must be won by each gen
Grafton by itself.
A plant, a person, a nation, left to
itself has a tendency to deteriorate'
The upward trend of life is to be main
tanned only by conscious efort:
redlight district, with all Its damnlng
| influence, is a national calamity ana
| narents who have wept for an errlng
| child would be Mortified If told that
their home training or lack OF nome
| training helped her to life Oh as
| honor. $50 -. ,oa
more girls astray than perhaps any
other one cause. -, i,
eirI not without higher ideals, who
has sold her honor. and believe would
sell her very soul for fine clothes.
THE mother, with tears in her eyes,
hos fold me many times that she can
not understand why 1t is so or why the
LORD has so afflicted her. But an IN
terested spectator can see just Wnere
She helped the pitfall into which her
/ daughter fell
like many another, from babyhood
she was starched and lined up ior
| show and kept on this torture tame
during her waking hours Sne t w.
| fond of pretty clothes and her mother
took mains. even beyond her means, TO
cratifv this trait. She wore her clothes
we'll. looked better than her frlenus'
and this gratifed the vanity OF poth.
she did not want to wear the same
old dress" this week that sne wore on
| some occasion last, and the motner
would sit up nights If necessary TO
| finish the desired garment. Then
when she was about 10 circumstances
changed and those things could no
iongeI be provided, and, as she simply
had to have them, she fell
Ministry Of Dress
clothes have their place. and a
s1ovenIv. unparticular person is to be
desnised. There is the ministry, OF
dress and all of us are more or less
susceptible to its influence. we Ieel
better natured, more charitaply as
posed and more comfortable IN neat,
becoming gown than we do in shappy
gown. ..e.., 4h,ro.
God delights in beautiful Things.
with infinite ingenuity and power ne
made the human form beaut1tul ana
| capable by the gracefulness or lts lorll
and the harmony of its parts OF PRO-
ducing the purest pleasure TO the CD
server.
This matter Of dress is important be-
cause II has so much to do with public
morals Then let us be careful, Dotn
nv example and by precept, to teacn
orr children, and especially our girls,
lust what place dress should occupy;
what our clothing, like the framing OF
a picture, should be in harmony, taste
full, neat and modest, calling attention
10 the picture within the frame rather
than the frame itself. Make people
| sae Won rather than the clothes you
wear. Is this true of this seasons mil
linery2 Do not the hats fairly scream,
calling attention to themselves rather
than to the wearer!
Let us teach them that clothes alone
will not make anyone beautiful, that
to look beautiful one must have foun-
dation which is deeper than soup-poWl
hats and directoire gowns. When we
can Undue our children with Whole-
some respect for honest labor and teach
them to be more concerned about char
| acter than about clothes these haunts
of sin will die a natural death for want
of victims.
Gambling vs0 Prizes
Then we have the craze of gambling.
Until the last meeting OF our iegls-
lature we had race track ganpllins,
with every year it's accompanying
quota of holdups, murders and sui
cides. We have our disgraceful prize
fights. where money is constantly
changing hands, money that ought TO
| GO for food and for baby's shoes.
Whence this excited craving to win
| something for nothing by the mere
chance of luck? Where are many OF
those gamblers made?
Is there anything in our home Ire
which has a tendency to cultivate this
! shirt? Is there any relation between
the progressive bridge whist ana pro-
| gressive euchre parties and the scenes
in a gambling joint?
The one, which is surrounded by cut
ture and refinement in the home, we
call a card party; the other we call
| gambling because the, environment is
| different But is not the principle III
each just the same?
Is there any difference between play
ing for a piece of silver nodded in the
shane Of money and silver nodded III
the shane of a loving cup or thimble?
Whenever property changes hands
over the luck of cards, no matter how
| small is the value of the prize, 1t is
| gambling. The presence Of culture and
genius may embellish but can never
dignity 1t.
There is absolutely no harm in the