Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-16
A FRIEND IN NEED

~ VIDENTLY a great many of you
II thought that there was little you
- could do for mother which you
left undone. When l suggested that
topic, l wondered just how it would
affect you, and by reading the letters
over as they came I found that nearly
every one of the boys and girls thought
of the same thing, that they might help
their mother in various ways of which
they had never thought before. That
of course was the purpose of the topic.
I had no expectation that so many OF
the Juniors would really admit that
they deliberately neglected certain
things which they knew would please
their mothers.
The idea 1 hoped to bring out was
expressed by one boy when he said he
had Just realized that he might help
more in the house, and relieve his
mother of many steps which she usual
" had to take. I am sorry that more
of the Juniors did not look about for
some new way of helping their mother,
instead of being satisfied to admit neg
lect of we'll known duties in the past
and promising to perform them in the
future. However, it will prove the
Herald Junior of some real value II the
young readers remember these good
resolutions in regard to their home du-
ties. Perhaps it is as we'll to be faith
full and helpful in the we'll known ways
as it is to search for work which Is not
so familiar and will not be done so
we'll.
am hoping for splendid letters con-
corning our heroes. These letters Will
be published on Memorial day. we
can bring no lovelier tribute to those
brave soldiers who have fought and
dad for our country than our small
mite of praise for their noble deeds.
The children of the sunny south
will glorify the heroes of the Confed-
eracy whose acts were none the less
noble because they were not upon the
side of victory, and there are no doubt
many boys and girls of the west who
can tell of brave men who met death
in some battle with Indians or in the
struggles incident to the secession OIL
California from Mexico.
The new topic announced this week is
"A Friend in Need" Now here is a
chance for original letters. The friend
NAV have been person who rescued
YOU from some uncomfortable post
ton or rendered help when trouble was
at hand. or perhaps some devoted dog
or other animal may have come to
your aid at some critical moment.
Even inanimate things may have done
a friendly service which entitled them
to the name of friend. ! have known OF
instances where even one pin or
needle and thread would have seemed
the most friendly thing l could have
met and / dare say you have each eX-
perienced the same feeling of need for
friendly help, important at the moment
although in itself a small thing.
Perhaps it was a chance help with
some puzzling problem in arithmetic,
or rule in Latin that refused to make
itself clear to your mind-at any rate.
you would regard the person or thing
which gave you relief from the troub-
lesome affair as a friend in need,
wouldn't you?
Now it is of such friends in need of
whom we all wish to hear, and l hope
each boy or girl will write down i'm
mediately the story of some particular
ly helpful person or thing which has
come into his or her own life.
Love to you all.