Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-28

YeStercay a NONE WAS tslhii-s aOOI.
the high prices and hard times Her
husband is in business for himself. As IL
i a business that is not one OF LIES
necessities he is not making the money
that high prices demand for even . com
Portable living. She looked csreworn and
admitted that she was nearly crazy, that
for the first time in her married life she
Is behind with her grocer. Il did want
~ nav YOU she said TO a companion,
hut il was out OF the question
of course her friend said It did not mat
ser when she got her money. Then u
developed that her little boy wanted a
hEcxcle. that all the boys in his neigh
l,orhood had them and he was out OF
exarvthing. She wound up by saying that
she didn't know whether he would get
one or not. that she was straining every
nerve to get one for him.
After the parties left I'thought ABOUT
il and was really sorry that l had no'
known that mother well enough 10 give
her straight. plain talk. There she
was making excuses for not paying
debt of ed money. giving as an
excuse such hard times that her grocer
was having TO wait. yet not having seii-
denial enough TO see other children witp
more than she can honestly get for hers
That Is why penitentiaries and various
nlaces are filled with men and women
who have failed TO resist temptation
Many a mother Is TO blame for her daugh-
tsr-s downfall She didn't have courage
10 tell the little child that her father was
not able 20 get the things that her play
mates had she probably did as TINS
mother Is doing-pinching and leaving
debts unpaid in order to keep up with
more prosperous people. and teaching the
child that she must sacrifice everything
for show.
To be strong and to resist temptation
requires much self-denial. but IL pays IN
the end. There never was a mother who
did things OF that sort without under
mining in a measure her child's ideal OF
honesty. Their little eyes are quick 10
see and their hearts prone to remember
the subterfuges and receptions practiced
in their homes, and unconsciousy every
man and woman measures the world by
their childhood homes
Self-denial. like every other virtue. has
40 be strengthened from infancy Be
cause a child wants a thing is no good
reason for Il TO have IL. There must be
something more reasonable back OF hu-
r1cring a child than simply because other
children who are able can have certain
things. know man whose children
appreciate nothing that is done for them
because they have had everything mag
Unable. Their father said that when he
was a boy he saw other children with
things he wanted so much. that he re
solved that his children should not be
denied / asked him how those other
children had turned out and he had TO
admit that some of them had got so in
the habit OF getting everything in sight
that they were not altogether the sue
ceskfuI business men that be had be-
come
Don't misunderstood me 1 enjoy seeing
children made happy, but IL takes very
little 10 make a normal child happy ana
II is so easy to spoil children Some pa
rents act in such a manner that their
children imbibe the idea that what Is
done for them is no more than they de-
serve. And woe be 10 such parents
when their children reach an age where
they can help themselves. ] saw boy
toss his shoes I'm the corner because they
were a Christmas present had To
have shoes anyway" was his remark
Didn't / tell him a few things2 That
widowed mother sewed at night 10 get
those shoes and instead OF his appreciat-
ing them he was very cross 1 know
poor old mother who works like slav~
and last summer when vacation would
have meant so much TO her the son VINO
had saved 500 took chum TO Savannah
for a two weeks outing / believe In
being just before you are generous NJ
body enjoys being generous more than 1
do but when one owes money. or has a
family doing without necessary things I
think il a sin 20 spend the money foi
ones OWE pleasure. Tonight as the snow
fails and the wind hOwis there are people
hungry and cold because the money they
have earned has not been paid them