The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-31

Nice confidential letter. isn't It?
And the worst OF it Is that IT ts mis-
erably, unde niably true. every single
word Of it, and then SOME more.
know q dozen just such cases.
They differ in particulars--one man
has pretty home. one draws n sal
airy. one gets wages, one man has
girls to support. one has boys, and
one has only his wife, who despisas
him for being what she loves to call
drudge 1t is sad, isn't IL?
And yet. somehow, l always won
der how much better the woman wno
prides herself on her ambition Is
than the drudge who irritates her so,
1t is very easy 10 be ambitious for
some one else. | wonder how much
Roadway that same woman would
make with the work the '.drHge'
does go faithfully and well.
What does your husband have to
make him ambitious" dear woman?
How do yoA help him, pray tell? BY
nagging him and making fun of him?
That's good way. isn't it? Why don't
you try another one for a change
I've seen a very commonplace man
made over into a comparative sue
cess. Just by the faith his wife had in
him.
Have you tried believing In Che
drudge to see what that would do2
You can't nag a man at home and ox-
pect him to bear himself like a man
away from home. 1t takes courage
and spirit and Will power TO fight
way up in the world, and If YOU take
all these things out of man before
he leaves the house. what weapons
has he 10 make the light?
Ambitious, How do you know
whether he's ambitious not2
What do you call ambition, any
way The wish to get rich"
Fine noble work that is, isn't it,
Selling the body and the soul and the
heart and the mind to leave fine
monument@and rich widow: It's all
well enough to live to get rich, but why
make yourself believe that you nave
high ideals" just because you want
an automobile and want the drudge to
get it, some way. any way only get
it?
Don't be too sure that you are so
much cleverer and so much finer i'll
every way than the drudge He may
have his own ideas on the subject even
though he does not think it necessary
TO nag you about them,
What shall YOU do? Why. what in
the name of common sense is there
for you to do but to stick to your bar
gain and make the best of it It's
good morals. good sense, and good re
ligton, nothing else viii do at all.
Your children What % you ex-
! pect to make of your children il you
/ run, away from their father because
I he doesn't get on?''
| ia rather give my children TIER
start in life In a happy home, 81 home
! where there's love and trust. and faith.
and courage. and patience. and nobl-
/ ity of heart, than TO send them to the
| finest school on earth and pay for that
/ schooling in the bitter coin OF es
I arrangement from all that really counts,
/ You can get Schooling" In the
books---lots of it---and books come
/ cheap in this day. You cant learn
patience, and love. and truth, and for
| bearanee in any book in the world but
/ the good old book OF life. and home is
! the very best place to study that.
! Here's today-fresh. hopeful. wide
| awake today, splendid today. glorious
| today-~full Of promise. full OF possibil-
tiles; let's make those promises come
true. every one OF them.
Forget all this higher ideal" twad-
die stop thinking of the automobile
/ we can't get and go to work--here-
| ilt the place where we belong. in our
own home with our own children and
the man who loves them.
! Get the poor drudge the best break.
fast you can buy with the money you
have to spend; serve it as prettily as
possible, with a smile, TOO: that counts
! oh. how much does it count
Put your heart In the coffee. Put
/ your brain into those biscuits, send
! your little girls off to school with the
common" children with an "uncom-
mon song In their happy hearts
! It takes so little to do that-~a new
| joke, a little story, word OF extra
/ praise. When they come home be
waiting for them. You, Yourseif-~not
/ the woman with tho corners OF her
! mouth drawn down. the one they've
seen at the door so often; rot the
woman who is mad because she hasn't
any automobile. not the woman who
is sick with envy because she can't
go to Europe. but you. the mother
they love aud understand. the mother
they idoli2e.
! AT night surprise the drudge with
| good dinner, a really good dinner.
! Give him smile with It, and the
same look You had when you thought
/ Ne was the one Great man OF the
| earth why, even the Office boy will
notice a different set to the shoulders
Of the drudge when he gets to work
tomorrow. the set of the shoulders OF