The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-13
BABIES OR DOGS?

IA 81 f1o Oh Doto!
A society in Kansas organized to find
homes for homeless children, says that
there are women so bereft of all wo-
manly feeling that they actually give
their dogs the care that thousands OF
babies are starving for.
Fashionable London boasts a stump.
tuous new toilet parlor for dogs. There
dog can be washed, brushed, per-
fumed, manicured, and have its teeth
brushed.
1t is disgrace to humanity and all
insult to honest dog nature.
Dogs can be the most faithful of
friends and can inspire great devotion
in the hearts of their masters, but they
are honest, doggy dogs, not pampered,
spoiled pups.
The woman who has so little mater
nal love left in her heart that she can
lavish such admiration on a dog is a
pitable object.
Every good woman is at heart a
mother even though she may never
bear children. Every little life is to
her wonderful, precious thing, a
thing to be cherished and loved.
There are-alas! that it should be
so-thousands, of hungry, neglected
babies in the land. These babies would
think themselves in the lap of luxury
if they had half the care that many a
pet dog gets. They have no soft bed,
no petting, no good food.
Think of baby's soft, tender body
lying on a squalid, wretched bed while
in some luxurious house poodle lies on
softest down and satin. 1t is monstr-
Gus and cruel.
All women are not blessed with
children, but the woman who spends
on dog the money that she might
give to the aid of some starving baby
is disgrace to womanhood.
Thank goodness that the women
who spend their time and money on
the pampering of dogs are rare, and
that the good mother is to be found in
every corner of the earth, from the
throne and the mansion down to the
ilunblest home of the peasant or toll
er.
People who have been bostered up
and liveried all their lives are seldom
good for anything in a crisis. When
misfortune comes they look around for
something to cling to or lean upon.
If the prop is not there, down they go.
Once down they are as helpless as cap
sized turtles, or endorsed men in ar
NOR, and they cannot find their feet
without assistance. They are like the
summer viues which never grow even
ligneous but stretch out thous-
and little hands to grasp the stronger
shrubs; and if they cannot reach them
they lie dishevelled in the grass, hoof.
trodden and beaten Of every storm. 1t
will be found that the first real move
ment upward will not take place until
in a spirit of resolute self-denial indol
ence so natural to almost every one i:
mastered. Necessity is usually the
spur that sets the sluggish energies ii
motion. Poverty is therefore oftenel
blessing to a young man than pros
perity; for, while the one tends to slim
ulate his powers, the other incline'
them to longer disuse.
Our sense of the value of the family
needs to be revivilied and reused. The
family the great institution of para
disc, the scene of purest love, the nur
sery of infancy, and the stimulus an(
shelter of all the virtues Each mar
and woman has duty to this end
homeless civilization is sure to be
satanic one; the vices will flourish anC
the virtues be nipped by the untimell
frost. Back of the good man mus
needs be the good household. Here
and there may be saint and an apost
lie won from the dens Of vice; but, IN
less the den be reformed, miracle
only can insure the safety of the new
convert. In the future, as In the past
the solid and reliable men and women
the leaders in business and society, viii
be found in the quiet and holy homes
Of the land.
II you want cheerfulness in you
home, you must have sunshine an,
genial hearts. Plan TO live in the sun
shine; il there is a pleasant room Il
your dwelling, i've there; II there is
dark room, shut it up; keep the child
rem out OF it; II you have troubles shu
them up there--neser take them int
the family circle-give home the sun
NEST thought and plans OF your Who'll
life and fill it with love, joy, peace
gladness--sunshine.