El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-06
Chickens Home To ROost
Good Deeds and Bad, Like Chickens
Always Come Home to ROOst;
Make Yours Good.
Ry Dorothy Dix -----
ny OOrOthJ III
ER. SHEPARD, the man to whom
VI HeIen Could is to be married.

ER. SHEPARD, the man to whom
MI Helen Gould is to be married,
~ says that when he started
forth to seek his fortune in life, his
father gave him this hOmely counsel :
Remember, son, that chickens al
ways come home to rOOSt"
And MI Shepard says that in many
a crisis in his life he has remem bered
the old adage, and that it mas been a
stay and a prop, and red lantern OF
warning, and a beacon of nope, all
combined, TO him
If you've ever lived on a farm you
know Just how much wisdom is packed
into this old prOverb. You remember
how, when night begins to fall, the
deserted chicken yard commences to
fill up, and from tree and bush, and
garden and distant field, no matter
how far they have rOamed during the
back home to rOOst.
Chickens come home to roost" 1t
IS good motto for US all 1t is a good
starting out IN life. 1t might not look
as elegant as do the Latin words en-
SraVed under an imitation coat OF
arms, but II would mean a lot more,
and be q better WatchWOrd in times OF
stress and trouble.
For il means that the one thing that
We can't set away from in life is the
consequences OF what we do. For q
time we may seem to escape from our
bad deeds, or appear to receive no re-
ward for our good ones, but in the
chickens come home to rOOst, or as the
Bible grandly expresses it: las a man
sOWs, so shall he reap"
While you stop to bestOW your aims
on an ola mendlcant, another man rolls
Dy IN MS limousine, a Silvery- haired
old man with a pink face who is
sWathed IN durs and at whose nod OF
recognition men raise their hats These
two men, the rich and respected man
and the poor old beggar, started out
IN life with an equal chance, but the
IN n old
automobile, worked hard and faithfully
and was honest and temperate and
thrifty, and he rose step by step from
office boy to being head of the bust
ness. The shiftless and law saw he's
been lucky, but there's no luck about
It His brood of chickens were hard
work.
You go to the hospital to see some
TREND who lies tossing upon his couch
OF pam But, you say, so many
others with that malady have recov-
cred An replies the doctor, but
the trouble with him is that he has
gone the pace that kills. He has burnt
up ms vitality IN dissipation He has
got nothing left with which to fight
disease" And so the boy dies His
chickens have come home to rOost
And they come home to rOOst for the
la! "a VINO mas lived cleanly; whose blood
IS pure, whose eyes are clear, and who
can walk unscathed through pestiIence
as II he bore a charmed life.
The woman who has been loving and
tender and kind: who has thought OF
other people before herself: who has
Deen the IlrSt to go with a helping
napd TO every one in distress about
her, who has shrOuded the dead. and
pinned on the wedding wells, and cud-
died the babies wherever there was
need OF Woman's sympathy in joy or
sorrow, never complains that her old
age IS lonely, or that people don't like
to have old women around them.
Her birthdays are smOthered in re-
membranes. Her old friends cleave
to her as David did to Jonathan. Young
people come to her with their conf
dences. Her chickens come home to
roOst and they are called love and ten
derness and honor.
Character isn't made in a day. It
isn't made up Of one act. Nor is sue
cess or failure determined by one sin
gle spectacular deed, for in the end,
we do the big thing or not de-
ponds on whether we've done the myr-
lads of little things right