The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-22
The Children Of Such Parents-Bewarel

| Have parents right to bring children
! into the world and then in later life ex-
| pect children to support them? Some
of our foremost philosophers believe it
is an understood thing that the parent
owes to the child the best that they
can afford to give in point OF education,
home life, etc Does the child owe any
thing to the parent? Children came at
no request of their own, yet some par
ents seem to have children as a speculs
ton with the idea OF making them a
sort of guarantee to insure their own
future, bringing up their children 10
understand their first duty is to sup
port their parents. You can arrive at
yonr conclusion from the following de-
scription of case described by an en-
ployer of thousands of men in Pictorial
Review for August.
Yes, that's the trouble-~his mother
She has fashioned a milestone out of
four letters, duty, and hung them
round her sons neck He could throw
it off, but he thinks he would only as
sumo an uglier weight ingratitude.
And the girl agrees with him!
II was crazy to 90 to college," he
said Mother made it possible. She
scraped and saved to let me realize my
ambition. When | graduated she and
father were just getting on Easy street.
She had hired girl in one of these new
bult-as- you-want.it houses on which
contractors make fifty per cent. profit
through folks failing in their payments.
Father had good salary and ! was
home paving board.
Then father was caught in the Circle
willie smashup. When he came out of
the hospital there was nothing for him
but the job OF guard outside the big
chiefs private office. A one-armed man
can take cards and size up callers, but
he doesn't get much money.
81 suppose when women are under
great stress, they speak the truth even
If they try to deny it afterward. The
night after we told her just how father
would come out, mother let me see way
back into her mind | knew then what
my college course had cost her in self
denial and what she thought owed her
You see Ethel and | had just announced
our engagement and my salary wasn't
very large. II | supported wife, faith
er's new wages wouldn't meet the pay
ments on the house, the girl would have
to 90, and it would be back to hard
work for mother.
''Well, after talk with Ethel, |
promised mother I'd stick to her and
father until the payments were all made
and | could allow them enough out of
my earnings to exc out fathers small
wages. I've had several raises. The
on the house are coming on
fine, and Ethel and | figure that year
after next we can marry.
"No, We don't think it's best TO marry
and live at home. 1t keeps me pretty
short meeting the payments, repairs and
insurance and helping mother now and
then on a new dress or carpet. And
Ethel and ! want to begin right, in a
home of our own. Mother has worked |
hard so many years that she's getting |
a little nervous and queer. She wouldn't |
like having Ethel around. She's jealous
Of her anyhow. So we'll wait"
That man will be thirty-two when he /
marries. Modern writers tell us that !
the whole world is marrying later in
life. 1t is better for posterity, they say.
don't believe it. That red-blooded, |
clear-eyed man ought to be husband |
and father to-day.
10 him, the hunger of his mother for /
pretty things denied her that he might /
20 to college spells duty; but after all /
she brought him into the world and |
Tilted him to be what she will not per-
NIT him to become-a good husband and
IatheT. August Pictorial Review,