The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-22
EVENING CHIT
Largo Versus Small Family.

III BIZ RUTH CA4EROM.
Large Versus Small Family.
Yesterday printed In this column the
first installment OF one Of the finest hui
man documents have ever read
It il q letter describing the home life Of
the kind of family America needs more
than 1t needs anything else. Its author II
the mother Of eight children. Not finding
4 enough to do to take care Of this fam
adopted = ninth she is still 50 young
looking that she Is often taken for one Of
her children. She tells simply but
II graduated from the g. F. @. H. g.
With the class Of 80 and married = few
husband. Who IS stili my lover, have
pss f aiSSns W. have sna SIX s. anna
dsughters belong to an Oratorio society:
well. One daughter 10 I. fine pianist. and
all the rest sing. We have a very. little
ana iy but so 1--we any
sweethearts. and when they ali cali at the
! wish ? You We could 1 know sty US. w have
raissd , our family on love and a,s have We
two are alike have tried to make our
youngsters ambitious for themselves. We
told them when they were small that they
that we would give them grammar
school education, and what they got after
wards they must work a Tor; one d ad nsf
herself througip q shorthand school and is
now q public etenographer. The third is a
cashier this vacation and still going to
high school intending to be a teacher. We
had ten abs w Ninth is dear
She hes was one Of those little nameiess Waits
a Home: in San Mateo. where twenty
SIX little ones were being treated cruelty.
Our Mothers club went to sew for them.
love with her. told the family about her
and they all wanted her. so we sent for
ner ana re h nave Sa Ser YEAR and i
seems a. II she has always been ours. The
name they gave her was Ethel Barry,
our own for possible Identification some
day msst .s sseR abo5t fsmy
can't. Please stand up for the big family,
for there is no happiness SO complete, Il
think Of the happiness stin to come. when
all the little. grandchildren come along.
Unfair Suspicious.
how many fine people there are in this
world-if you scratch 'em deep enough. +"
David GFayson.
in which a great many of us indulge with
no apparent consciousness Of our vanity.
and with surprising lack of reticence. /
pectins others OF deeds and motives Of
| which we think we ourselves would be
You know the old Quaker saying .'All
and sometimes I think thee Is little
that. And vet. have you never BY your
Of your friend, showed that you had just
rest OF the world. il not Of its intellect?
Would you be capable of slanderins. your
very well. then. do you not see that you
are flattering yourself on being far better
than he when you are SO ready to believe
that he has been saying slanderous Things
would you be capable Of stealing. even
haa the we
ing ing" yourself % elf on being far better than the
o as tSst e
that gold pin which you cannot find? 10
be sure. she is q chambermaid and you
you that dishonesty II not q matter OF
class or circumstances. don't doubt that
there is Just as large = percentage s OF dis
poor chambermaids. No. of course the
wife's dishonesty does not take the form
temptation there for her. but It certainly
does just as much harm when It takes the
form Of stealing her neighh1r ,ns rep S,i..
band. Therefore. II you are woman OF
means and know that you would not dc
| things like this, you have no right to sus-
pect the chambermaid Of the dishonestiea
Truly it is not unlikely that other felkk.
| mine once said. st have seldom been sus.
picious Of my neighbor without having re.
| 4retted my suspicious" don't doub,
| that this Is the experience OF anyone who
| has enough fineness to be troubled BY
such regrets. All of us at one time or an
and II we were worth anything at all
| have been first ashamed and humble and
4 it, show many fine people there are In thu
world-if you scratch 'em deep enough.