The citizen., 1914-05-01
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FATHER AND SON.

II we can begin the present year with
! the resolve that our sons shall be more
our companions and our fathers more our
comrades it will add both to the sweet
ness of our private life and to the value
of our citizenship"
Mayor Baker is the first of 500 Mayors
of our American cities and towns to
join officially in the Father and Son, f"
movement started in Cleveland. and
which has now gone east as far as Ban
gor, Name and west as far as Denvor
The average father and son are pretty
good comrades up to the time that the
boy becomes of High School age. They
play together and work together. One
sees them taking long walks on Sunday
and going fishing on holidays. The boy
can have a better time with his dad"
than with any of his playmates, and as
for dad he would rather lose finger
than diSappolnt the kid" So they con-
tinue Crones and pals up to the very
time that the boy needs his father the
most, and the father needs the bov, and
| then they separate. In the next five
years the Young Mems Christian Associ-
| alton secretary or the athletic coach can
| tell the father more about his son than
he knows himself.
When the boy goes away to school
and forms new associations the distance
between the two increases. A surprising
number OF the letters from the fathers to
the sons in college takes the form of
| hastily scrubbed checks. AT the end of
| the sons school days father and son feel
an underlined uneasness in each others
presence. They have nothing in com
| mon. The father fears that the son may
think him old-fashioned, and the son
| fences, expecting every moment some
| solemnly delivered good advice"
| 1t is unfortunate that it is so, but the
fact may as well be faced. There are
exceptions and these constitute pecul-
| iarly happy contrast.
What is finer, indeed. than the sight
of youth admitted into the circle OF his
| fathers friends? The boy that is a com
pauion OF dad" all the way may not
know more than the boy that had drifted
from his father, but he has less to un-
learn.
Look on the bright side Of things. 1t
it the side. The hour may be cherries
and somber with clouds, but it will be no
better to wear a gloomy and sad coun-
tenance 1t is the sunshine and not the
clouds that makes the flowers The sky
is blue twice where it is black once.
You have troubles-so nave others
None are free from them. That would
be dull sea and the sailors would never
get skill were there nothing to disturb its
surface. There is more virtue in a sun
beam than in whole hemisphere of
cloud and gloom.
Let us make 1t our duty and pleasure
from this time forth to spread such an in
fluence around us that whoever we may
come in contact with will be made better
and happier by having known us, SO that
our golden rule will be. "Never drop
a speech that could carry sorrow to anv
heart, wherever our words might reach.
1t has been beautifully said that woman
is the creation" God grant that each of
us shall add a precious jewel to this
glorious crown that shall shine through
endless ages.
Time has demonstrated that there is
no 10Y and no comfort. no sweetness, no
pleasure in the world like that of a good
sickness, the husbands eve. his hand,
his bosom friend, his partner at all times,
his other self, not to be separated by any
calamity, but ready to share all sorrow
and discomfort. to live and die with him;
nay more, to die for him.
Parents should never consider their OBJ
| legations to their children discharged
when they have fed and clothed and
otherwise cared for their little bodies.
| They should also provide food for their
minds, and ever keep the little lives
clothed in the beautiful white robes of
purity and sheltered by the strong, true
love of the parents heart.
| Teach your children to pursue some
honorable employment and thousand
temptations depart; give them pure and
wholesome recreations and pernicious
ones lose their flavor; infuse into their
hearts love of home, of family and
friends, and they will no longer love the
illusions which separate them from them.
We can gam more glorious victory
over another when an injury is begun on
their part, that kindness should begin on
our part.
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| 1t is said that the two best things that
the Creator allowed TO escape from
heaven to gladden. and beautify the earth
were women and flowers.
Mirth may prove a better digestive
than doctors pill.
Nearly 7 per cent of all the eggs tina
are packed in crates arrive at their desti
nation in pad order, according to the
| eo,ras ;,ct ohtained hv the food re