The Washington times., 1915-09-04

nant when the woman who gives ao-
vice told them that the almshouse was
for very poor people who had no nome
and no one to take care Of them.
the woman who gave advice would have
to live in the house with an old man who
had motions and then she find out.
And tho woman who gives advice told
the ordinary Be had. she said. just such
casts two or three tines a month. any
way. (,
Some Of the people wanted to get rid
Of a father and come wanted to get rio
Of a mother. and some were willing to
pay q little something and some thought
II was an outrage that they were ex-
pected to give up perfectly good money
When their husbands paid taxes to help
keep up the almshouse. And not one
Of them ever seemed to know that there
was such a thing In the world as kind
ness or gratitude or even plain duty:
II keep hearing about child culture:
said the woman who gives advice. Il
cultivate the love Of parents. 1t seems
to be absolutely going out OF fashion.
What fools such people as that are
what blind. deaf. STUPID. unreasonable
fools!
The University of Life.
Now, II one Of those two women who
wanted to get rid of her old father
lust because he was "notional." had
only just put her mind on the problem
| for one hour a day she could have
| solved it SO easily.
Why didn't she get hold OF one OF
| those boys who wanted to go fshing-.
a sensible. practical lad Of his age. and
| tell him confidentially that she waEte!
him to help her father have good
time showing him how to fish? She
could have thaa pooy Ely
young. light-hearted life that he craV-
ed-anI for next to nothing.
| Why didn't she have his favorite pie
| for him, in the name Of common sense
pie at home why didn't she go into the
nearest bakery and tell the good
natured woman in charge Of 1t to
make friends with the old man and In
vite him in as her guest to have the
fnest piece OF pie In the place. when
ever she had chance?
! What hurt would 1t have done?
| How many times do you suppose thai
father OF hers stopped on his way
home to buy a sack Of candy for i
little girl who had motions about
| chocolate creams?
What do you suppose he worked FOR
! 40 hard, ali those years? What made
the wrinkles in his face and the white
| in his hair? Maybe that woman had
a good many motions" when she was
| I wonder her father didn't put her
in an orphan asylum and get rid OF
| her.
Dear father. you're old-fa shion ed
| and peculiar. aren't you? Well. I'm
going to love you just as You loved
me when l was new fashioned and
queer. and not all the modern ideas
| In the world shall make me forget
what you have been and still are tu
| me.
p ear mother. that's what I'm going
| to love about you the very hest OF all
| the old-fa shioned ways. Why, you're
worth a dozen young women this very
| dey.
| The lessons you've learned, the
| hours OF vigil you have kept. disap-
1pointment-why,y you're a graduate Of
the Great Univ ersity of Life, and am
Just student In the freshman class.
| Come. mother. dear mother! How
| tired your hands look. Come. father.
dear father! How straight they are in
| the old picture there on the mantcl
the shoulders that are so bent and
crooked now! Come. let us sit in the
sunshine together. and let me learn
Of you,