The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-15

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upon
He had the child taken to the /.
photographers and a picture taken
just as ne was. He said: Don't re-
move a thing
Nov when he goes TO hotel and
unpacks his grip. the first thing he N
sees is the picture OF the little boy
dressed In his fathers clothes. The
last thing at night and the nrst
thing In the morning that picture ID
on the bureau and is an inspiration.
II says
go on. father, be careful, 60 too.
! am initiating you. l am going 70
be like you. Go to the saloon and Y
will 60 too
When you go into saloon you
may tell your little boy TO 20 home.
He goes. But he will follow you. II 4
you get up on Sunday and loaf or cit
/ In a club that hides under it's name
and hit the booze and gamble--and
want TO say that II church member
sits and plays cards he ought to be
expelled from the church. You have
yourself to blame IL the boy seeks
the same surroundings later.
III you tell him to 60 to Sunday
school. he'll go. After awhile when
he gets larger and you tell him 10
go, he'll tell you where to 60. The
thing TO do is TO lead the way and
say, Come on, my boy; I'm with n
you Y
! "A few years ago Judge Parker,
who was a candidate for President
against Roosevelt, and lives on the
banks OF the Hudson. took his little
grandson, George Hall, out for
bath
The judge was man of powerful
physique and an expert swimmer He
TOOK his grandson on his right
breast. He did that for some time.
lhen In attempting to change the
child the boy slipped away into the
water and was strangled. He threw
his arms around his grandfather and
both went under.
"A man leaped into a boat and
came TO their rescue. The third
time they had gone under and the
little boy was insensible and the
Judge so weakened that he scarcely
Kept himself afioat-the trouble was
that they had gone too far. They
had gone out beyond their depth.
That is the trouble with some
NINTH htf dIt tOO Out IN the
social stream. too far out in the
world. and the children are trying
10 follow and they become engulfed.
Il believe il the motherhood of
this country was no better than the
manhood, God would dump the whole
thing into hell and quick stop II.
Listen to me. You will never
save Detroit from intemperance II
you run a booze joint in your home
and keep beer and wine In your cell
lar, and on ice In your sideboard.
You will never save II from de-
gradation II you run booze Joint
in your home.
II have had mothers come to me
wringing their hands and say. MY
God. can't you save my boy He 10
a drunkard.' How old is her Be
tween IL and 20 or a. DO you keen
beer in your home or liquor! Yes
nine times out OF 10.
And then they come to me with
that plea. You will find liquor In
their homes, and that Is the reason
the boy is drunkard.
II believe the greatest work done
In this world is done by the true
mothers. God did great work with
matter. but God did greater work
with mothers. The mother OF the
Wesleys did more for this world than
some monarch whose image Is carv-
ed In marble and cast in bronze. or
painted on canvas.
Il tell you the training OF Martin
Luther, John Bunyan. Calvin, Lin
coin, is greater work than 10 be a
Caesar. Charlemagne. Alexander the
Great. To launch boy and girl on
life for God is a greater work than
TO launch a battleship.
Make Home Attractive.
Don't shut the door lest the sun
fade little patch OF the 65-cent in
grain carpet.
Don't pull the blinds and turn the
home into gloom.
Don't repress the merry laughter
that will shake the cobwebs out of
the corner. II you want TO ruin your
home let your children understand
that all mirth shall be left out. Let
them regard il as a place in which
10 eat and sleep and they will be
swept along
Young people must have fun.
They must have good time. Then
in Gods name, make your home as
attractive as you can for them so
, lhey won want 10 go away.
Let the FIRE burn, let the lights
/, blaze. ! hate to go into 20-foot
square room, lighted by a 16-candle
power light. II is the poorest econ
omy in the world. 10 have a dim.
dingy home, or a dim, dingy church.
"One-half hour in the family circle
+ will iron out the difficulties OF the
: day
The time will come too soon when
the family circle will be broken. the
time will come too soon when you
will long for the touch OF vanished
hand. The saddest time is when the
home is gone
Il tell YOU people in old Detroit
+ we are drifting away from the old
fashioned home Fathers are busy,
mothers give their children to the
care OF servants, whose only inter-
est is in the dollars they earn. and
E they spend five nights n week at
some opera, or some card party or
bridge whist club.
You can clothe your children In
silks and satins. bedeck them with
. French ribbons until they outrival
n French millinery store. and yet they
are orphans, though YOU still live.
: SHOW me your children. show me
the company they keep, show me
the nature OF tho hooks thew read