The Detroit times., 1916-09-15

solemn picture that I have ever gassd
upon
He had the child taken to ne
photographers and a picture taken
just as he was. He said: Don't 70
move a thing
Nov when he goes 10 a hotel and
unpacks his grip. the first thing he
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 II
on the bureau and Is an inspiration.
IL says
go on. father. be careful. 90 too.
l am initiating you. am going to
be like you. Go TO the saloon and
will go too
When you go into n saloon you
may tell your little boy TO 20 home.
He goes. But he will follow you. II
you get up on Sunday and loaf or cit
in club that hides under its name
and hit the booze and gamble-and
want To say that II a 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 90. After awhile. when
he gets larger and you tell him to
go. he'll tell you where 10 20. The
thing 10 do is TO lead the way and
say. Come on, my boy; I'm with
you
"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 a
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.
Ihen 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 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 ahoat--the trouble was
that they had gone too far. They
had gone out beyond their depth. i
THAT is the trouble with some
women. They are too far out in the
: social stream, too far out In the
world. and the children are trying
TO 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 he'll and quick stop 1t.
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 eel
lar, and on ice In your sideboard.
You will never save II from de-
: graduation II you run a booze Joint
In your home.
II have had mothers come to me
wringing their hands and say. NY
; God, can't you save my boy. He n
drunkard' How old Is hep Be
tween II and 20 or o. DO you keep
beer in your home or liquorT 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 a drunkard.
Il 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 cary
ed In marble and cast In bronze, or
painted on canvas.
Il tell you the training OF Martin
Luther. John Bunyan, Calvin. Lin
coin, Ia greater work than to 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 e5-cent In
grain carpet.
Don't pull the blinds and turn the
. home into gloom.
4 Don't repress the merry laughter
that will shake the cobwebs out of
z the corner. IL you want to ruin your
!, home let your children understand
d that all mirth shall be left out. Let
!. them regard IL as a place In which
10 eat and sleep and they wifi be
swept along.
Young people must have fun.
They must have a good time. Then
!, in Gods name, make your home a.
u attractive as you can for them so
. they won't want TO go away.
Let the FIRE burn, let the ligfts
). blaze. hate 20 go into a 20-foot
l square room, lighted by a 16-candle
. power light II Is the poorest econ
8 omy in the world. to have a dim.
dingy home, or a dim. dingy church.
y "One-half hour In the family circle
D will iron out the difficulties Of the
8 day.
2 The time win come too soon when
Z the family circle will be broken, the
+, time will come too soon when you
will long for the touch OF a vanished
hand. The saddest time Is when the
home Is gone.
r Il tell you people in old Detroit
r we are drifting away from the old.
I fashioned homo. Fathers are busy,
r mothers give their children to the
+ care OF servants. whose only inter
est Is In the dollars they earn, and
: they spend Ave nights a week at
. some opera. or some card party or
5 bridge whist club.
/ You can clothe your children In
l. silks and satins, bedeck them with
y French ribbons until they outrival
a French millinery store. and yet they
are orphans, though you still live.
e SHOW me your children, show me
l. the company they keep, show me