The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-26
IF YOU ARE NOT
 PROUD OF YOUR PARENTS

Judge not! Thou canst not teii Ao" soon the look of scorn
 Nav rest on thee; what freak or Iale may place upon thy brow
 cloud of shame to kill the cal" lhat restsuupon thee now. Scorn not! Thy lightest sneerlns "o'u an honest heart can reel
 As keenly as the deadly stab maoe py
 the pointed steel"
 The cruelest sorrow that can "rins parents hearts is the knoWleuse .la the child they have cuddled Ill the,i arms. toiled and sacrified 1or' nous 5 them in contempt, lis actually ashaIneu Of them. Because a mother anu Ia = ther may not have the advantage VI an education, having hewn their way from poverty to comfortable clrpum- stances. their son or daughter shouiu not think the less of them TOT It, put rather the more for their sterhns qual- ities which caused them to rise apove their surroundings
 Mother may be old fashioned. 3 nd her tongue possess an uncomIortapie way of tripping through the sentences mispronouncing this word or getting mixed on something else. But instead of getting flushed, feeling uncomfort- able. looking daggers or stepping on her foot under the table, the son or daughter should never call attention to it, but smile good naturedly and let it go at that.
 To be- continually rebuked by her children makes such a mother only the more confused and awkward in their presence. If strangers are about, she doesn't know what to. do or say lest she will make a mistake ana shame them all Sons and daughters should know that if others do not re- ,spect their parents they do not respect them, Yt
 Father. while resenting the chill drens attitude in such cases, is less troubled over it than their mother is. He will not take their corrections meekly, declaring: ''If your friends don't like me as I am, let them keep out of my way. got along with my actions and way of talk before you were born. Long as it satisfies me nobody else need care. People who comment on/ me are not paying my bills"
 When father gets started on thes, 1 arguments he holds the fort. They are obliged to retreat from him. H. can battle for both himself and hi tirrid old wife, he insists. The chil dfen who want to find fault with sucl parents will generally have an oppor
 unity. If father goes to the show an, lat tho end of the first act sees tn curtain drop. thinking 1t is all over j grabs his hat and is half, way up tn aisle before he is overtaken, reasone, with and brought back, his childrel shouldn't be mortified at the laughte and giggles of others he caused. The should consider 1t just merry 5ok land conduct him back to his seat il triumph. If he had spent more none on shows in <his younger days h Il wouldn't have been able to give hi
 family the comforts which they nov 1 enjoy
 No natter<ff parents may appea
 rough and uncouth, children who can
 not smooth 1t away should make th
 best of it and love them even the nor deyotedly because of their deficiencies Their hearts are all right and that i
 better than all the rest. They hay fpaid out heir money, given thei
 whole lite to give their children ever advantage and accomplishment. It i
 a poor return >Aot to feel proud O them. If they were to lose them, the
 would soon realize how they woul
 miss those heart jewels, those dia
 monds in the rough. No one shoul ever trust a son or daughter who i ashamed of his or her -fashione, | parerits