The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-01-17
HOME CIRCLE COL UMR,
CLEANLINESS COSTS.

The following from one OF our ex-
changes contains more truth than po-
etry and is deserving of place in our
Home Circle Department.;
An lS.yearold girl in New York,
back from an adventuresome joy-ride
with lad OF Is in stolen auto, to a
woman reporter who visited her in the
lookup:
at was just picnic. We never
thought of it as anything else. | un-
derstand my father says he is gong
to have me sent away. l don't care,
| don't want TO go home. The old
man is so cranky he gets on my
nerves"
This girl was once pretty, smiling
promising baby, fathers pet and moth
er's joy; bsby not foredoomed to be
unloving and wayward. Something
between the ages Of 2 to l6 happened
to explain her change of character.
Without knowing in detail the fam
lily history, couldn't you pretty safely
hazard guess on the basis of that one
assertion: 1.-THE old mau is so cross
and cranky"
The proper influence in home is
love-patient, tender, long-sutfering
love. 1t is child's right. The child
who is denied it is defrauded. Just as
it takes the warm sunshine to bring
out the beauty of the flower, so the
soul of child, and especially the soul
of the woman. child, must have the
warmth of affection, continuous and
never-failing, to develop the graces
which make it clean and sweet.
We know not what cares, what sor-
rows, what aggravations, made this
"old man cross and cranky" 1t may
be we'd forgive him II we knew him.
In any event, he's TO be pitied, for
clearly his crossness and his crankiness,
robbing the daughter OF the home joys
which were her due, sent her to the
bad.
Amidst the worries, the stress, the
disappointment of life it is often hard
to preserve a sweetened temper at
home. But it is what the parent must
do, or at least try to the limit to do, if
the children are to have fair chance.
BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS.
Books are wonderful, not only in
their multiplicity, but in their persua-
sive power. The books and papers Of
today mould the minds of men. They
are not only ap intellectual but a NOR
al force. II all books and papers were
correct in principle and judgment,
there would be rapid decline in
crime. Crime is due to ignorance, and
ignorance is due to false preaching or
no teaching Much OF the vicious1ess,
anarchy and restlessness of modern
times is due to the pernicioUs influence
of newspapers and books written by
men who are either purposely delud-
ing the people or lacking in under
standing. If we would purify our PEG
pie we must put our newspapers into
the hands of men who will not sacrifice
truth and morality to political and
financial ends. We must have liter
airy censorship, that books may be ex
amined and those of evil influence con-
demned before they reach the people.
We all have much to learn and it is
economy of time to read only the old
and we'll tried books. Books and pap.
ers teach us to know life-the present
and the past. They stimulate and train
the mind. They inspire us by example
and precept. They teach US morality.
They help us to distinguish between
the good and the false. They quicken
the imagination. They give us worthy
and beautiful things to think and talk
about. They are the best and most &C
cessible means of education,