The Washington herald., 1918-01-07

PRAY for them that despitefuIly use
you and persecute YOU"
It's a hard Job. I'm trying my
level best.
Virtues Acid Test.
Your virtues are best discerucd
when subjected 10 the severest trial.
The hammer displays the excellence
Of the diamond and the furnace ascer-
tains the purity OF the gold. Meek
ness is a dormant quality until in
juries call 1t out. \ let your char
acter be blasted; let your inter-
ests be ruined; then it will appear
how far these qualities govern and
control you. Remember Christianity
is cross as well as a crown; il is
martyrdom as well as coronation: il
3s exile as well as home: il is tears
and partinEs as well as reunions.
Why call ye me Lord, Lord and
do not the things ] say'-my friends.
in your home and in your family life2
What motive animated your mar
riagec Was il the basis Of mutual
attraction? Why did you marry that
girl? Because she was a good locker
and could get herself up attractively2
Why did you marry that young fel-
low? Because you thought that when
the old man kicks OF and the will is
probated that he'd get something that
he hasn't the ability 10 earn? Why
did you marry him?
Now. whenever a girl gets too
proud 10 marry a young fellow with
leo acres OF land and leo red hogs and
a lot OF cows, because he can't tell a
tango from a load OF hsy-say, you
put it down, will YOU. as a laSd-pipe
cinch that she'll either die an oId
maid or shell marry some fellow on
ten per with one pair OF Hole-proofs.
BnIy's "GOOd Dope
Girls, il I were you I'd rather marry
a man who is man enough TO wear a
pair Of 49-cent overalls than 10 hook
up to some Cuthbert who can play the
mandolin or the ukelele and smoke
Turkish cigarettes and live on the old
mans pension. That's good dope.
II had the power TO enact my con-
victions into law would require and
compel that the prospective husband
be able to show something more than
the mere price Of a marriage license.
He'd have to show an ability and n
disposition 10 maintain a home; he'd
have to show himself sound in mind.
sound in body and sound in morals
"tAAAN ~ ANAA eoN HNANA aAAAlAE -
unborn have the inherent right 10 be
well born.
There are multitudes OF people not
so much born into the world as they
are damned into the world. and their
fate is sealed generation before
their mothers kiss them. and IL their
old Grand-daddy or grest-grand-dsddy
had been hanged for stealing horses
he wouldn't be in Sing Sing.
The three plaques OF modern times
are tuberculosis. alcoholism and VEN
ereal disease. The first is subject 10
some sanitation - tuberculosis. The
second, the saloon, alcoholism, is sup
posed TO be restricted by the law.
while the third has no control other
than the whims and ianCies, the die
tations and the passions and the lusts
OF lustful men and OF women.
Like produces like-in horses, hogs,
cats, dogs. canary birds and human
beings. These are the days when tho
farmers OF this country are spending
millions OF dollars TO develop the high
est, purest strain OF blood in animals
all over our land. They have learned,
my friend, that blood tells. Blood
tells
Carpets and Riddles.
Somebody has said the hand that
rocks the cradle moves the world.
The child gets his notion OF God or
the devil largely from his mother. and
the devil finds no fault with the mother
who sends her children TO play in the
streets for fear they will wear out the
carpet IL they stay in the house, and
by trying 10 shine In society, and by
spinning society yarns many a mother
helps to make the rope that hangs her
own boy.
They say that Phidias, erecting a
statue OF Minerva, 60 inwrought his
image in her shield that Il was for
ever impossible TO remove the image
without effacing the statue.-so the
mother ineffaceably imprints her
characteristics upon her child.
They say OF Sir Walter Scott that
his mother was passionately fond of
literature, and In Sir Walter Scott
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