The Washington herald., 1918-01-07

and some clothes that are always
in need of pressing, but i don't
know that it makes any particular
difference as my chief customer
doesn't seem to care much for looks
Mentally i carry two lines of
goods-one for home consumption
and the other for business and So
ciety. The latter line is extra fancy
and attractive-wit that bubbles
like champagne; spicy stories; sug-
airy compliments that melt like bon
bons in the mouth; clever epigrams
that people roll on their tongues; a
/ favor OF good humor and geniality
permeating It all, but 1 never serve
these tidbits at my family table.
For home use every day ] carry
a supply of grouches. grumness and
dumbness that you have to wish on
people to get them to take. I've
seen my wife looking at my COM
pany goods and yearning for a taste
of them. but she's never got a bite
Of them since my courting days, and
my children don't know that even
carry them.
'On the other hand, I've got an
oversupply OF money and l lavish
automobiles and clothes and Jewels
and all sorts of bought luxurIes on
my family.
But in striking a balance with
domestic life 1 do not seem to be
making a success of il. My wife
seems disspirited and lonely. am
! not acquainted with my children
and they appear TO regard me
merely as check book. My
daughters are growing up to be
snobs and fashion plates, my sons
| to be wild and dissipat6d
Therefore. I perceive that un-
less my family life goes into bank
ruptcy ] must reorganize the busi-
| ness. l must curtail the money
making and expand and develop
the love and personal association
end"
Suppose parents had the courage
to really take stock of their chill
dren and say to each other:
Here's Susan. She's as good as
gold; she's strong, healthy and
energetic: she's got excellent good,
hard, horse sense, but she has car
roty hair and a complexion like a
saleratus biscuit, and a dumpy fig
ure. and she hasn't one sparkle of
lishtness or brightness in her.
There's not one chance in a million
of Susan marrying any man worth
marrying. Nor would she even
make a success at writing, or act
ing. or painting, or music, but she's
Just the type that makes a success
ful business woman. Therefore. we
VIII give her a good commercial
education and get her started in
some store or Office where she will
nave a chance to rise to the top.
to NIL her life with useful and inter
estlng work and be able to support
herseff in -as much luxury as her
husband would be likely to-"
\ OR supposed they said: Here's
Juhet. she's as pretty as a picture.
she Is mercurial creature, full OF
tears and laughter. and mad for joy
| and excitement. She's the kind OF
girl that men will be crazy about.
she will always be tempted from
within and without, and it's up to us
to watch and guard her in every pos
sible way, to try to develop in her a
sense of responsibility and to teach
her self-control."
oh. If parents would only take stock
Of their children and see that this
ones mind is feeble and needs special
training, or that ones body is frail
and needs special care, and that an
other ones morals are weak and need
bracing up, instead OF fatuously be-
lieving that each one is perfect, how
many failures in life could be avoid
ed!
Copyright. 1913, by the Wheeler Syndicate. Incl