The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-24

II anyone suggests going anywhere 10
you, do YOU raise so many objections
that you take all the pleasure out Of
Il before you even startP
II you are a discouragtr stop being
one You are killing the joy ~ life
for those about you. You are Staying
the divine thing in them that makes
them able 60 achieve, and you are
worse than the murderer who merely
takes a mans life
The measure OF what we can do Ia
just what we think we can do, Our
faith In ourselves sets our limit We
can not 90 one, inch beyond that, and
50 when YOU destroy our self-cOnf-
denee. and make us distrustful OF our
ability, you wish failure upon US.
We must SOW in hope, II We reap
success. II Is only by keeping the goal
constantly before our eyes. and bellev-
ing with all our hearts that we have
the strength to reach il, that gives us
the courage to struggle and fight on.
Dim that hope. weaken that faith and
we give up and sit down. and fold
our hands and say, what's the use,
The world Is full OF failures who
would have been successes II they had
rot had the misfortune OF having a dis
courager In the family. Sometimes the
wet blanket Is wife who dribbles Ice
water down her husbands back until
ne gets such cold feet he Is afraid TO
he has gotten, no matter how clearly
he sees fortune reckoning him, down a
new road.
The man has ability He has vision.
lie Is optimistic, and wants TO build for
the future, He comes home fun OF
some plan for enlarging his business.
or striking out in new direction, or
keen To take some offer he has had 20
go Go another country or city. He
knows he can succeed because he feels
within himself the power TO do the
thing he Is planning. 70 do. -
But wife fishes out the cold douche,
and applies II so effectually that. she
brings his temperature down from fever
heat 60 subnormal before he Is half
through explaining his plan. She warns
him against taking risks, and TO lot
well enough alone she cites all the
cases she has ever known OF people
who lost their all through some new
venture. She prophesies every form OF
dark disaster, and warns him that he
ia not so young as he used to be and
that his health might fail. and that
they might come to want In their old
age, and so dismal, and disheartenlng
In the vision that she paints that the
man finds his own enthusiasm petering
out, and his belief In himself dying,
and he gives the project up.
A great many wives take credit 70
themselves for being brakes upon their
husbands enthusiasms. and say that
they are always holding John or Henry
hack from going into some new thing,
Little do they know how often they
keen their husbands from great achieve
niefits. and cut themselves out OF the
fortune and the fame they might have
had.
planR and talk over things with her un-
tn / found out that she wet hlanketed
every scheme presented TO her said
salccessful man. Now | never tel
her anything about what I'm going e
do until after the thing Is accomplished
because | haven't got the time, OF
strength to fight her objections, MOI
can / afford 10 have the fine flower
OF my belief In my ability 70 put the
thing through, hlighted. Without that
i can not succeed ! need somebody "a
tell me that can do Il, not somebody
10 troak failure in my ears, and my
wife is the greatest little discourasei
that ever came down the pike -
How often the genius OF children ls
nipped in the bud by their parenn
throwing wet blanket over all thei
aspirations we never can know hu
there are millions and millions o. met
and women who might nave asnitVce
something worth while u their fathers
and mothers had not killed their faltf
in themselves IN their early youth
There are many parents who thlni
that Ii makes for righteousness u
make a child humble and selt-dtstrust
gul, Therefore they are eternally cal
inp Bobby's and sally's attention Z
their faults, and dlsparaging their vr
tues, and making small of everything
that they do.
Johnny says he wants TO be a law
yer when he grows un and Johnny
ambition becomes the chief family lest
They call him Judge, they fldlcuI
the idea Of a poor boy with no money
ar influence or any particular adVan
tares Of education ever becoming any
thing hut day laborer, They IauEi
az his attempts at oratory and his u.s.
Of hig words. and hts iondness 70
study and at last Johnny y wet
llanketed out Of his ambition and doe
become the day lahorcr that MS tam
nv forced him into becoming, Yet many
man with a family to boost up M
courage and hold up his hands ma
risen from humber beginnings thal
Johnnys TO seat In the suprem
court ..
BAD as II is to discourage q grow
person. ID Is an unforgivRble crime v
discourage child for you know no
what future you may he bilghtihs
what success you may be shatterine
Never kill the hope and ENTHUSIASM
IN childs soul You may be Tx
Nance Oldfield who, when she had dis
iliusioned the young boy who wante
N marry her. said; God forgive m,
have put out the light on an altar.
fropyright 1890, by the Wheeler syn
dipatG lnC.l