Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
FATHER IS WORKED
OUT Of HIS HOME
:
BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB

man who was worked out of his
home. He was what they call the
good provider," who provides every
Thing for everybody in the home but
s .anself.
HE was one of those handy men
who can do anything around a
house and so it was always left for
him to do.
When he came home from work
no~matter how tired he was, there
were shelves to be put up in the
Kitchen, or knives to sharpen, and
il, there were not such mannlsh
things to. do he was just good ma
tured enough to wash the dishes, and
I chave even heard of him cleaning
pots and pans-the man who was
worked out of his home.
The day always comes when h.
grows sick to death Of being such q
good father and being pointed to as
{ a. model man.
With him it has been sail work
and no play" until he can stand the
gaff no longer.
Oh, yes, there is such a thing as
imposing on the old man. And many
Stimes he knows all the time he is
s6eing made the goat, but he takes
str as a part of his fatherly duties
until a last straw is waited on him
and breaks the back of his burden.
As one young woman told me,
daughter of such a man: Father
lust walked out one day and didn't
come back and we couldn't imagine
what was the matter, until we got a
letter from him in which he told us
he was just plain tired OF being
father and nothing else.
Sees His Point
sand T must say that while my
neither and the other members or
.shes family didn't agree with him,
It could see his side of it all righl,
-ii1d I believe they are beginning to
.ealize it, too, for they all have got
ZEN to work. Where before when
They were out of a job they knew
that father would always take care
If things, now that he is gone they
lee that they have just got to do
something and they have managed
o get something to do.
7na..He certainly has Weakened them
up Ito a realization that there IS
something coming to him besides
everlasting work, until believe that
ioon he will come home and find a
different family.
SfffIt was so funny his going away,
He, rarely complained and then all of
Il sudden he left us. l believe much
J II it was mothers fault, because for
10 many years she had depended on
'ather and then she was on our side
90 much and couldn't see that his
DAD was getting heavier instead of
lighter as the years went by"
vhyfmen leave home. Of course
here is the other side of it. There
Ire many women-certainly more
han men-who are worked almost
o death in the home, and who have
slot the ghost of chance to leave 1t
letause of the ties that bind them
8, that home. Their case. of course,
$ worse, because mother love ami
s<ie Womanish traits that are born
With them make them hold fast to
+ heir own, no matter what trials and
ribulations they are called upon to
lear.
They go to their graves worn out
vith+work and worry, and there has
peen little or no chance of escape
or them. However, a new day is
lsswning in their behalf as well.
tefd. of fruitfulness, even a rooster
! s!eelsed woman will turn. They get
YORK. outside the home and have
some degree of independence. But
] hat-is another story. This article
(eals with him who is imposed upon.
Forgotten Father
I know =. man who has worked
md shaved as a carpenter. He has
& ducated his several children and
art two of them to college, always
fsEne hope that some day those chill
lren would be in position to help
l.ur But, alas, in his old age, his
wife being dead, he is plain home
eSS.
The children have all been married
Ind. have Their own families and
heir own interests and have forgot
err father, who has worked all the
ears to make their present situa-
ion possible.
+ He has been the rock Of strength
or 80 long that they fail to COM
Jrehend that he can be lonely and
Unhappy and homeless. He is paying
sieard and living with strangers.
Here is a true situation of having
3 ust worked himself out of his home.
rhe birds have all flown and the
apst has been deserted because he
worked so well.
Then there is the case Of the man
,Hrhome-loVing individual, who al
ways longed to buy a place"of his
.yYn-and spend his old age in it. He
slm so well, became so prosperous,
fought his home, and then the wife
seemed to think that it was pity
sor two people to have a home after
t4n oh tod 1,0 I,I
DOT want to be burdened with the
Nervant question or the work and
Urged him to live in a hotel. And
hats where they are today.
i know of no man who is so lone
y and unhappy as this one. He is
serying to conform to his wifes
Wishes and finds himself homeless.
SIe has worked himself out of it.
lad he not been able to go to a
a6tel, he probably would have had
home. This sounds paradoxical,
put there it is.
sThen there are hundreds of young
business men who are constantly
called upon to take their wives out
10 necessarily that they do not have
aIre home for which they work.
Nany man has said: while it is
sriue there is no place like home, I
AeVer get chance to find out"
If only women would realize that
efre big thing in life, the thing that
Colds husbands and inspires faithful
fathers, is the home wherein some
consideration is given to their labors
IN making that home, and that too
s1filch is not heaped upon them.
The happy medium is to insure a
little pleasure along with the prob.
ems.
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