Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-06


almost always eccentric and warped
| in character. So are children who
are educated at home by tutors and
! governesses. The poorest school
| gives a child a working knowledge of
| it's fellow-creature that no learned
| psychologist can teach it, and it is
better for children to associate with
even undesirable children than it is
for them to grow up alone.
Nor can any other greater misfor-
| tune befall child than to be encour-
aged in morbidness. The child who
is always getting his feelings hurt
| and who sulks on the outskirts of
| the crowd, and the one who takes
| her doll rags and goes home when
ever she can not make the other
| children play her game, should be
| spanked and sent back to apologize
| to their playmates instead Of having
mother pity them for being such SEN
sitive little darlings.
| 1t may seem to their mothers that
| it makes little difference whether
their children play happily and gen
| tally with other children, or whether
| they bicker and quarrel with all
with whom they come in contact.
But it does. 1t is a thing of stupen-
dous Importance because the child's
| character and habits are being form
| ed, and its whole success and happi-
ness in Life depends on its ability to
get along with other people.
| Whether you look at them from
| the material or the spiritual point
| of view, friends are the biggest as
set that we have. We can cash them
| in over the counter in hard dollars,
just as we can find in their affection
| a happiness that no money can buy.
A man with friends is rich, though
| he has nothing else. The man with
| out friends is a pauper, though he
| have the wealth of Croesus.
| Our friends make the ladder by
which we climb to success, because
| people do things for us because they
| like us that they would not do for
us because it was our just dessert
! to have our lives saved.
| A man may have an enormous tall
| ent. He may have prepared him
| self by years of study for the work
he is undertaking, but if he has an
unpleasant personality If he has a
disa greeable manner that aienates
us instead Of attracting us to him.
we let him severely alone.
We take our trade to the shops
where the atmosphere is friendly.
We send for the friendly doctor when
we are sick. We go to the friendly
! lawyer when we have dealings with
! the courts. We say the good word
| that gets the coveted position for our
friends. Never for people we dis
| like. They must shift for them
| selves.
T, h,,.;,,aSs wants non,11aritv is
worth just so much money in his
pay envelope, and the man who has
| the gift of making friends-the
faculty that enables him to make
and hold customers, or to handle
bodies of men and women, can name
his own salary.
The reverse of this is equally true.
! How often you hear employers say
that such and such man is so
competent and faithful and honest
and they would like to put him at
the head of a department, but they
cannot do so because he cannot get
along with people!
How often a, theatrical manager
| will say that such a woman is a
great actress, and particularly fits
some part in the big play he is put
| ting on, but he cannot have her be-
cause she cannot get along with
| people!
How many scientific doctors, how
many learned lawyers, how many
eloquent preachers we know, who
starve in obscurity instead of being
at the head of their professions, just
| because they cannot get along with
people!
Surely the mother who desires to