The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-25
Cruelty of
Life Taught
Little Girl
BY MARTHA LEE

A little girl, scarcely able to write,
has sent in a letter that is more
eloquent than any sermon on the
tragedies mothers and fathers can
bring to their children by breaking
up their homes.
The child. not more than 8 or 9.
has been made to realize that life
is hard and merciless before she
scarcely is able to comprehend
what living means.
She has learned that human
beings can be cruel to each other,
even when they love each other.
and there is every reason why they
should be humane.
And most of all, she and her little
brothers and sisters have been
shaken rudely into the realization
of what an empty dreary place a
home can be without mother, after
the home has known her tender
love.
Realization Is Hard
When a child'S mother dies, some
how, he realizes that it is impossible
to bring her back, that he must re-
sign himself to live without that
mother. But when she deliberately
quits the home, it is so hard for the
child mind to adjust itself to be-
lieving she never will be back.
Other children have mothers who
laugh sometimes and cry more often,
but they always are there when the
children return from school or come
in from playing. If other mothers
can cry and still stay, they can not
understand why their. mother
could not do the same.
Dear Martha Lee-I want to ask you
for some advice, on how daddy and / can
get mother to come back to MS. Daddy
has been mean to mother. but he sees
where he has made mistake and we are
very lonesome without her at home.
Prays Every Night
Daddy promises me that he never will
mistreat her in any way. shape or form
If she will come back. l love my mother
and I know my daddy does because he
treats us kids so good. I hear him pray
ing every night for her to come back.
She went away about month ago and
no one seems to know where she is.
lola SIMS
In desperation, because of harsh
treatment from a husband she loved,
this mother has gone. leaving with
the man she learned to fear, her
children.
1t must have been in a moment
of madness that she conceived the
idea of fight, else how could she
have forgotten what she owed her
babies.
Hate is Dreadful
Hate, that so often is the result
of the destruction of love, is dread
full because it iusinuates itself into
the lives of all those connected with
the two who hate. 1t brings an
Unsuitable desire for revenge, and
revenge never is gained without
suffering to innocent ones.
A home that is used to mothers
care is a lonely place after she is
gone. The children are baff1ed.
They do not know whom to blame
or what to think.
No woman can be blamed for leav-
ing man who miStreats her, ply
sically, mentally or any other way.
But, a mother must remember her
first duty is to the children she has
brought into the world. They must
not be made to suffer, unjustly.
Their birthright Is a home and
mother and father, as long as those
two shall live.
When it becomes impossible for
a husband and wife, who also are
father and mother, to live together,
the children at least should have
the privilege of choosing whom they
shall live with.
It is sorroWful enough for a child
to be deprived of his mother, but
to have no knowledge of her where
abouts, whether she is dead or alive,
to be unable to write or see her, or
just be secure in the knowledge she
is at such and such an address Is
cruel beyond human understanding.
She hardly deserves the name of
mother.