Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03

EAR MIDI D1A-1 Hdsc dp-
piled to child-carrying
agency for adoption of a
- baby girl to raise and care
for as my own, but I am bewildered
by advice to the contrary. My friends
insist that I am making mistake in
taking a child know nothing about
on the old theory that what is born
in the bone cannot be whipped out
of the hide Naturally, can't agree.
My husband and I believe that a
child raised in a Christian home and
educated in the right way will be a
blessing to us in the years to come.
Please advise me. MRS. j. D. l..
Answer-My earnest advice to you is
to disregard the croakings of your
friends and go along and adopt your
baby. I do not think that any one
can do finer thing than to take a
poor little homeless, lovelesS, name
less baby and give it chance in life.
To save a little child from the cold
charity of an institution and give 1t
the warm arms of a mother; to give
it tenderness and personal care and
a happy home to grow up in; to give
it a kind and wise father to guide
it along the right way of life instead
of leaving it to stumble ignorantly
into its pitfalls. is to make the world
over for a human being and to take
the curse off of the undeserved fate
that has befallen it.
x X x X
TT rs a grand thing for a man and
woman to do, and it is one of the
good acts that brings its own reward.
For the parents of adopted children
seem nearly always to be fonder of
them and to get more pleasure out OF
them than real fathers and mothers
do out of theirs.
Doubtless this is because people do
not take upon themselves the care
and expense of children unless their
paternal instinct is starved, and they
ache for the feel of little arms around
their necks and the sound of baby
feet pattering over the floor. But,
whatever the reason, you will find
that adopted children almost invaria-
bly, bring happiness in their hands as
a gift to their foster parents.
Of course, as your friends warn you
there is an element of danger. So
there is in having child of your
own. You don't know how an adopted
child will turn out. Neither do you
know what your own will grow up
into being. All that parents can do
is to give their children love and I'M
Outstanding and do their best to instill
good principles in them and trust
to God for the outcome.
X X X X
WHICH is the stronger influence
upon child-heredity or en-
vironment-no one really knows, but
certainly there are mighty few chill
dren who are not what their homes
and their parents make them.
So don't be afraid to adopt your lit
tie girl. With the kind of rearing that
you will give her there are ninety nine
chances out of a hundred that she will
turn out an honor and a blessing to
you.
X X X y
DEAR MISS DIX: Is married life
supposed to be fifty-fifty prop
osition, or SO per cent woman and
per cent man? I have seen cases
where the wife was the whole show,
while the husband was just sort of
q background. CURIOUS.
Answer-Of course, marriage should
be a fifty-fifty proposition, but there
is mighty little justice in this world,
and in most marriages one or the
other seems to get most of the breaks.
How this comes about it is hard to
say. Perhaps one is greedier and
more selfish than the other and so
grabs most of the perquisites of mar
rage for his or her individual bene-
fit. Perhaps one loves more than the
other and is more willing to make sac
Iifices to secure the others happiness.
Anyway, you frequently see this I'M
even division in marriage, sometimes