Evening star., 1936-01-28

from n0dlly want Dut IRON SOUL
starvation. Cast out as you were by
your mother and sent to roam the
streets like homeless dog, it would
have been a miracle if you had not
drifted into the gutter and become
the companion of crooks and thieves.
as thousands of other homeless and
jobless boys have done. Inevitably
your morals would have been COR
rupted, your outlook on life distorted.
your faith in all that was good and
true destroyed.
From this calamity your kind q,
friends have saved you. They have
given you home and decent living.
They have surrounded you with love
and affection and have kept up your
morale. For that you have to thank
them far more than for keeping you
from starvation.
For this they neither want nor
expect to be paid in money. That
puts the obligation on you to repay
them In affection and consideration.
and in being the kind of man they
want you to be. After what they
have done for you, you can't let them
down by turning gutter or renegade.
or by becoming cheap sport or
tinhorn crook. You've simply got to
be honest and honorable in your deal
ings. You've got to show ambition
and industry. You've got to make
the sort of man they would be proud
Of, instead of one that will make them
wonder why they bothered to save you.
You show the right spirit in want-
ing to pay back in money also some.
thing of what has been spent on you.
That is a debt of honor on which you
can't Welch. No man can respect
himself or be respected by others who
sits down and let's somebody else
support him. The male parasite 10
the lowest Of all created things.
You've got to be able to stand on your
feet and look the world in the eye
and tell it where to go in order TO be
a real herman.
So keep pcgging along at your Job.
Put your heart and back into 1t. Paw
a little on account as you can to your
foster-parents, and take my word for
it that any boy who has your point OF
view on life will win out. And.
perhaps, years and years after this
when you are successful and your
friends are old, you may he able to
paw your debt to them in money as
we'll as gratitude. DOROTHY DIX.
NEAR DOROTHY DIX-We have
six children. ranging from ID
years TO months in age. We are
devoted to them and anxious to do
the best we can for them, but our
theory of raising children is different
from that of my husbands sister and
her husband, and we would like to
know which you think is the better
plan.
! NY ster-in-law's children have
been babied and spoiled and kept at
| home. The Oldest son is tied to
mammals apron strings and not al
lowed to take any job that will take
him away from her. He was crazy to 90
into the United States Navy, but they
couldn't bear to be parted from him.
Now at 18 he has run off and married
and gone to another city to work.
We throw our children on their own
feet and make them stand alone. We
teach them to depend on themselves,
and if they want to join the Army or
Navy as soon as they are old enough,
we'll that's all right by us. We want
our children to grow UP strong enough
to stand alone. not always to hang
on mother and father. Which one
is right? MRS. o. H.
Answer-You are. The greatest
crime that can be committed against
child is to spoil it and pamper il
and keep it a perpetual baby. Yet
every day in their misguided love We
see mothers doing this.
THE very women who are aghast
at the idea of anybody being
inhuman enough to bind child's feet
so that it cannot walk or stand alone
physically do not hesitate to MAIN II
that way mentally. They deprive then
children of all independence Of thought
and action They never let them
decide anything for themselves. They
totally unfit them to stand alone and
fight the battle OF life. They keer
them prisoners of love who are never
permitted to go where fortune calls
them because mother cannot give ur
her precious darlings.
The world is filled with failures
men and women who are doing little
Jobs when nature intended them tc
do big things because their parents
wouldn't let them leave home. There
are thousands of men who lose the
money their fathers have left then
because father has never trusted then
to do anything but run errands
There are thousands Of old maids
whose mothers wouldn't let then
marry because they could not bear tf
give them up Selfish parental love
hobbies a child. Unselfish love set'
it free. DOROTHY DIX
| (Copyright. 1850