Show r DOROTHY DIX TALKS TALK H DOROT niX DIZ tho Worlds World's World PAId Pla Woman ITS IT'S KINDER TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN OBEDIENCE AND SELF CONTROL THAN TO GIVE IN TO THEM FOR LIFE DIS DIS- DISCIPLINES DIS- DIS DISCIPLINES DISCIPLINES US ALL AND TO PAMPERED LIFE SHOWS NO MERCY POND rOND and foolish father was as shoeing sho Ing me his beautiful daughter daughter laughter A ArOND ter She shall always do exactly as a sh she pleases I never Intend her to be controlled or made to obey or coerced coerced co- co t Into doing the things she doesn't wish j to do he saId aud II M Ah I I replied so ao you are going to let letS life discipline her It Is a cr 1 thing to do c i What do you mean he asked k I L When life lute disciplines us It does It with t ft an Iron ron rod and an It leaves us ua u crushed and B broken on the scrap pile I answered In S iL BH the end enc bitter experience teaches us th the Ics les- lessons les-I les K sons that we should have learned at our par par- ElEy knees but our hard won knowledge L Lt t comes too late to do us any good We cant can't ii- ii go back and retrieve our lost opportunities orA or orl orK l V K I A Li d J I find again the happIness that we have thrown f away rt t r REL y I went on you ou are aro not fatuous enough IL UL J to believe that tho the world IB Is s going to be especially satin gatin aUn padded for our childs child's feet or that she Is go- go goIng go going ing to escape the tho common human lot You know that she Is bound to ha hae hale e sickness and sorrow and anxiety and disappointment disappointment- You You know that she Bhe hc Is bound to meet obstacles that she sho cannot O that she will m encounter wills lulls ills stronger than her own that she will find those who will ride roughshod over her feelings than they would a penny ponny and care care no DO more for tor breaking her heart beart submit to sheer brute bit of glass that many a time she sho will have to that the hour will come como when her very Iery ery salvation will de de- depend depend tyranny pend upon her ability to stand up and take punishment How is she he heto to do this If It you have not taught her self control If It you have not taught her obedience to authority If It you have not taught her to do dothe dothe dothe the right thing Irrespective e of her feelings Just because it Is her duty It Is not the raw untrained troops that win battles my soldiers soldier who wrest vic victory friend It is 15 the seasoned disciplined tory out of defeat It is not the selfish men and women the sports of their own desires and passions who make a success of life It Is the men and women who are the captains of their souls sous who are masters of their fate But the point that I am trying to make to you Is that we cannot escape discipline We cant can't do as we please We have got to learn that sooner or later Our parents must teach it to us gently while we are In the cradle or else life teaches It to us ua with a bludgeon after we are grown up V OU can begin with as simple a thing as the matter of health If It ItI you I vou ou au wont won't 1 ont teach child to deny herself anything that appeals to her at the moment life will It will give her dyspepsia If It she eats too much It will turn her Into a neurotic nerve v woman oman If It she does not control her temper It may even kill her It Jr for tor the sake of she goes out In thin satin slippers sUppers and gossamer stockings ln In sleet and aud snow sno In In a short while bile your little girl will be a big girl going gouig to school situ other girls and her happiness will wm depend upon her ber popularity If she sho has been encouraged in selfishness and the belief that her ber will was wasla la ian If it she sho takes the tho best of things for herself and is dIsregardful of othe the feelings of others she will vill be bo ostracized She will have no friends She will sIll III be left out of all 11 the good times That is the tho way that life will teach her unselfishness and that vie ie 0 have havo to give and take in the world Your girl will wiil marry Can you Wish Ish any greater curse on a man than a wife wire who has never learned to control her herself self Can you Imagine any woman making a success of mar marriage who does not bring br unselfishness and and patIence and a high sense of duty to the task Even the happiest of marriages are disillusioning Even the best of men are hard to get along with and If you have not taught your girl to tarry on In the face of difficulties If you have not taught her how to give In gracefully and to put an Iron curb on her her tongue and temper her marriage Is dead sure to go on the rocks and end In the divorce court LIrE T IFE will teach teach her patience and forbearance but it will be at the the the- price of misery and tears and a wrecked home and little half orphaned half orphaned children Suppose your daughter goes Into business There Is no place in it for women who have not been taught to control themselves who weep when their work l Is la criticized who can can- cannot cannot cannot not get along with their fellow and who lose Inte est eat In their work as soon as it becomes the dally daIly grind BUSINESS disciplines these girls by throwing them out of their jobs or b bv keeping them at the lowest rung of the tho ladder The women who succeed ale aie those Bho ho ho fit themselves Into the tho office routine who i the unquestioning obedience of soldiers and who have the tha grit grit to put all that Jg is in them Into their thelt tasks until they v win In out by sheer merit f No my friend I said In conclusion We cannot protect our children from life We can only prepared them for life and we best beat do this when we teach them self control and obedi obed ence and to do the hard things without whining For if we dont don't life does and life shows them no mercy 1 DOROTHY DIX CopyrIght 1924 by Public Ledger Company |