Show A JH PRETTY GOOD WORLD In Harpers Bazar of recent date is isan isan an nn article by a real pessimist The rhe writer pretends to have bave discovered that the bitterest sorrow of ot aged mothers Is 1 is the fact that they cannot persuade their children to follow their advice Says the writer Our sons repeat the mistakes of fathers and our daughters male make mal the mistakes ot of their th li mothers We feel that we could so so easily point to the open and fair road If our children would let us but we are areas areas areas as useless to them as guide posts posta to the blind We must watch our children lose themselves in th the tangle of o those miseries we know so well Ther There is some sone justice In the thern com corn complaint plaint but It Is not all an true In a busi business busIness business ness way boys bo s profit t by the mistakes of ot their fathers At least the example of their fathers failures deters them from similar unsuccessful ventures The average young business man of today If he has any intelligence at all aU allis aUIs allis is doing business better than his hia father did It IL The chances are he is taking care of ot a greater volume of work with W th less worry less trouble and less ex ox I penso I than his father required for the lesser volume In the smaller things of life and we wo wedo wedo do not say the smaller things are not worth while it is quite true that the youngsters often otten stumble when they need not If they would listen to the admonitions of or their elders But the copy book teaches us and life teaches us that the best Instructor is experience experience experience Parents cannot keep their thIr th lr chil children children dren from all aU the pitfalls all the dan dangers dangers dangers gers even the disasters The child that lies all aU day in its mothers arms never learns to walk alone wone By toddling a afew afew afew few steps and falling alling and getting up and trying again the art of walking w is acquired Few Pew children learn that a blaze is hot or that ice Is cold until they have come into physical contact with the heat or the cold It hurts them and through the hurt they learn to avoid It It Is Js the best possible way for them to arrive at a proper understanding of given conditions Nor is it hard on the child The youngster through hard knocks is taught is taught how to make his place in the world and how to hold it itS 1 1 S This be a very Interesting world If the way for all an of us were made smooth We Ve must learn to take ta e ethe the bitter with the sweet for through the bitter and only so we come to a proper appreciation of oC the sweet There is a monotony in perpetual sunshine just as there is a monotony In contin continuous continuous continuous rain So let us cheer chEter up old folks and nd young folks and enjoy ourselves as ts a s best we may There Is a time com corn coming comIng corning ing when we wont take tal e a great deal of or interest in the affairs of life but be because because because cause we know that we spend our time grieving |