Show 1 I The Help of the Devil 14 1 o. o I Io o c 4 By DR FRANK FRANK- CRANE There i is s no doubt that some of f our best hest qualities are developed by opposition S Children who are oppressed and abused in their youth learn earn to dodge blows and learn how to standup stand up jp against ag unfavorable circumstances in a way that favored children cannot do Charlie Chaplin it Is said was a sensitive and misunderstood child and Is still shy and timid Harvey O'HIggins ns says tha that t the man man who aho wins in n this world worM is often the man who has has entered the he race most crippled S Mark Twain in America and John Keats In England England Eng Erig- land both came Caine out of of obscure poverty Mark lark was He tile son of humble PC people In Missouri and Keats the son of a hostler in a a London livery stable who married the proprietors proprietor's tors tor's daughter Like Keats Mark tark Twain was a seven months' months child They came into this life before th they y were re ready dy Their Theil struggle was harder on that account If It a a i. i man man has hashe the he the l right stuff lin n him the sense of physical I Inferiority in inferiority inferiority in- in seems to be a quip or whip to his bis cour cour- age S Roosevelt and Robert Louis Stevenson had asthma in their infancy r. r S S The rhe famous Dr Johnson began with scrofula which blinded him in one eye ee and probably disfigured disfigured him for life He The historian GIbbon passed his child child- hood icod in chroni Illness disability and disease while Caiser Wilhelm II TI was saved from the complacent cent I st stupidity of royalty by his withered ann arm S O Higgins also mentions that Frederick Frederi k the treats Greats father was very very cruel and Dickens Di spent his life caricaturing the follies foUles of hi his p parents rents Shelley also seems to have been made by the mistakes of his lis f Walt Whitman wrote his father down as strong self sufficient manly mean angered unjust unjust the the blow the quick word the tight bargain the crafty lure Besides affliction In ones one's youth and other ph physical phy phy- disadvantages poverty is a great handicap ha to children There Is no no doubt that we should hould not put Unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary un un- necessary obstacles In the way of childhood but there is no doubt either that inevitable obstacles are ire a challenge to whatever ability a child may have naturally and that the superior persons in the world have been those who have surmounted surmount d the hurdles of youth routh Copyright 1926 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |