Show I I 1 x I EXPERIENCE 1 Copyright l 1921 1921 by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc I I If It we parents could w we would v ld shut our chii children ren up In satin lined d j Jewel wel boxes and Iced Keep l'-CI them tIem from all an contact with real life said an old woman the other day cLy i Y i When a mother looks at the thc babe on her breast she went on she sh II could weep weep to think that th the the little eyes must k know V o the salt smart smart of of t tears that the little hands must grow w ary ry with toll toil that the little feet teet must stumble al along ng rocIy pathways s r If she could havo have her W way her child would I never ne know an anything but softness softnesS' and ease ease- anc and Joy and lauchter The t phrase on par parent lips Is I I dont don't want vant my children n t to tohmo I hmo have to go so through what I have gone gone I through It Is the excuse that mothers rs orr offer r for tor railing falling to teach their daughters d I an anything thing about sewing an and Wo Yo ha had 1 to drudge c like servants ants In our oui girlhood girl girl- hood they thc sa say Bay and we want our girls to o be be carefree CAREFREE It Jl Is the tine apology y man many a a self mado j I man makes for tor Jetting his hiM sons son a grow row up uJ to be nothing good-for-nothing Idlers and wast- wast wasti i ers I 1 ha had 1 a hard bard starved c boyhood h he j I says l 1 had t to go to work was WIlS i nothing more than thana a n kid I never meyer had nn any decent clothes or Cr any playthings s. s or oran an any 11 of the luxuries I led Ion the tho rich boys boys' for having ha Thank God I 1 can Con save Have my tons sons from tho the hardships I t had to en- en I duro Often Orten A tt mother will bitterly oppose I i I her ber daughters daughter's marriage to a worthy I I young oung man whose h sc only fault tault is his po nov nov- v- v crt erty I 1 cant can't bear Leal to see m my girl marry a a. poor man man she will say for 1 know i how hard Is is' the lot of or the poor mans man's 1 wife I Know from experience how sor sor- did lid are the ceaseless ceaseless' economies s' s where one ono must count every venn how wear wearIng wear wear- lug Ing are the anxieties when the wolf Is I never a stones stone's throw throwaway away from the door what t a a crucifixion to the pride Ide I shabby habby clothes and humble hom homes homs s' s are arc how tho the ov o o flesh and nerves u I give away away when a woman must cook and sew and wash nn and 1 scrub with a I fretting baby In her arms and another clinging to her skirts I 1 know I am worl working ln too hard hart and anel need a I long vacation a man will sa say but 1 want to make enough mone mone- mone to start tart m my my bo boys s at the top tOJ and amid put them In inn white collar Jobs I dont don't want want- th them m to have to be begin ln n ut at the bottom as ns I I Idid Idid I Idid did I know from how hard hird Is the climb and how It take takes every aery every ounce of oC rJ fight ht and determination and grit gilt that Is In you ou to make malc you struggle gl on Instead t Ad of or giving up Perhaps I am ami I Killing myself as S my doctor tars nays but I at an any rate 11 1 save avo my ray children from I all all I went through DOING INJURY I j And n 1 these doting parents n never vcr seem I to r realize that In tr trying to ke keep l their children from being being- drafted Into the great battle of life liCe the they are doln doing them the injury that Is possible Tho They I are arc turning them then lilt unto Into 0 slackers rs instead Instead ad of making milking out of or them Thc They are making malting weaklings s and cowards out of or their sons arid daughters daughter Instead 1 of or brave c strong men nun and women These parents are arc den denYing their children chil chil- dren the opportunity the they had har In life lire themselves s The They arc are depriving their their- children of or time the greatest JO Joy that the they them themselves ches have ever er known for it Is la I the che e o and tho the fight tight that are worthwhile worthwhile worth while that make men men and V women men not the Ictor victory The fun run Is In making tho the fortune riot not In the tho things ft It Il buys jou ou ou I There There's 39 19 per cent thrill In chasing a A. dollar and only 1 per cent thrill In spending It To h.- h. and I yo young poor and full rull of plans and audI Ambitions s and self confidence tl to ho bo bubbling with over over oer ones ono's work to have h lit little tic triumphs triumph t nd I foci rea oneself a rung higher on the ladder lad lad- ocr der er to know that certainty c. that one can on ones one's own feet an and 1 only a n chance hance from the world ha has lIfe rot ot anything better hetter to offer the young oun than th that OLD STRUGGLES I It what the successful old man and old woman like lM host t to recall The Time I bl big banker the tine nt prince will not talk to you ou about what he Is doing now but hi his eyes eves light Hunt with fire when ho he tells yo yoU ou of or the deals lie he put through h on n a when he was HI making his 1119 start The woman swathed In lii P rih finery tin fin er Cr ery lolling In her limousine thinks think with nv of or tho timo d da M when she d her own onn hah baby laby carriage and wem home to mo o cook her hr mans man's dinner sari and listen with halted baited breath to h h's hs of or how fow now thin went In the store More Sh She mn tee see in th I whole wo wo-hl now DOW but In It tt It will her pul pulse ai ns did 1111 the tho i ht willi r n or t the savings honk hank book hook wIt with the pitifully I smell entry of ot their first deposit V Yet Vet thee v very t kry P people Pe would d deny denv nY their children these experiences S because e they are hard and might ht hurt th them m. m A Aa As well might you ou keep heeP a child chUd from learn learn- 0 1 In ing r to walk because It Il Is In iii danger of or ort of t falling failing and bruising bf Itself BiGGER AND BETTER I t I 1 mr myself have been young oung and am am now old In lii m my long life I 1 have known almost every en vicissitude of fortune I 1 j i have been rich an and 1 desperately poor I II have havo had 10 love lo and seen een It prove provo un unfaith raith- raith ful I nave borne children and wept I e aboe their graves e I have hae had hael success f fand and known failure I 1 have hav had my hour of oC rapture my ray night In and now looking back over oer my In expert expert- erl emes I. I would not have havo c U them i cli changed h n I am glad that the tho W Wa way has been heen hard harel Instead of or smooth for b by so much as I have h. hart had the strength th to e endure endur- b by so 11 mu much h am I a n hl bigger er and better woman wom and a wiser wiRer one I IAmon Among Amon m my friends friend are a R r few w women wIno who ho have lived 1 In cotton wooli nil all aUth th their lr lives They went from rich and Indulgent indulgent gent fathers to rich sarI and Indulgent enl husbands hus bus bands and nel even fate rate has kept from them the or ordinary sorrows o of humanity Vh When n i I look at nt them It Is with pit pity not en envy i l' l Ah my dear lear I 1 say sa sato 1 to myself ou have missed the time best hest timing thing In iii th the th world i You have had h no e experiences You have havo never ne really lUred lIed but ut I who havo have been through he the muck of or the thc battle I T who have known struggle It and anguish and anxiety and hunger Want no nV ns well ns us jO Joy and m 1 per pence and comfort I have hav touched d 11 life at every angle I have h lived |