| Show CHILDREN OF THE RICH THE SOURCE OF ALL TRUE HAPPINESS UNKNOWN TO THEM pacts facts concerning the neglected class in any the restraints stra ints which wealth enoth noth ing to wilk avid and plan contrasts there is apparently hothir nothing more needed at this dis time than a society for tho the amelioration of the ho condition of tile lie children of the rich the poor children cli ildren appeal to the sympathies ot of every one we have them with us on our hearts and consciences sciences always but the children of the rich are the most neglected class in any community first they are neglected by their own parents what with the summer months at a gay watering place and tho the winter spent in fit the giddy whirl of society it Is a fortunate child of the rich who knous its own mother the fathers business occil occupies his time and thou thoughts lits from 20 to CO 60 years of ago age lie finds that all 0 of his faculties facilities are arc required to repair the damages of one panic and provide pi ovide in fit advance for another it if the child is 13 nie well clothed and has his or her school bills sent sek in regularly the mail of business cares bc bf ieves lie has fulfilled all the obligations of an all indulgent father conscious that lie has done one more for liis his child than was iwas done for or him thus the child is driven back on his nurse or tile the groom or the butler butier according to ago age or condition for sympathy and fellowship here it if not liis manners anners rn his morals and his views of life re aa formed DELIGHTS anat art ARC DENIED but of these disadvantages tile the child is not himself conscious until later in fit life he reviews his beginnings what most troubles him is alie th restraint which the wealth of his parents imposes on oil liis his action lie ile is cut off from the associates of his own age if we except a few caged animals like unto himself of the tree free dom of 3 auth ho he knows little or nothing the delight of anticipation is denied by the gratification in fit advance of all wishes for balls bats kites kite and the thousand and one things which the happy boy of the poor makes for himself no rich boy ever felt the thrill of delight of conscious s power which comes to the boy wilo who has constructed out ont of kotbin nothing a kite that is I 1 saili sailing tig to the stars and almost most drawing him after it the boy of the rich has bought for him biose lopsided fantastic fanta tie japanese abortions which do not taho naturally to the varying waves of our upper atmosphere for the child of the rich there is nothing to wish tor for to plan for to deny ones self tor for everything is at his command and his boyish nature is smothered by his unusual privileges if ho he is permitted to go to the circus at all it is only with some old fellow whose memory of his youth lias has faded and to whom the smell of the sawdust has no suggestion sug gg estion of past delight and as lie he paid at the door for a reserved ed seat the poor child of destiny has no thrill of fear and terror when the boy with tho the lemonade whispers to the man at the door and poin points significantly in his erection 1 IN us NATURAL STATE A boy in his natural state is all aa animal who revels in the freedom f of disorder and under the system of doing for himself learns to do for others every faculty he has is quickened by exercise and hidden strength developed under necessity but the son of the rich is as wo we have said aid a caged and pampered animal before ho he reaches years of conscious intelligence lie he is the victim of ennui and all ambition has died within him ile he is not spurred on by the thought that one lay day he may be president lie does not understand why one should want to be president and besides lie he learns from school books that it is a position reserved for the sons of poor but honest parents the contrasts as they suggest themselves are innumerable they ire sufficient for a volume enough have been noted to convince the reasonable man who has lasin in liia mind any recollection of his youth that the children of the rich have as 3 et A an unrecognized cu claim tit on oil our sympathies that they live without tear fear or hope that they are denied alike the pains and pleasures of early ears cars that they are imprisoned from the beginning begent 1 hil 1 I andio hedged in by convent conventionalism ional ism that the source of all true happiness is ever known to them it is strange that in this period of 0 the world with societies innumerable we should not have organized p society tor for tho the amelioration of the condition of the children of the rich louisville courier journal |
