Show FAMILIES A generation AGO seemed to think more of real essen bials to happiness it isn t often that a mother goes back to the threshold of her own mar red r ed life for the benefit of her own children when she does she may tell them that when I 1 married your father he made 12 a week and he did not have any nest egg in the bank he had been taking care of his moth er and sister and the marriage of your aunt made our union possible we had hardly a stick of furniture at the start and it almost seemed as though you three older children were babies all together but somehow these little families millea ta of a generation or so ago managed for they loved each other they worked and they did not have the foolish ideas about keeping up appear ances that play such an important part and work such havoc in homes today to day it if the mother is the kind that is not ashamed of the simplicity and per haps poverty of her early beginnings as a matron she will endeavor to ini P press r ess ideas of economy and truth upon I 1 her girls and also the paramount one that money is not essential to happi happl ness but that the love of a good man and a quiet place called home are chicago journal |