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Show FAMILIES A GENERATION AUO. Seemed to Think More of Real Essentials Essen-tials to Happiness. ft Isn't often that n mother rocs hark to the threshold of her own married mar-ried llfo for thd benefit of her own Children. When she- does she may teU them that "When I married your father ho mndo $12 a week and he did not have any nest egg In the bank. He had beon taking care of his mother moth-er and sister and the marriage of your aunt made our union possible. We had hardly n stick nf furniture at the start, and It almost seemed ns though ou throe older children were babies all together." Hut somehow these little families of n generation or so ago managed, for they loved each other. They worked and they did not havo tho foollih Ideas about keeping up appearances appear-ances that play such an Important part and work such havoc In homes to-day. If the mother Is the kind that Is not aRhamed of tho simplicity and perhaps per-haps poverty of her early beginnings as a- matron, she will endeavor to Impress Im-press Ideas of economy and truth upon her girls and also tho paramount one that money Is not essential to happiness happi-ness but that tho love of a good man and a quiet place called uimuo are. Chicago Journal. |