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Show WITH THE I HIGH SCHOOL j ; CLASSICS ; Mwu!Hiuittutiiiiiiin:ttittiHtiniiHH4UW4iiiioiiuiiitiin!ituiirtiijmiitiiitiiititiioiiimiiiiiiik ; ; By MARGARET BOYD ( by Margaret Boyd.) , "I've often offered to take the management man-agement of things, but you know you've taken it ill always, and seemed to think I wanted to push you out of your place." Silas Marner. There Is nothing that Is able to hold its place in the world without constant struggle. One of the keenest of all struggles Is that between the established estab-lished generation and the rising generation, gen-eration, whether of plants or animals or men. Long ago, Abrara and Lot, the older generation and the younger, found that "the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together," and they separated, tbe young man going to live in the cities of tbe plains, the older one going to live Va tbe country coun-try of Canaun. Their example has been followed by many millions since. The age-old struggle between father and son Is embittered by the fact that neither recognizes It as a part of the natural working out of nature's laws, but each regards his own case as unique. There is in hardy families an interval of from ten ti fifty years between the time the son feels capable cap-able of taking over the management of the farm or business or profession and the time the father feels ready to step out. During all this period It Is to the young man's interest to push his father out of his place, and It is to the older man's Interest to hold his own. The result Is usually much the same as that observed when a young tree grows up close to its parent oak. After both have struggled strug-gled in vain to monopolize ail the sunlight sun-light and water within their area, they compromise by growing normally ' on the side away from each other sad by dying off on the side next to each other so that you will never see perfectly developed oak unless you find one that stands alone. The struggle is bitterest where tha father comes into his fullest earning power late In life notably in the professions pro-fessions of medicine and of the law. "An unpractlced observer," says Dr. Johnson, "expects the love of parents par-ents and children to be constant and equal; but this kindness seldom continues con-tinues beyond the years of infancy; in a short time the children become rivals to their parents. Benefits are allayed by reproaches, and gratitude debased by envy. , . . Tbe opinions of children and parents, of the young and the old, are naturally opposite, by the contrary effects of hope and despondence, de-spondence, of expectation and experience, experi-ence, without crime or folly on either side. . . . Thus parents and children, for, the greatest part, live on to love less and less." ". , . the Lammeters had been brought up In that way that they never suffered a pinch of salt to be watted, and yet everybody In their household had of the beat, according to his place." Silas Marner. There are wasteful persons and thrifty persons In every nation; but when the percentage of wasteful persons per-sons Is very high, we speak of the nation as wasteful, and when the percentage per-centage of thrifty persons is high, we speak of the nation as thrifty. America Amer-ica has the reputation of being one ef the most wasteful nations on earth ; France has tbe reputation of being one of the thriftiest. One drawback to popularizing thrift In our country Is that so muny people confuse thrift and stinginess. Part of our extravagance is probably prob-ably due to the fact that we are still close to pioneer conditions when game and fish and timber were so plentiful that there seemed no possibility of exhausting ex-hausting the supply, and consequently no need for thrift. I'art of It is also probably due to the fact that many of our housekeepers grew up on farms where there were always pigs and chickens and cots and dogs to eat all table scraps and kitchen waste. Broken bread, bits of meat, thick parings and uneaten food seemed no waste when thrown into the swill barrel, to be fed to tbe pigs. Nowadays, Nowa-days, however, the farmer knows that his pigs and chickens thrive better on a proper diet than on table scraps; and what was formerly fed to them Is now burled or burned. When a farmer kills a beef or a bog or a sheep, there is usually much waste. Often he wastes th very portion por-tion of the animal that iiieal eatlnj savages and meat-eating- animals consider con-sider the choicest part of the carcass the blood and glandular organs. In the large packing plants, wbere s few cents saved on each animal slaughtered slaugh-tered amounts to hundred of thou' sands of dollars In s jesr, there Is no psrt of the carcass allowed to gt to waste. No one speaks of the packers pack-ers ns stingy hut ss efficient. With them the value of thriftlness shows, because the quantities handled are so large. When our homes are run as eftl clently as the largo packing plants, we shall have more housekeepers such as the Lanitiieter sislers hoiiseki Sp-era Sp-era who waste absolutely nothing and vet provide their Onuilles situ Ui jest of everything. |