Show I DOROTHY DIX DX T TALKS ALKS 1 R P DIX tJ the Worlds World's orld ot raid laid Woman Writer I I MOTHERS SHOULD TEACH BOYS AND GIRLS PROM FROM THEIR CRADLES TO LAY Ufo UP LH FRIENDSHIP FOR LIFES LIFE'S I HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS RESTS WHOLLY UPON ITO ITNE IT NE of the important things that a mother can teach her chil- chil v O- O O is to make friends can do this by seeing that from Crom their verv er infancy her children associate with othet othel children that they play fair and square by b torching them S sympathy and consideration and not to be selfish and 0 0 overbearing and Z J with their little playmates playmate but always ahas a s to sho the s No other such Injustice Is ever 1 done a child as to let lot it grow up a alone alone alone lone wolf cub Only children are arc aI I alMost always eccentric and warped In character So are children who I are aro st t home by tutors and governesses The poorest school gives a child a working knowledge of its fellow creatures that no learn learn- learned learned r ed can teach it and It ItIS itis IS better for children to associate with even undesirable children than Y them alone It is IC for to grow up DOROTHY DIX MOR can any other greater misfortune rN be-rN be- be befall befall NOR fall a child than to be encouraged In The rho child who ho ho is js h as getting geWn his feelings hurt and who sulks on the outskirts of the crowd and the one who takes her doll dol and goes home whenever she cannot wake nake the other children plas pla her pla her tags lags game should be spanked and sent back bach to lo apologize to their play play- playmates playmates playmates mates instead of having mother pity pitt them for being such sensitive sens little darlings It may scorn to their mothers that It makes little difference whether heth hether er their play happily and genially with other children OJ oi hether hether they bicker bicher and quarrel with all with whom hom hom they come In con contact contact contact tact But it does it Is a thing of stupendous importance because the childs child's character and habits are being formed and its whole hole bole success anc happiness in life depends on its ability to get along with other people Whether you look at them from the material or the spirit spirit- spiritual spiritual ual point of view friends are arc the biggest asset that we have We can cash them in over the counter in hard dollar just as we can find in their affection a happiness that no money can buy A man with friends Is rich though he has nothing else The man miln without friends is a pauper though he have the wealth of Croesus UR friends male make the ladder by which we climb to success because OUR O people do things for us because they like us that they would not dot dof rou s because it was nas as our just dessert to have Ilave our 11 uses Hies es sayed A man may have an enormous talent He may have prepared him him- himself himself him him-gelt self by years of study for the work he is undertaking but If it he has an unpleasant personality it he lie has a disagreeable manner that alienate anI I us ns Instead of attracting us to him we let him severely alone We VI take our trade to the llie shops where the is frIend friendly We send for the friendly doctor when we are sick We go to the friendly lawyer when hen hea we ba have base e dealings with the courts We say the llie good word that gets the coveted position for tor our friends Never for people we vre dislike The They must shift for tor themselves eSt In business a mans man's popularity is worth jut Just so money in his pay envelope and the man who has the gift of the friends friends the faculty that enables him to make and hold customers or to handle bodies of men and women can name namo his own OVin salary THE T THE HE reverse of this Is la equally true How often orten you hear employers say that such ard such a man is so competent and faithful and honest and they y would like Wee to pu put t hImat him At the head of a department but they cannot do so because he be cannot get along with th people How often a theatrical manager will say that such a woman Is la a actress and particularly fits some part In a big pla plas he is put put- putting putting putting ting on but he cannot have her ber because she cannot get along with peo- peo people pie How many scientific doctors how bow many learned lawyers how many eloquent we know who starve along in obscurity instead of being at ut the head of ot their profession just because they cannot get Iong with wilh people Surely the tho mother who desires to see her children prosperous and successful should consider the Importance of o teaching them the art artof artof artof of making malting ti lends As lot foi our happiness t tat tat Uit at lI- lI lies lIs s entirely In the hands of our friends for we aie ale EO so constituted that we cannot live alone We must have bave companionship sympathy understanding tenderness If it we are to get any pleasure out of life The most luscious dinner is dust and ashes In our mouth If we eat it alone while bread and cheese becomes a banquet In gay and Joyous company A palace becomes a bleak prison If its silence clience Is broken by no voice but ones one's own but two who love cn Can make heaven of a single room To travel by ones one's self Is to be a wayfarer solitary and lonely but there Is a never ever never ending ending joy In the Journey we take with pleasant people AND AND ND when the storms of ot misfortune break above our heads our only comfort Is In our friends in friends in the hands bands that are stretched out to tous tous tous us In the dark In dark in the knowledge that our sorrow of those who love lovo and us-and us and In the practical help that comes from those who set us on our feet agam again when hen we stumble and falL fall No grief is Ia so bitter as that weeps alone with none to pity none to succor Now friends are neither an accident nor t the e gift of God They are our own handiwork We make them or lose them according to whether we are arc friendly and kindly and generous generou and nd helpful to others or whether we selfishly and morosely lve Ive to ourselves WE WE SHOULD then teach our children flom their cradles to lay up fi lust jUt as we teach them to save sae sas sa e their pennies in order that thal they may be rich in their old age aRe For friends are the most Ot vaIn vaIn- valuable valuable able assets financially that we can have DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1923 1323 by Public Ledger Company |