Show I DOROTHY M DIX TAL TALKS R It DOROTHY nix DIX IX the World Highest h t Paid Woman Writer I PARENTS WHO W NT THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO BE GOOD CITIZENS SHOULD REALIZE HOW INDULGENCE BEl SOFTENS THEM CHARACTER THEM CHARACTER IS FORMED BY DISCIPLINE AND SACRIFICE I I HE most overdressed and overindulged are those whose par par- parents THE T outs were poor in their youth The most undisciplined and uncontrolled uncontrolled trolled children are those whose parents were ft ere reared In strict and stern households j When you yeu see fee a little IttIe girl playing around 1 In ln a lace I and embroidered dreas dr 3 and andrS 4 y K u silk stockings asi you do not need to be be- told r SaMU that at her age her mother wore wre gingham a- a 1 and went barefooted When you see a young I iKa f Ki boy Do splitting the road open In an Imported i B car you know ow that when his father was a alad af K Sf fv lad Id he ho Ii trudged on foot to the tho factory with IB JH his dinner pall pail on his arm rm f Shiy P I IHEN WHEN Tl 1113 HEN you see ill III mannered oung people ho aho 4 smoke and drink and carouse and recognize no nol law but hut their own pleasure who aho ho run shod rough over B- B Q V the rights of ot others who have no rc for ge gt and andI BiG vho ho either patronize th their lr parents 01 oi treat them with andI I Tr iU contempt 3 ou oIl know that they are arc the offspring of DIX and mothers who were ere given few privileges when they were ere young and who were ere coerced by de determined and strong handed banded parents Into walking the straight and nar- nar narrow narrow nar narrow row path Noth Nothing Ing is more common than to hear people say lay I I dont don't want my children to te be denied things as I was In my child childhood hood I I dont don't want my children to have to work as I did when I was a child I 1 1 dont don't want my children to be sup suppressed pressed and tyrannized over as I was when I was young 4 INDEED so common is this feeling that sometimes It seems that the I A present generation is being brought up by y the rule of contraries and andI andI I that the only fixed Idea that many parents hae have is to rear their sons E and Slid exactly opposite from the way they were ere reared to give them e ever thing they didn't have bave and md to let them do ever thing they WerE not permitted to do There is something very pathetic in this It speaks so ao eloquently of the ungratified cravings of childhood of the a w of little hands that never neer knew any of the thwarted desires for pleasure at atthe atthe atthe the time of life when one is mad foi fot amusement and It Is easy to understand why parents whose own childhood has been stinted and dull should want to lap their children in luxury ury and give them all the fun they missed But in trying to save their children from the hardshIps they have gone through they are also aiso cutting their sons eons and daughters off from the experiences that make such men and women who rise from poverty to fortune and from obscurIty to fame Fort For it is not in the lap of ease that successes are made It takes struggle and self denial and discipline to form character THAT T THAT HAT Is hy hye we e have the proverb that thai It Is three generations from shut t sleeves to 10 shirt slee es The poor man by bv energy and Indus try piles plies up a fortune but because he lie has had to work ork and save in his bis I he be teaches his Ius children to be Idlers and astel s and spenders ad and and- they run through their fortune and then thell children must go to a 1 orK Fagain aG again ln at the bottom of the wheel abeel heel I F 4 43 1 J Probably the children of the self If made man have naturally just as much ability as he has but they nearly always amount to nothing because their foolish father has denied them all the advantages he had when he was young and enervated them with Indulgences I PEOPLE P EOPLE who hae have brought up in homes almost In in-A in variably let their children run wild They The put no restraints upon them They demand nothing of them They resent the lack of liberty they had hM in their south and so they give their children license They do not seem to realize that the system at which they rail made good citizens instead of the hoodlums which they are turning out They do not reflect that they owe their health and strength to clean living tha that they were made to todo todo do todo things they formed habits of industry that because they were made to do hard things Just because it was a duty to do them they developed the grit which keeps men and women from being quitters that because they were taught obedience and self control they became captains of their own souls and masters of their fate Instead of being the playthings of theIr passions and emotions THEY THEY HEY must know If K they tT av fron to iA think T at all u how much kumi beller beiler i Ai fitted rr- rr L I A they were to meet life Ufe ho hov much more secure they were ere of hap hap- I happiness than are their children who ho ba have hae e never been taught to do any any- thing anything they do not want to do or to deny es the gratification teof f ot any appetite or desire desiro For life doesn't change T Tie The e world does not alter and no matter I how bow much we would like a soft pad existence for tor our children and stand between them and every hardship and sorrow we ae e cannot do It At thi last In one way or another they must come to grips with fate and ahen hen they do the weak weal and dissolute will perish Thi Th spendthrift alli Ill come to want ant The self Belt seekers will ailt have their hearts broken brohn Of course It Is a great temptation for parents to lavish upon their children very everything thing that money will buy and it Is much easier to give strong willed wined youngsters their heads and let them go their own gait than It is s to hold them in check but that way destruction lies for the child And this Is some some- something something something thing that parents who are denying their children the struggle struggle gle of life that made them what they are aro do well to reflect upon DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1924 by Public Ledger Company |