Show DOROTHY D DIX TALKS H 1 DOROTHY Y DIX the ho World orld lt Woman Writer rIter THROW YOUR YOUNG OUT OF NEST AND MAKE THEM USE OWN WINGS WINGS-IS WINGS IS DOROTHY DIXS DIX'S ADVICE TO MOTHERS OF PARASITIC CHILDREN WOMAN OlfAN OMAN who ho has a small Income i wants ants to know how long it Is fg a 1 A mother s duty to support her children alter after thoy are lire grow gro crown gron n She Sho Sh aa aas avi s that she sho lisa haj a ft daughter who ho earns carns a good sultry as a teacher but that thai the the girl spends all that she makes on herself and aud refuses to ti pay board or contribute In any way ay to the tho tir C upkeep of the home horn And the th mother to know kno 1 what hat bat to do about it II Perhaps a mother ne neer never er confronts d a mote moie difficult problem than thea that of ot ho hoto boy hoy to I Ideal deal with Ith a ft gra ung child It Is h a c that calls call foi s aj much grit fit and backbone that most moil women omen Just UI up their hands and quit when they arc confronted 11 it Mother Iother 10 love lose e and tenderness moth mOlher mother er fears and apprehensions the mother habit o of self Belt sacrifice make them take tin take lb yc line of let lent resistance and permit them them- J selves to be the tir victims of their la lazy and anci selfish sons and daughters 4 They lack the wisdom and the th 4 1 courage of the th sparrow that builds its see nest under their windows and who pushes her young out of the nest when DOROTHY DIX the proper time comes for them to u ue e ether their ther own wings and hustle for their own worms worm The human n rother with a iI brain mary times bigger bugger than the birds bird's has not sense tense enough to see tec that Just Justas justas justas as it Is It a a mothers mother's duty to warm warn and nourIsh her fledgling it is equal equally equally ly Iy her duty to throw them off orr on their own when they Ire are old enough and strong enough to t stand alone HERE arc are few tow more mor contemptible creatures in III the tir world orld than the THERE T parasitic child The very depths of meanness and iris been sounded by the tb man and woman oman lo to her of th the tho comforts comfort that she h should l hn have hae e in bet hei old age ace and lay upon her ber fl hail all shoulders the bUl den of ot their We 1 have hate all seen the tragedy of o the dead beat children A oma workIng such miracles of finance us ns only mothers can work ork ork has up a ft family on a shoestring Income God only kno knows s by what labor by bv hat SI bat struggle b what hat bat self denial she his hs got Kot them educated and held them m in a decent place In society When hon her soul tainted fainted within her with weariness of the Ibe sordid struggle she the heartened herself by thInk thInkIng tog Ing that as a soon as the he children were Mere on their 0 own oan n feet she would Le be Leable beable able to take life I easier and iD indulge luge herself K In a fe fc of the comfort she craved ed Perhaps some of the tho ho children justified her hopes Cut there Ihre vias as as a craven son or daughter Mho ho had no compunction about taking laking akin th Ih bread out of ot mothers mother s a mouth and the clothes off oft her back Ho lie or she was too temperamental toI to I 01 Oik k l It Mas as to work Moric orl mother molher Ihan Ihanto to knuckle down to a ft hard ard job He or she the as M s as S too self indulgent to deny himself or Dr herself the pleasures that tempted and so he lr or she got Into debt and mother had to ply py tho th piper He lie or she could not stand the gaff catt of ot matrimony an and l same running back home to mothel generally with t to t o 0 or thre three children for tor mother molher to t And mother lacked the vertebrae to stand t up and shut too te door In their faces and tell them that they must fight their owl ow battles and that they owed It to their own manhood and woman womanhood omal- omal hood to stand alone and carve out their own fortunes and not to tobe tobe tob be beholden to anyone any one for their livelihood f OF O COURSE you see ie the mothers mother's mother point ot or view ew and ho how ho the she just justi J him food when alien hell he be Is hun bun hungry ties lies tie her ber weakness How cn cm I refuse gry What will become of ot him if it he lie cannot be sure of fInding aith Ills his mother she Well Wll what would become of him nine times out of or ten is that he would have hav to go to t WOI k and he would woul make an horest in- in industrious Industrious in industrious man Instead of becoming a worthless loafer There is ic no 4 Incentive to industry like the knowledge that if one does docs not work neither will he eat and that if he doesn't stick to his hit job he will nd his nights on a park bench Instead of in on a bed THERE ER are ar thousands ot boys toys and girls sirls who are born bom with that tired 1 feeling that makes maks them hate halo the very Cry ery sIght of ot anything that looks like steady employment They ba have base e no ambition to 10 achieve anything except the pleasure of o the moment their enerS runs to i dancing dancin Their only serious desIre Is tor for a good time and good clothes and they wilt will never neer do anything or amount to a ft roof ro row ro of ot pins while mother Jets them sponge on herAs herAs her herAs As long Ions ashey as hey can hold up mother for three mals m als a la anil ani comfortable lodging they Mill III never neer work ork and the er verv sah ial atlOn of their souls depends on mother mothers s a ha hav ha lUg ing in the sen ser sene e to chuck them out and tell HIll them that they ha hae have e got tot to earn their 0 own n bread and butter or go to without it It I Is mother who l Is accessory before the crime for nine tenths of the gangsters and the girls who walk the streets She could have made them decent honed honest citizens If she had taught them them to o earn their Instead of grafting it AJO MO WOMAN need fear that she Is working a hard hardship on her children No L when she tho forces them to become self supporting Tho The parasIte Is IB never happy because he or she sir Is bound to be a ft liar and a S It I Is only the men and women who earn their own living j and pay their own way who are ar free tree and contented and self Gelf respecting ti THEREFORE THEREFORE I sa av to lo eser e mother Follow the thc examples of ot the birds Throw your oung out of the tho nest and make them use uie u e their own wines sings Ings DOROTHY DIX COP right 19 1923 3 by PubliC Ledger Company |