Show A word to parents abraham Lincoln the martyred president when about to leave his old home alter lie had attained the highest honor that a great nation could bestow upon him closed an address with ulicee words neighbors give your boys a chance we would repeat these words and say to every father and mother give your boys a chance these are days of action and exacting competition days when moral courage and brain power count days wherein there can only bo a survival of alie men who are mentally and physically the fittest abide from the duty which you owe tho state oi giving to its sons and daughters who will win their way lionor ably in life there is a parental duty devolving upon you to qualify them for the battle which they will have to wage in the worlds great arena whether bleir lot be cast in the professions or in the no ICES honorable field of and honest toil favored they justly are in the family circle the day must come when in the inexorable law of fato their chairs will be emp tyBy conr fireside and they will be out struggling alone in the world with only their merit to aid them you will follow them with your best wishes applauding their every effort and cheering them on in their successes but grateful as will bo your encouragement how very little balm will it bo if despite his efforts the goes backward and the neighbors boy mounts up to heights upon which ho was bent in the earlier days of this land you may have had to till and toil knowing little of leisure and of luxury but for what wag it all first eliat you might have a competence and next and always that your children might obtain positions higher and even better than your own you mothers know the pride you have in your bons eons you know that deep down in auar hearts is a well of tender ness and ot lovo for evan the erring one you know well as the world does that his success ib heaven to you bis failure a heartache keener than even his own what then should you do in the words of lincoln give your boy ft chance give him an education that will fit him to copo with the best teach him to love his home and teach him that in it he will find civilizing and educational influences if he has been to college dont let his education stop theio it he had not enjoyed the advantages of a good education encourage him now lie may be smart naturally but if he has nothing but his natural talents to help him there will surely come a time just as he is mounting highest when this lack of education will handicap him grievously the time to remedy this is the present in the en britannica now offered to readers of at 10 cents a day you will have a library fully the equal of any in the land it Is a digest of art science literature history and invention an epitome of all that is good and lasting a moral drawn from the works of men and nations I 1 sirs peterson dressmaker at 2638 washington avenue left thursday evening for germany on a visit before returning she will visit berlin and paris on her return slie will bring with her the latest styles and fashions and will be at lier old stand t |