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Show A WORD FOR FATHER With all his faults they love him still, especially when he trudles his little wad home and extends an in vita'ioi. 'o every member of the family fam-ily to help themselves. Father has progressed so far as a fair imitation of a human being thai he is gaining a more secure foot-bold as one of tin necessary evils. peaking of ihis poor Individual 1U0 lndiAnapoiis News makes bold to say: "When a man succeeds in living a good or useful lit" - that fact Is usually a-tribute-: to the Influence of a ; other. When men talk of dus j ast p. : vord brings forth n.cro trc.i.-ured memories than 'mother.' When a lawyer wishes to urnuy a Jury's compassion for a rlk-n: lie j of conviction on the mother. Invariably speaks of the cnv. u ' Poets, dramatists, and fid on writers of all ages huie um'ed In honoring her mime. Pa- have been set aside In her hoi or. pensions are gicti her. eocilies founde 1 fur her. All this is well. The world would be a sorry world. If it were not so. Hut is there not danger of father being overlooked In the shuffle? The aw-rag- father succeeds pretty well in ,1 s. harg-Ir.g harg-Ir.g his duty to society. II.. labors la-bors along per-cM nf !y and ruletly for six da;. a we. -It th.it his family may be provide. 1 for; he stands l.-t-Acn his family and the world. shoul-derlng shoul-derlng the responsibility of the i rent, the taxes, the grocery and the cnal bill: be ad:r.n::i ,es Ih-boy Ih-boy and advises mother, seeking always to make th.-ir burden lighter; be works iiti mngl . without. con. pi, lint. flgh'lng. scheming, sufferins: to the one end that his family may be assured as-sured comfort an I Independence. Indepen-dence. In this he .no:. iet ;rr.r i fails. Nut lie keeps on tr ing. cheerfully, stolidly, s' uhborr.ly plugging along to the end. "The sacrifice th.it nro.1 be made be makes wi;i;n:ly. The boy must, go to colN-i-e ftnd the girl must have music 1. sunns, i something must be cut. and usually It Is sortie luxury of I father's that perish.- by the wayside. He Is not no poetic, il a figure ns mother, not so demonstrative de-monstrative In his affection, so elated In plcnsure, B,, , prc.;.:,,l In grief. And yet many will re. memher a kind word here, or a thoughtful act there, lh.it stands out clear and distinct, ns one of ynufh's happiest Impressions. Not often Is lie appreciated by the, growing boy. Often he stands In the family as the olli-clnl olli-clnl admonlshcr to whom the boy's faults nre related for punishment. pun-ishment. On him falls the 1111- - pleasnnt. task of applying the rod; his Is the nrra that mus' enforce respect for mother and regard for the rights of others. In this light, the growing boy Is likely (o view him with n mixture mix-ture of fear, awe ii ii ij respect. Not until years brings n proper perspective Is he r i K 1 1 ' fully understood un-derstood 0 11 '1 appreciated, and i perhaps not even then." If this open approval of father keeps up he may someday nu'ain Ihe standing that fathers had In the days when (he obi man had a great ileal to sny about family affairs. And father fa-ther could be given his dues without with-out In any way dolrnctlng from th glory that must always he mother's. J.bI.'r get In Ihe game and glv hint A rhnnce any way. Just to see what he will do. |
