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Show FRICTION IN FAMILY IS FATAL i a Unpleasantness in Home Creates Intangible In-tangible lmpa!p?b!e Atmosphere, Driving Children Away. A few sarcastic words from the father, fa-ther, a sharp retort from the mother, that was all. But was it all? What hbont the effect upon Johnnie and Susie, Su-sie, sitting there quietly at their evening eve-ning lessons? And did neither parent notice that Thomas slipped out of the house at the first intimation that there was to be a quarrel between father and mother? For quarrel it really was, although brief and clothed in the language lan-guage of educated, respectable persons; per-sons; and long afler these harsh and unkind words had been spoken the atmosphere at-mosphere of the family living room remained charged with an emotional disturbance in which no one could concentrate con-centrate his mind upon his reading or study. Family friction Is always fatal to happiness, says Mary A. Lasnlle in Mother's Magazine, and when there are ch'hlrcn in t lie home it is almost sure t3 work irreparable harm upon their minds and 'ls. One of the most powerful causes of fh1 rxmlus of young people from their homes at an age when they are not fitted to enter upon the work of life Is friction in the family. Young people are by nature loyal to their parents and it is nlmost never that a young person will give as a reason for his leaving home the fact that his father and mother quarreled or nag at each other or do not agree upon certain points. Friction In the home creates an Intangible. In-tangible. Impalpable atmosphere In which the sensitive child chokes and pants for the free air of happiness, or Is warped and stunted mentally and morally. |