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HELPING YOUNG POLKS TO GET A START.
I want to ask the Household if they think it is
right for a father, who is well to do, to withhold
giving his grown children any help in getting started
in life, while always saying that he has worked
only for his children and will leave them all his
property at his deaths A little given them at the
outset would do more good and be more highly
appreciated than a legacy of thousands after they
dre Worn out in body and spirit with the hard
struggle to make a living for their families. I know
fathers Who retain and pay taxes on hundreds of
ached of land) wholly worthless to theim while their
boys to whom the gift of a few acres would be tt
boOn are living in rented houses and cultivating
rented land; I know of some men Who are really
more indulgent to their colored tenants than they
are to those of their own blood, for whom they
claim to foe working and saving. Their explanation
of this is that it will do their children good to
struggle hard as they did themselves; also, that
when a father begins to help his children they expect
him to keep on giving them aid, and do not make
proper exertion to help themselves. Yet another
reason is, that they wish to keep their property that
they may be independent in their old age—not
needing to be a burden to their children. I think
myself that it is a good plan for old people to
keep a home for themselves and enough means to
live upon, but if he is the owner of a good deal of
land, let him cut off a little farm for his children
and help them to build homes upon their land. By
doing this families will be kept together and at the
same time -parents will have the guaranty of a sup
port. This would be more gratifying to them than
to have their children scattered far and wide —
struggling to g’eit along and feeling a little bitter
ness towards the parents who refuse to help them
and insist on enjoying their houses and lands while
they are living. I may as well acknowledge that I
am personally interested in this matter. I have a
well-to-do father who gave me a good education, but
not a dollar to start me off in making a support
for my family—a delicate young wife and three
children. A thousand dollars at the beginning would
have enabled me to start a little business of my
own or go in with a Safe partner; but as it is, £ am
condemned to be a wage earner all my life.
Nbrth Carolina. CORNELIUS
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SOME MARRIED PERSONS AND SOME
Others.
“tides Ibve endure, or does it fade?” asks Bache
lor Ben Ivy, who is no doubt hesitating on the brink
of matrimony, wishing, yet fearing to take the
plunge. Well, my dear boy, some kinds of love
are dyed in the wool and keep their color, and lots
of others fade in the first wash like five-eent cali
co. I have known a young couple who called each
other dovey and honey at first, but had not been
married two years before they positively disliked
each other. They were joined together by mar
riage, but they pulled apart like two steers, une
qually yoked. I have known one of a married pair
to lose affection while the other one was still fondly
attached. What should be done 111 C3.L-CS where love
has grown cold, lam sure I don’t know. Separa
tion and divorce are heroic remedies for the trouble,
but, like most strong medicines, they leave bad re
sults. On the other ’hand, isn’t it dreadful, isn’t it
immoral -for two persons to go on living together in
the intimate relation of marriage, when they bare
ly tolerate each other? What of the children of a
household where love has no abiding place? To be
gin with, tfhey are born wrong—born of unloving
parents., and of course their natures will be imbued
wfith coldness and indifference. Growing up in a
home where they see no tokens of true affection,
they will miss the habit of tender consideration.
It they 'hear cold and cutting remarks and sarcas
tic, criticism from their parents in their every-day
intercourse with each other, or, as in some stormy
instances, constant bickerings, varied stormy quar
rels, what a demoralizing effect this will have on
their impressible minds and souls! They will not,
they can not, grow up normal men and women Such
yoking together of a pair that pull strenuously apart
seems to me to be worse than separation. A young
The Golden Age for May 20, 1909.
girl who was a schoolmate of mine—a merry-heart
ed, higih-souled young creature, was married at sev
enteen to a handsome young farmer’ Who Won her
by his persistent, passionate wooing. He had little
education, his tastes were not refined, he was sen
sual in this disposition, but she was too young to
have proper knowledge of human nature. He was
proud of having been able to carry off the belle of
the school, and he cared for ’her in a passionate
way. He took her to his farm, where housework
ami child-bearing soon undermined her health and
her delicate beauty. Then he ceased to care for her.
On her part, she lost respect and regard for him,
as soon as the glamor of fascination wore off and re
vealed his real self. When I saw her last, she was
a wreck of her beautiful, bright self, her talents
had gone to rust, aild he had no interest in life’but
her children, who, I was sorry to note, were not
affectionate or appreciative.
The moral of this is don’t marry before you are
old enough to have judgment and reason; marry
only after eanest deliberation, dispassionate study
of yourself and the one with whom you would link
your destiny. Marry in your own class, as to edu
cation, family and refinement, then don’t begin
with too much ardor; the fierce flame soon burns
down. “Love me little, love me long” is the best
motto i»r married life. At least, so thinks one who
has been married thirty years.
ELEANOR PARKER STONE.
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WINE VERSUS RAISINS.
Rum on the run, raisins on the rise, at Fresno,
Cal. The impossible has happened! Fresno, a city
of 30,000 inhabitants in the midst of the greatest
grape growing center in the United States, if not
in the world, with over 100,000 acres in vines, has
voted out the open saloon by 57 majority in a total
vote of 3,585 on the ordinance, after one of the
most hotly contested elections ever held here. The
total registration was 6,150, but some of these were
fraudulent, and an active legal department led to
Ihe driving away ot challenging of hundreds of
floaters. The churches were very active, the ladies
serving luncheon with coffee near the polls, and
piniliiig Our badges, “For the Ordinance,” on
thousands of Voters arid friends. Fifty-three sa
loons will close as a result. Some may try the
restaurant dodge for a while, but a splendid set of
“Good Government League” men have been elected
to the city council, and Dr. Chester Rowell, one of
our oldest and most highly respected physicians and
reformers, was elected mayor by a big majority, so
the law will surely be enforced. This is the largest
city in the far West to ever vote out the saloons,
and all Central California, yes, the whole Pacific
coast, will feel the inspiring effect. It is planned
to go right on till all Central California shall be
cleaned up.
Wine or Raisins?
And what about those grapes? The muscat
grapes are sun-dried into the luscious California
raisins, and these will gradually take the place of
the wine grape vineyards, though our ordinance
does not interfere with the production of wine or Rs
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wholesaling. But alltour good people of the United
States should help on this great temperance cam
paign by increasing the consumption of raisins, and
thereby encourage the industry in our valley. The
raisin is one of the most nutritious of foods, equal
in value to bread, nearly as nutritious as beef, used
as a concentrated ration by hardy mountain climbers
and explorers, utilized for the best substitute for
both meats and sugar in many groups of hard work
ing men, a delightful fruit the year around. It is
so nearly a perfect food that the army and navy
utilize it largely, and every home should learn to use
this cheap, ever-ready, and well relished substi
tute for meat. As put up in Fresno’s thirty pack
ing-houses, it is already seeded, purified, and in one
pound packages ready for the table or the kitchen
alike. It is better than candy, over fifty per cent
sugar, and wholesome.
For the first time in the country’s history we
have had all over the United States, on April 30,
Raisin Day. when every one in the cauntry was asked
to eat raisins, from the President down. The big
gest advertising scheme ever attempted to make
known the merits of an article of food was car
ried on. Railroads and steamboat companies,
hotels, newspapers, public schools, and individuals
alike, were asked to push this day, for the laudable
purpose of putting squarely before all America that
we have in this fruit of the vine something better
than wine or bread, nature’s own perfect food. The
middlemen and jobbers have been so discriminating
against our goods that a large part of last year’s
crop is left on hand with the grocers, unsold, but
stored safely for the spring demand; which now
promises to be a heavy one, for every g’roceryman
in the United States ought to increase his stock
no account of “Raisin Day.” And as the Li
quor Trust has planned to boycott our country’s
products on account of our vote this week we ap
peal to the Christian and temperance people of the
nation to help create a demand for raisins, that we
may raise and sell more raisins and less wine, more
food and less h— for the country.
Every incorporated city but one in Fresno county
has now voted out the saloon, Selma, Kingsburg,
Fowler and Fresno; only Coalinga stays wet.
ARTHUR POLK BROWN,
Pastor First Baptist Church.
Fresno, Cal.
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One of the kids told us this morning that his
sister had a beau Sunday night and that he knew
his name all right. It was “George Don’t.” The
kid said he 'heard his sister call that ia< dozen
times.
A bad small boy crawled under the bed when
his mother wanted to punish him. She couldn’t get
him out, and she left him there until his father
returned that evening from the city. When the
father came and 'was told about the ease, he started
to crawl under the bed to bring forth his disobedient
son, but was almost paralyzed when the little fellow
asked: “Hello, is she after you too?”—'Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
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