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ESTEXBraWSW?
times not so far back that we can
not easily recall them, and sigh over
the great change that has taken
place? Greed, money grabbing, seems
to have done away with honor and
principle. Parents are bringing up
their children with the idea im
pressed upon them from infancy that
money is the thing. “Make money,
my son; marry money, my daugh
ter!” This, whether outspoken or in
timated, is the staple of the teach
ing in many homes. It is told of an
old lady that, on sending her son out
in the world to earn his livelihood,
she said to him: “Remember, my
son, the thing for you to do is to
make money. Make money honestly,
if you can, my son; but if you can’t
make money honestly, my son, make
money.”
I am afraid a good many parents
give the same advice to their sons, if
not plainly, still by- implication and
example. It is enough to w r arp the
honest impulses of any boy to read of
the prevalence of fraud in high places.
They will reason with themselves, “If
all these big fellows get money in
fraudulent ways, why should not I,
a nobody, do the same? only I’ll be
shrewd enough not to get caught up
with.”
Parents should hold up to the ad
miration of their children those men
who prize character and principle
above gain; who sacrificed self in
terest, yes, life itself, to honor. Such
a man was Robert E. Lee, who turned
from the highest position in the
United States Army, offered him at
the outset of the war, because he pre
ferred to be loyal to his Southern peo
ple and his native state. And, after
the long war was over, when his
stately home and estates were con
fiscated and held by the United States
government and he and his family
were left destitute, this grand man
refused the gift of a beautiful home
offered him by his people, and re
peatedly refused large salaried posi
tions in Northern colleges, because he
was loyal to his people, and thought
he might do more good to stay among
them as president of a struggling Vir
ginia college, receiving a small sal
ary, which he firmly declined to have
increased, saying the institution could
not afford it. This was a man —made
in God’s image.
And another like him is our own
Dr. Broughton, who has more than
once refused to leave his Georgia peo
ple who love and trust him, though
tempted by a position in a big Lon
don church, with a salary far beyond
that he receives with us.
History gives record of a few splen
did instances where men laid down
their lives on the altar of honor, pa
triotism or religious conviction. The
civil war furnished some notable ex
amples of self-sacrifice for the sake of
truth and principle, none grander than
that of Sam Davis —the Tennessee
boy-martyr, whose young life was sac
rificed because he would not betray
one whom he had given his promise
to shield. This man was not a rel
ative—not even a friend or a compa
triot —yet young Davis said, again
and again, “I would die a hundred
deaths rather than betray him,” when.
he was tempted—the last time, as he
stood on the gallows—by the assur
ance of instant release and a pass to
his friends if he would speak but one
word —the name of the man who had
given him the information concern
ing the movements of the Federal
army. Calmly, quietly, without
bravado, the young hero refused the
repeated offers of the Federal com
mander —even with the rope about
his neck. So young, so brave and be
loved, was it not an act of supreme
heroism to die in his prime rather
than do a deed of dishonor?
Lack of loyalty, lack of fidelity to
obligations, is a notably evil sign of
our times. From this disregard of
honor, this absence of a high sense
of duty, proceeds the wholesale con
tempt for the marriage vows and the
increasing prevalence of divorce.
A change is greatly needed if we
would preserve our integrity as a
people. It should be felt as a supreme
duty by every parent to early incul
cate in his children the sacredness of
duty and obligation, the shame of dis
honor and disloyalty, and the su
periority of character to money or
position.
BEN R. IVY.
Ivy, Ala.
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BELVA LOCKWOOD AND THE
CHEROKEES.
Dear Household Friends: I have
not been in your pleasant company
since the days when our same dear
Mater gathered her family—Boo in
number —around the extension table
of the old Sunny South. But I have
been reading The Golden Age House
hold with pleasure, wishing constantly,
like Oliver Twist, for “more.”
A few weeks ago I had the pleas
ure of meeting the distinguished Mrs.
Belva Lockwood, Washington City’s
successful lawyer—the first woman
who was ever admitted to practice *
law in the United States. She was
here on behalf of the Cherokee In
dians, paying money to them and
their descendants, which our govern
ment promised to pay them seventy
five years ago, when it caused them
to give up their lands and their homes
and hunting grounds, and removed
them away to Indian Territory—now
the state of Oklahoma. The Indians
are her clients, and she made a splen
did fight for their rights before Con
gress and the Supreme Court. She
has paid many thousands of dollars to
the Cherokees and their descendants
in North Carolina and Georgia. In
four North Carolina towns she paid ,
out $200,000. She says there are now
about fifty women lawyers who are
registered as having a right to
appear before the Supreme Court,
where for a long time she was the
only woman who possessed that right.
She says that women have greatly
changed in their relation to the so
cial and industrial world since the old
days. We cannot but ask, is this a
part of the solution of the rapidly in
creasing rate of divorce suits?
Women, as God intended them, are
wives and mothers. Yet, in the al
tered condition of things, there are
many women who do not, or can not,
for different reasons, accept this mis
sion, and it is a blessing that they are
being trained to work out their indi
vidual problems in life. I am a bach
elor girl myself, and am preparing
myself for a profession. I don’t feel
like taking risks. I will wait a while,
make myself independent, so that I
can wait, and perhaps years of thought
and experience will give me riper
judgment about the choice of a hus
band. And if I don’t get a chance to
The Golden Age for June 23, 1910.
choose at all, why I shan’t break my
heart about it.
MARJORIE.
Dahlonega, Ga.
(May not this acquired independ
ence spoil what God meant should be
a clinging, helpful helpmate, a tender,
godly mother, the teacher of one of
His home-training schools for lives
that shall honor Him in that great
day of reckoning and rewards?
Let us ask ourselves the serious
question, from whence comes all this
unrest and independent dissatisfac
tion, if God, our Creator, instituted
the home, ordained the marriage vow,
and Himself became a little child? —
Mg. Ed.)
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ters’ ” cement thusly: Melt up 41-2
pounds rosin, 1 pound beeswax, and
stir in 3 pounds Venetian red; it will
hold gas in.
To keep polished steel from rusting
after cleaning and when not in use,
take a cloth with a very little sweet
oil on it, and wipe the articles over
so as to slightly, but evenly, oil the
surface.
Vinegar is better than ice for keep
ing fish. By putting a little vinegar
on the fish, it will keep perfectly
well, even in very hot weather. Fish
is often improved in flavor under this
treatment.
To keep postage stamps in the
pocket or memorandum book without
sticking, a New Orleans post-office
clerk advises people to rub the sticky
side over the hair two or three times.
The oil of the hair coats the mucil
age and prevents it from sticking.
To clean windows try baking soda
on a damp cloth. It is also said tq
be excellent to clean glassware.
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