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f THURSDAY. JUKE It. 1914.
: Another Wife Killed By
h Whisky, in the Name of
the People of Michigan.
Cy * ■ .
£3 Wb had another killing in Detroit
Hwafldfty night.
II William Sampeer. No. 197 Casper-ave.,
Wm the man who did the killing,
lb Hit wife was the victim.
\ A neighbor, a woman friend of Mrs.
iJhanpeer, saw the crime committed.
| Looking out of her window, she saw
fampeer attack his wife.
&£ Gripping in his right hand his pocket
fcaifa, he forced the helpless woman
pfaiast the fence and held her there.
Mrs. Sampeer struggled in vain to free
L With the knife Sampeer began hacking
«t her throat.
He cut her again and again—cut an
' agiy gash every time he stabbed at the
Wnan’s throat, and drew the knife along
through the neck.
Before anyone could interfere, the
mnan had dropped to the ground and
lag there, bleeding to death.
Sampeer, still grasping the bloody im
jdtmfint of death, hacked then at his
•am throat, endeavoring to kill himself.
| Attempting to flee, he sank to his
Miifla on the spot where the police found
they sent him to a hospital.
: He may not recover.
The tragedy had long been expected
by the neighbors.
Mrs. Sampeer’s life was miserable.
Her husband abused her shamefully.
$ The neighbors had known him to drive
JkKJblto the street, scantily clad, in the
Asad of winter.
Upon these occasions, Sampeer was
DRUNK.
r Upon all occasions when he abused the
i poor woman who had the misfortune to
become his wife, Sampeer was DRUNK.
When he drew his pocket knife and
*■ thihtd his wife in the throat until she
fail bleeding to death, he was DRUNK.
Just another wife killed by WHISKY,
the •tuff the state licenses the sale of,
nd the stuff saloonkeepers sell for
PROFIT.
■■■
* This was a licensed murder.
Murder licensed by the people of jthe
gnat state of Michigan,
ft The people of Michigan permit the
manufacture, the sale and the drinking
! Os Intoxicating liquors in consideration
—flf a certain sum paid the state.
The people of Michigan permit the
manufacture, sale and drinking of intox
icating liquors for a BRIBE.
Tha people of the state of Michigan,
m May 1, the regular time of the year
for the payment of the bribe, contracted
With the saloonkeeper who sold Sampeer
Whisky, for the murder of Mrs. Sam
pter.
The people did their part when they
laid to the saloonkeeper:
TOR A CERTAIN SUM IN HAND
•PAID. WE HEREBY GRANT YOU
, THE RIGHT TO SELL WILLIAM
tAMPEER WHISKY. THAT HE MAY
DRINK WHISKY UNTIL REASON
TAKES ITS FLIGHT, AND UNTIL
» ffffc BEAST ANT) SAVAGE IN HIM
tRNALL RISE UP AND COMMAND
TO HACK WITH A KNIFE AT
.IDS WIFE’S THROAT UNTIL SHE IS
* tiffin 99
And to this the people of the state of
Michigan attach the words:
OURJHAND AND SEAL.”
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Tha masting of the justice and the
HHMaI stems to have been most harmoni
f/km &fffow>Tar, one account of it says
SffA|Ml|baP-Asok a chance on the box of
We Have a Picture of
Abraham Lincoln in
Front of This Picture
One has to wonder whether we have a
right to credit Abraham Lincoln with
actions and thoughts which would prob
ably never have been his, in order to in
cite the youth of this city to enlist in the
army and fan the war spirit, already too
tinder like, into flame.
We also wonder what the revered pres
ident would think about the “likeness" of
himself, painted by a lightning artist in
lurid colors, on the plate glass window of
a Grand River avenue store.
It looks as if three balls should have
formed a halo over it* head and a miscel
laneous assortment of junk should have
reposed beneath.
Is not this sort of thing a little prema
ture, and would Abraham Lincoln have
approved of our present action?
It was with the greatest reluctance
that he consented to the civil war. when
this country was threatened with dis
memberment and so great a moral issue
as human slavery was at stake.
Would he, then, sanction a war with a
half starved, rebellion ridden country,
weakened by four years of fighting?
Would he not, rather, manage to pro
tect the border, let the American capital
ists in Mexico take their own medicine,
and refuse to sacrifice innumerable
American lives and add to the misery of
an already misery-laden people?
Would he have considered it good pol
icy to send an army in pursuit of one
bandit and. when the bandit could not be
produced, refuse to withdraw his troops
at the demand of the people of that coun
try?
We are in need of his cool head and
magnanimous heart these days, and we
believe that his common sense would
suggest, with dry good humor, that his
“portrait” be removed forthwith from
the aforesaid window.
Recognition Is Paid
Decent Newspapers
By Wm. H. Ingersoll
•
The Detroit Time* is proud to be in
cluded among the newspapers selected
for the careful placing of the William H.
Ingersoll advertising, reported to the
meeting of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of America, in Philadelphia. The
following is clipped from a report of the
meeting:
The work of the "truth movement" w«* the
subject of the address of Merle E Stdener, of In
dianapolis. chairman of the National Vig-lance
Committee, which wt* <rraniz-d for the elimina
tion of fraudulent advertising matter. This In
teresting and very effective campaign wii de
acribed ah follow*:
“Confidence In advertising la quoted above par
“If it were possible for the truth movement to
cloae Its book* and submit a report In figure* to
thl* convention. It would show a net gain for the
yeai that would be startling
“Every class of hw*in»»* ha* shared In th*
dividends and the general business world ha*
benefited definitely be. ause <-f the enlarged dis
tribution of confidence
“At the headquarter* office of the Associated
Advertising Ciuh* in Indianapolis a high-pressure
sales manager has been on the Job. developing
every possible avenue for creating maximum pub
lic confidence In advertising This man is M J
Kenner, secretary of the National Vigilance com
mittee He was employed last Nugust to give hi*
entire time and energy to this w> rk
“Individual national advertisers have contribut
ed materially to th- movement during the last
ye«r by asserting their right to have the tr ad
vertising associate only with good company. A
number of th»*e concerns have been Insisting that
the mediums separate the good and the had ad
vertising realizing that wh-n the medium create*
a red light district' and rlgld’r comp*:* the ques
tionable advertisement to remain In the segre.
gated space it wti; result In the disappearance of
that type of advertising For. paradoxical «, |.
may seem there w< u'd be no had advertising If
there were no good advertising The had must
associate with the good In order to have (ny
standing with the public
“It remained for Robert H Inr»r*o|J A Brother
to take the most advanced step of the v *«r When
this company bojght space for it* latest n*we"
paper campaign. William H Inz.rir ;; directed
the advertising departm-nt to dis-rlm. nate | r
(•7?, r of artu * *> cl *‘« n rar*rs The Nations
Mgilance committee Ml ca'led upo n
the selection of the publications tv a t conld «., a |,f r
under the Ingersoll standard*, and as a result thl
W *K?, h ,V nd ,t- v whr '" '•">'»* appealed
to the public through t:,o** medium* which have
th w. w lth their readers—th- rar-’«
~ hl r^r n ' rr th *} T ***:^ U m„* a* w*"
as their n*ws rolumns
From Another Point ot View
By C. T. S.
As we understand the situation, the
members of our state militia are in a
heroic mood, but their stomachs are not
♦ • •
There approaches a man aged and
gray, bending over a cane.
As he comes nearer we note that he
wears a badge.
We can now read the badge.
He is a member of the Grand Amy of
the Republic.
He has called to tell us that he was
with Sherman on the march to the sea.
He says he recalls distinctly that on
that memorable hike, three times a day
they did not have peach shortcake and
ice cream.
• • •
There'* still a chance
Some day you'll see
That wheexe that* due
From P. J. C.
ass
Wouldn’t it be a pretty note if, after
the state soldiers are on their way to the
border, it should be discovered they had
failed to pack the finger bowls.
* * *
Our old friend Doc. well-known and
popular chiropodist, says he has had to
conclude finally that there is a saloon in
Vtrdun.
DETROIT TIMES
Our Boyhood Ambitions.
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John p, Rocke FEuew. amp »m "tic.
5W »MM IMG- Amp AdARE TVI6M take HIM in PART
MFRSH4P \A/»'TH THCAd BEFORE H€ GAVE THEM BACK
their- Clothes
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(CepvT* i*t». bv H. T WrtsrtJ b*
Lloyd George as the
Handy Man of Britain
If it were done when ‘tls done, th-n
't were well
It were done quickly—Macbeth.
Llojrd-George is an admirable
statestuan —an active, progressive,
frank. full blooded. horae sensed
man His words ring true His
acts are decisive, and invariably
they “bring home the bacon." I'n
like the bulk of English politicians,
he is able enough to make up hlx
own mind and courageous enough
to make his moves without continu
ally angling for votes. He Is exact
ly the opposite of the canting, mud
dling. "pinhead - * sort of high offi
cial which has cost the British
cause so much suffering and loss in
men. treasure and prestige.
Though the mighty little Welsh
man Is still the most hated and be
loved man In Britain, he is as much
the handy man of the coalition gov
BE WORTH WHILE.
■Y H. ADDINGTON BRUCI
Author of '“Thw RI44U of Personality“ Psychology and Parenthood.** etc.
One of the chief ends of man la
to work, and to work at something
which In some way render* real ser
vice to other men Thia 1* altruism
every one of us ought to take to
heart.
W> ought to feel that, unless 111
or decrepit from age. to be a volun
tary Idler Is a disgraceful thing.
We ought to have the amblUnn to
make ourselves worth while by
working, and working hard, at some
useful occupation.
Yet many of us are quite content
to Idle- —are quite content to lead
an existence which, when candidly
analysed, must he stigmatised as
worthies*.
The other evening I noticed in a
newspaper the announcement of a
marriage B-rammrn*. The pet*l**
concerned were evidently of some
social prominence, for the engage
ment was featured on the front
page, and considerable family his
tory was given.
Os the prospective bridegroom it
was said he was the son of Mr. and
Mrs So-and-So, w*e the grandson
of Gen. Blank, and van connected
with the family of Thi« and-That.
It was added that, he had been
graduated from a well known east
ern college and w*« a member of
several expensive and "exclusive"
clubs, all of which were duly named
But not one word did the an
nouncement say about his being en
gaged In work of any kind Work
and this young man were seemingly
atrsngers to one another
Ido not envy him. I do not envy
any man whose only claim on the
attention of others is that he comes
of a distinguished family and can
boast club membership.
■Of course there Is nothing wrong
In belonging to a good club, or to
as many clubs as one ran afford.
Borne of the most useful men of my
acquaintance belong to a number of
clnhs.
Eut the point Is that they do some
thing In addition to belonging to
clubs. Their connection with clubs
Is a mere Incident In their lives
The great thin* Is that they have a
service-rendering occupation.
And any Ban who haa swrh aa
ocupatton. no matter what l» ts. t*
infinitely more worth while than
ernment as he was of the Liberal
ministry. When anything nas gone
intolerably wrong during the laM
10 years Mr IJoyd George has be*-n
sent for to put It in order, and his
odd job.-' have ranged from mend
ing a great railway strike and *ef.
tllng a miners* strike to organizing
the finances of the war and saving
thousands of British soldiers bv
filling the shortcomings and rectify
lng *he blunders of the war office in
the matter of shells, machine guns
and artillery "When In trouble,
send for I.loyd George. - " the minis
ter of "Wh*t needs most attending
to," Is a standing rule of the gov
ernment.
There was a hig attendance in
the house of commons when Premfer
Asquith, fresh from his tour of in
speefion of Ireland, was vainly ex-
the man who does nothing except
sign club check* and get his name
In the society columns of his local
newspaper*.
This latter type of man. when all
1* said and done, ready belongs to
the street-loafer class He may have
a college training, but like the
street loafer he is a cumberer of
the earth, a useleas parasite.
Every man who works Is superior
to any man who. from his own
choice, passe* hi* time In Idleness
Just remember this the next time
you are tempted to envy the fellow
who "does not have to work ”
Also remember, please, that vol
untary Idling carries with It some
pretty heavy penalties, whether the
Idler he rich or poor.
Your Idler la seldom happy, and
almost aa seldom healthy. He
knows what "nerves” are to an ex
tent undreamed by most of his
hustling, achieving, useful fellow be
ings
"Work.’' said Madame Schwet.
chine, "la really the thin* that
fatigue* us the least ”
And It 1s the thing that makes us
ready worth while.
The Keep Well Column
STREET ACCIDENTS
In this day of automobiles If Is cu
rlous how little attention Is paid by
health work era to
to -itfl
tlstlcs recently prepared by the pn
lice department, the total number of
street accidents In one year In New
York city waa 22* 40. which resulted
In deaths
Os the person* killed. RIO wer»
men and 149 women, or about three
and a half times as many men as
women Os these. 10* were children
under six years of age. and 111 were
between the ages of six and 1*
In the nonfat*! accident* the pro
—By Webster.
to uiifold some wondrous
I
plan for the regeneration of that un
I happy island In the peers’ i;»llery
: »*'rf I.ord Wimborne ilrish lord
lieutenant at the t!m*' of tne Sinn
Fein outbreak •. still in a state of
suspended animation; l>ord Mae
rv>nnHl. wnnder.ng whether Mr A«-
qir’h wo ild succeed where he and
Mr Wyndham had fatl-d. and I.ord
Brv< e ex < hjef sncx-Lary. lo whom
the Sinn F«iner* are indebted for
the repeal of the arms act Fvrn
Mr Rirrell. the late Irish *ecretary.
i crept in quietly to learn how hi*
chief had solved in nine dava the
problem that had so completely has
fled him for a< many years A vio
lent Irish debate on the old heroic
scale was expected with certainty
Poor thincs' In half an hour It
was all England's ar»ful dodg
er and master evader of a premier
had no panacea of his own to pre
scribe—he «imply announced tha*
Mr. Lloyd-fJeorge had been deputed
by the cabinet to confer with the
various Irish leaden.
Mis selection of the very efficient
minister of munitions wa« generally
approved, for anyone who knows
how to handle high explosives with
out causing premature explosion or
who can use a high temperature In
dealing wi»h refractory ores as the
said minister of munitions assured
ly does, is flt for the office of high
harmonious blark-mlth of Ireland
Only those who were so sanguine
as to expect prompt and wondrous
action from the premier's own hand
were disappointed. As an Irish
member expressed it:
“This has been the F>ickens of a
day We began with 'Great Egpec
'ations' and ended with our 'Mutual
Friend.”*—M Colegny, in the Cln
natl Enquirer.
His Dav Off.
The Rev Sibley wan absent from
hi* pulpit la«t week.
Our (rental pastor, the Rev. F I*
Sibley, presented re scribe with a
fln* rut nf m mkrjionrr Monday of
th'* weep Thank*, draron.—Rre.
ton tWIs i Banner.
"My frarhrr says It I* our con
science rha* »r|!* UN when we do
wrong.*' said little Dorothy.
"Weil, i don't rarr.'* rejoined her
• mall brother, "Just *o It don't, go
and blab what we do to mother.”
portion of men and women wa§ aim
liar to that Just noted, and there
were 2.301 children under *l* year*
and 5.085 between the age* of six
and 15 year>.
The rau*e* were a* follow*: Pa*
*enger automobile*, 4.855, electric
afreet car*, 3.025; fall* due to
cause* other than accident* caused
l»y vehicle*, .i.00f,; home drawn ve
hicle*, true k* or wagon*. 2.441, and
collision* of all kind*. 2.428 The
other cause* of accident* were com
paratlvely. small.
While the old popular Idea wa*
that racing ambulante* or Are en
gme* cfiu« 1 mom street accldenta.
a month > careful tabulation showed
that therr was only one ambulance
ao.rldent to every 5.042 run*, and on*
Are engine accident tn every 4,4*1
run*.
The Daily Reminder
TODAY’S AMXIVBRSARIK*
17*4 First negro church In \m**r-
Ira dedicated In Philadelphia
I*l* I'ope Plus VII leaned his
fen ioui edict egalnet all Utbtu so*
cm ties.
ISIS —Tenelon Iron bridge, believed
to be the first of Its kind Tn the fnlt*
ed Sfitee patented by Augustus ("an*
field of Pl*t In Meld N. J.
I*4, r A fire In the city if 0»'» bee,
the eecind within a month destroyed
1.3*5 houses
ttta—Zachary Taylor was commis
sioned a major general of the United
states army.
Us!—Henry Clay, famous i-tatea
men. died in Warhtngton. D C\ Horn
In .ianover county, Va . April 13. 177’.
l*t>7 -Gen W T Sherman author
ised Governor ("raw ford of Kansas to
• all out e volunteer battalion to pro
tect the frontier from Indians
1*73 —Foreign ministers were if
• eived In audience for the first time
by Ihe Kmperlor of Chins at Tekln
I**o—Annexation of Tahiti to
France
I*ll A great Inland lake suddenly
*id mysteriously appeared in the
lower part of the Colorado desert
I*<>4 "nan ' Emmett, famous mins
trel and author of “Dixie." died at
Mount Vernon. Ohio. Born there.
Oct :* im.
nit 1 CAR AGO TODAY IT THE
WAR.
Austro-German armies captured
Tomasiow In Southern Poland
Merlin reported five French attacks
near Verdun wete repu teed
German troops reached Kamionkiv.
twenty-five miles northeast of Um
be rg
Gei mans fiercely assailed Russian
army in Its new position along the
Mug River
TODAY’S RIRTHDAi I.
Prince Hanilo. heir apparent to the
throne of Montenegro, born at t'et
tinje. 4 .'> vests ago today
Gen Gforj* W Goethals. chief en
gineer in the building of the Panama
• 'anal and flist civil governor of the
Panama t'anal Zone, horn tn Brook
lyn. 5* years ago today
William E Borah. United States
r< nator from Idaho, born at Fairfield
I > ears ag<> toit)
George \V Stevens president of the
• 'hesapeake and Ohio Railway born
at Plica. 0.. tJS years ago today
James H Mays, representative in
Pi Ogress of the Second Utah district
horn in East Tennessee. 41 years ago
today.
Rt Rev. John B Morris. Catholic
bishop of Little Rock, horn st H»n
nersonv Ilia, Tenn . 50 year* ago to
day
t»r George F. Hale, director of the
Mount Wilson observatory at Pasa
dma. horn in Chicago. 4* years ago
today.
I*r William J Mayo, one of the
head* of the famous surgical clinic
a’ Rochester. Minn born at Le Sueur
Minn 7.5 years ago today
E J Watson, commissioner of agri
culture of South Carolina, horn In
Edgefield county. S. C. 47 years ago
today
Wilbert Robinson, manager of ih*
Brooklyn National league haaehall
team, horn at Hudson. Mass 33 years
ugo todav
Robert H Veach. left fielder of the
Detroit American league baseball
team b rn at St «'harlea. K y., 38
vears r.gu today
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A Poem a Day
I.ATR
My father brought somebody up.
To show u* all asleep.
They . sine *• softly «t# the watrs
As you could creep
They whispered In the doorway there
And looked at us a while,
T had my eye* shut up. hut I
Could feel him smile.
I shut my eye# up close, and lay
As still as I could keep.
Because I knew he wanted us
To..Ue asleep
—Josephine Preston Peabody.
Pointed Paragraphs
Never fool with a fool; ha may
fool you.
A short answer frequently help-*
to start something.
On his banding knees a man may
And baggy trousers.
Love makes a fool of many a man
who was considered wise
One way for a lawyer to rlae at
the bar Is to stand on a chair.
Some girls never find they have
hearts till after they are loat.
A nan may know what he ought
to do, yet be unable to And any one
who win do it.
An office holder should save some
money -but not enough to start an
Investigation
When it comes u> saving pennies
a woman will save a dollar before a
man baa saved 10 centa.
A gosling never attempts to teach
a goose, yet there are children who
imagine they are wiser than Ibeir
parents.
To Analyze Bite*.
Dr. Alvin W. Struse. of Phlladel
phla, ha* sailed for the orient to
"make a general survey and study
of tropical disease* and of snake
bite* and poison* In India.” for the
Rockefeller Institute of New York.
Hl* associate In the work will be
Dr Victor C. Helser. of the Philip
pine general hospital. His experl
ence cover* 25 year* tn hot climates.
He wa* on* of the founder* of th*
Philippine general hospital. His
Itinerary call* for sojourn* In the
Hawaiian Islands. India, the FIJI I*l
and*, the federal states, Australia
and the Island of Ceylon, the trip
to take not less than two years.
The Old Gardener Say*
That It Is a wise plan to use a
sharp knife rather than scissor*
when cutting flowers for house
decoration because the scissor*
hare a tendency to aqueese the
stem* so that they will take up
less water than they *hould And
It is best to make a slanting cut
with the knife. Os course there
1* no reason why scissor* should
not be uaed in removing the flow
ers from the plant* ts the stem*
*re afterwards cut again with a
knife, and so msny pretty gar
den scissors have been designed
for milady that It seem* a pity
ne» to nee them
THURSDAY* JUNE 29* 1916
Lfoyalty To the Public.
•V OR. PRANK CRANE
(Copyright. I#lß, by Frark Crane)
Loyal to the public.
At the present stage of evolution it
would seem to he about a hundred years
or so yet before any considerable num
ber of consciences progress to the point
where this phrase means anything.
The moral sense logins with the indi
vidual and advances toward the group.
Most of us understand minor loyalties.
It has some force, and wo catch the idea,
when one talks of being loyal to a wife,
to a friend, to a family, to an employer,
to the Free Masons, to the church, to
one’s native state, and to the father
land.
All these things are concrete. We can
grasp them. They are tangible ikons.
Poetry is made about them, and songs
are sung.
But just being loyal to “the people” is
at present pretty much of a joke.
To most of us the people do not exist.
It is a phrase. Our class exists, our na
tion, perhaps the white race. But there
are no insides to the word humanity. It
is a colored shell.
And yet the redemption of our com
mon life waits precisely upon this. We
are never going to get rid of the indecen
cies of politics, the graft and corruption
of civic life, until the “public” means
something solid and real enough to be a
lodestone to conscience.
There are too many men in public
career who would scorn to betray a
friend or swindle a neighbor or do any
thing to offend the old soldiers or the
hyphenated Americans, and who regard
a robbery of the people at large as a
commendable evidence of shrewdness.
The pork-barrel congressman who gets
a bill through to put up a $50,000 post
office building in his home town where
$5,000 would be too much, is given a
banquet when he gets home. He ought
to be sent to jail. He has not cheated
any one man; but he has cheated us
all. he has cheated the United States.
His conscience gives a very feeble tug
to the alderman who votes for a public
utility franchise that outrages nobody
but everybody. He wouldn’t rob a bank
nor bum a hay-rick, but he smilingly
robs the vague and nebulous public.
Democracy is rather a severe strain
on human nature. It is quite sure to
break down in so fax as conscience is
not democratized.
Loyalty to the public ought to he as
vigorous and recognized as loyalty to the
crown. But it isn’t.
The trouble with the doctrine of Jesus,
the reason why most people regard His
teachings as impossibly ideal, is that His
conscience was developed in advance of
His time, and of our time, for that mat
ter. With Him humanity was the thing.
More than any other being on earth
he had the human nerve. He was the
incarnation of Kant’s categorical impera
tive.
Nothing hut a sense of “loyalty to the
public” can make a statesman out of
a politician, can make a Christian out of
a churchman, can make a human being
out of a patriot, can make a great news
paper out of party or personl organ,
can make a gentleman out of a financier,
can make a man out of a bounder.
Soem day we will realize that ‘The
People” is God’s other name.
Our Neglected Boy Crop.
Somebody swiped Johnny's mitt today. Mayba
Ma said she didn't have any money for another.
So Johnny lay for Dad at the comer where th*
car stopa and demanded a sum sufficient to
meet hi* sad necessity.
Maybe Dad was feeling pretty tired of a good
many things, but chiefly of the high cost of
everything, and so he replied accordingly. Then
Johnny teased And w*s scolded. Or worse
And he will not csre whsf he does tomorrow,
If he can't have another catrher's mitt.
Poor Johnny* He belong* to the country'*
neglected boy crop.
And yet few persons look upon him as neg.
lected. His parent* are thrifty, temperate, con
scientious They see thst the boy ha* plenty
of food, baths snd clothe*.
They see that Johnny ha* pretty nearly every
thing he want* EXCEPT AMUSEMENT. They
leave Johnny to find that for himself.
But when he doe* find It, they call It mis
chief
Now If Johnny were a waif, somebody W’oultj
take great pains to see that he had his two
week* In the country, and that he was especially
provided with work and play enough to keep
hint out of mischief.
Bat Johnny’s parent* are Industrious —and Jus!
a little too busy to censor Johnny's entertain
ment. They are also provident—snd Just «
trifle too much interested In saving for the fu
lure to give the right kind of attention to tht
present
That Is why the boys In some of the mosl
respectable families turn out badly. Everybodj
is too busy to look after them. Money I* to<
preclou* to Rpend on them.
And the chances are that a few Quarter* In
reared over and over In hate. hall*, mitts ant
mask* would pay far greater dividends H
Johnny's charscter than many dollar* saved so
Johnny's bank account or college course.
NOT CtJSTOMARY.
He —Would your father and mother efrjaet |
they knew I had kilted you? p
She—They never havw —Life.