Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — Thinks Aged Must Deserve Respect [ARTICLE]

Thinks Aged Must Deserve Respect

Many people tell you that you must be respectful to older people, quite leaving out of the question whether or not they’re worthy of respect I’vo known some of the most obstinate, bad-manpered, unkind, unjust old people, whose faults were borne in aliened

because they were old. I’ve known a grandmother who would actually bribe her grandchildren to disobey their mother, her daughter-in-law. I've known an old man who by his unceasing bullying and heckling actually broke down the health of his son. wbo was carrying a heavy burden of care, but who might still be a well man if his father had not literally worried him into sickness. In both these cases I hold that-the respect of the daugh-ter-in-law and the son were misplaced, and that the old folks should not have been allowed to subject their kin to such ill treatment Just being old is no guarantee of qualities worthy of respect.—Woman’s Home Companion.