Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1916 — Our Family History. [ARTICLE]

Our Family History.

Why does the ordinary family keep so poor a record, not of its own doings they are, for the most part, dull enough—but of it* own personalities? much further than “the probable life* time of our own children, and we dn not like to look even so far as that Surely It would give us a sense od space if we could see clearly a little further behind us. Moreover, to those we are engaged in the bringing up of their own children, a history of the family might furnish many a hint The chronic borrower has one re* deeming feature at least—he neve* strikes a man when he is down.