Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — FRICTION IN FAMILY IS FATAL [ARTICLE]

FRICTION IN FAMILY IS FATAL

Unpleasantness in Home Creates Intangible Impalpable Atmosphere, Driving Children Away. A few sarcastic words from the father, a sharp retort from the mother, that was all. But was it all? What about the effect upon Johnnie and Susie, sitting there quietly at their evening lessons?' 1 And did neither “parent notice that Thoipas slipped out of the house at the first intimation that there was to be a quarrel between father and mother? For quarrel it really was, although brief and clothed in the language of educated, respectable persons; and long after these harsh and unkind words had been spoken the atmosphere of the family living room remained charged with an emotional disturbance in which no one could concentrate his mind upon his reading or study. \ Family friction Is always fatal to happiness,\ says Mary A. Lasalle in Mother’s Magazine, and when there are children in the home it is almost sure to work Irreparable harm upon their minds and souls. One of the most powerful pauses of the exodus of young people from their homes at an y age when they are not

fitted to enter upon the work of life is friction in the family. Young people are by nature loyal to their parents and it is almost never that a young person will give as a reason for his leaving home the fact that his father and mother quarreled or nag at each other or do not agree upon pertain points. Friction in the home creates an intangible. ifhpalpable atmosphere in which the sensitive child chokes and pants for the free air of happiness, or Is warped and stunted mentally and morally.