Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — DOWNFALL OF FATHER. [ARTICLE]

DOWNFALL OF FATHER.

The Uplift Movement For the “Old Man” Is Having a Hard Time. The whole trouble was that it was too good to fast. From the Very moment that the movement for the uplift of father started it was certain that the pendulum would swing backward and very prvbaV.y hit him in the eye. Th mother movement was based on a firm f nindation arid will alway- go oil. but as soon as the exploiting ■of father started his complete downfall' was assured. Father has always been the “goat." It was always father who held the family from the achievement of its social ambitions. It was father who mane blunder- that put the family to -name Father never would take to the new-fashioned ideas. He was against the domination by the younger generation, against suf frage. against women's clubs, against the teaching of French iu the children : in a word a natural reactionary. It was but natural, therefore, that father should her c•-me generally known as a back number useful -only in bringing borne money and writing checks. Then started the father craze. It began with paragraphs in the newspapers. "Why not give the fathers a boost ?" and latei on it graduated in the -- >ng, “What's the Matter With Father?" the answer being "He’- all right!" From all sides father was receiving what he considered his well-earned praise. H was being lauded to the exclusion of mother, sifter, baby brother and the cook. 1 It was too good to last. It : simply turned father’s heaa. ! One of the species, W. D. Boyce, a millionaire publisher of Chicago. became so ecstatic that he announced that he was going to marry a beautiful young girl. : Legally he had a right to do so, las he was a widower. 'But the younger generation was growing | tired of this, father business Mr. I Boyce’s son heard about the proposed marriage of father and determined tp put a stop to it. He went home and trounced father. He was fined So in a magistrate’s yourt. Father married just the ’same, but the moral to others should be plain. Father is not to have everything his own way without a struggle from the younger generation. Father is riding for a fall.-+-Washington Post.