Article April 29, 1905 Issue

Don't sympathize too much with the little foolish pains...

L. M. Powers

Don't sympathize too much with the little foolish pains and troubles of your children; teach them to endure, to be brave, to ignore the little things. Sympathy has been overdone. Hundreds of people are kept half invalids by over petting. I know of good women who are wearing out better husbands by demanding constant sympathy for imaginary ills. A woman who had been dying for twenty years, because she had nothing better to do, for the fortieth time called her husband to her bedside to make him promise to be true to her memory after she was gone. Tried human nature for once rebelled. Instead of promising as she wished he told her that just as soon as possible after a reasonable time for mourning had elapsed he proposed to marry again. The woman got well. — Rev. L. M. Powers.

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