PARENTAL PRIDE.

Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 11

PARENTAL PRIDE.

The man of middle age has come to know himself, and that is the first great necessity of successful living, writes "lan McLaren "in the ' Queen.' He knowa what he can do and what ha cannot do, and therefore is not intoxicated when he is praised, because this was his strong point, and every man surely has some strong point; and if he is not dashed when, he is censored, if a neighbor blames him, the chances are he is quite right, for thai; was his weak point, and every man is weak somex where. The fact is the man has no illusions. They have been dispelled as morning dreatns. The middle-aged man (or Iceman) lives not for hinisejf but for his

children. Ho does not care what men say about him, but he is desperately concerned about their judgment on, his sons If someone praises the boy, the father is lifted for days; if they run the boy "down, the father is cut to the heart. He boasts about his son's success, he tries to cover his eon's defeat; he would willingly pass cm his own gam to his boyj and! bear hi« boy's suffering. 5? has died to himself and is alive aga4n in his family, and if he is spared .to be a grandfather he grows preposterous in his pride over that child, and his admiration of all its doings.