Is It Worth While, After All?
“BRAIN fever at twelve—and we are left alone.” “We pushed her, and God knows how we have suffered for our mistake.” “She was graduated, but she never recovered, and in two years we had no daughter.” “I thought more of a diploma than I did of my child. Now I have only the diploma.” “Everything that love and skill could suggest was done. But our eyes were opened too late.” “‘Promotion! Promotion!’ was our cry. Then our little girl was promoted. But not in the way we hoped.” “We placed an education above health, and the life of a promising boy of eighteen is the price which we paid for our mistake.” “It was music and painting added to a tired brain. Now our house is still—a monument to our thoughtlessness.” “What would not my husband and I give of our means to-day if we could undo the past and bring back our only child! That is the hardest part to bear—the feeling of what we might have done. From the housetops would we cry out to parents to take care!”—Nine American Parents, in the Ladies’ Home Journal.