There are fewer things more important in the home than conversation.
Think of the good you can do in your home with your voice. You use it to
give pain, but the conversation in your home ought to be loving. In many
homes they have no conversation. There is no affectionate greeting in
the morning when the children start for school, no little kiss to linger
on their lips, and when they come home at noon, hungry, there is no kind
greeting. The old man never says a word unless he growls for you to pass
something, and so far as anyone would know, you would be in a deaf and
dumb asylum. No fireside chats with the children.
You are down at some fool club, some lodge; you are off to some literary
social, beer and wine-drinking hell, and you let your children go to the
devil. You turn them over to some nurse, whose only interest in the child
is so many dollars per week.