The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-06
KEN0sHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, DFcEMBFR 6, 1877

one has written, "The sweetest words |
in our language are, heart, home, hap
piness, heaven; another writer. says:
"Homes are the roots Of national life" i
and also, ''there is nothing which gives
SO true type of life in heaven as q
true home" When DR.. Calvin Chaplin
was eighty years Of age che wrote Of
his wife," My domestic. enjoyments
have been perhaps as near perfection
as the human condition permits. She's
made my home to me the pleasantest
place on earth. And now that she is
gone, my worldly loss is perfect
What greater tribute could any man
pay to woman's work, than that home
was made by wife and mother the
"pleasantest place on earth? On TAX
ing up the Heather Women's Friend, "
one day [ was greatly impressed with
the beauty and Importance Of these
words - Sometimes we are sent to the
vineyard in which we are to work.
When we are not, the vineyard is al
ways sent to u.s." What q grand SER
mon for mother! [ had never before
looked upon my oeO72 home as the vine
yard in which I was to labor, but [
thought now, All yes! our homes are
our vineyards and here we can do our
Masters bidding. Mothers, your words
and actions at home, are guide to the
little ones whom God has entrusted to
your care. BY your every day exam
pie are their lives guaged. Are you
honest with them? Then, trusting you,
they learn to be what you are. Are
you deceiylng them all through their
young lives? If SO, in after years you
will surely reap your reward for what
you do, be it good or bad, does not es-
cape, even the notice Of babes.
Queen. Victoria's example as a moth
Ell is worthy of imitation. ''The arch
deacon of London ON one occasion was
chatechising the young prince, and be-
ing surprised at the accuracy Of their
answers, said to the youngest prince,
your governess deserves great credit
for instrueting you SO thoroughly in
the chatechism.' Upon which the royal
boy responded, @! but it is mamma
! who teaches us the chatechism.' Says
an observer of the Queens life, to be
good rather than TO be great-as the
would esteemeth greatness-seems to
have been, and to be the aim of victo-
ria's life, in public and in private. -
| We read, that, cher beautiful character,
which has since adorned her exalted
station, was apparent in it's first bud
dings in her childhood and youth. -
whatever we pray for or Go,
May our lives be one grand endeavor
To type the pure, the good, and the true.''
LET US BE A LITTLE MORE SOCIABLE.
Notwithstanding the mud and I'M
pleasant weather Of the past week,
nine members of the Auxiliary Of the
| Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Of Bristol, met at the house Of Mrs.
Blakeslee, last Friday afternoon. At
/ ter the opening exercises, appropriate
Iselections were read by Mrs. Parker,
Mrs. Gibbs, and Mrs Shepherd and an
essay by Mrs. Subway. After tea,
Miss Hattie Gibbs read a selection from
the Foreign Woman's Friend"; the
names Of all present were called and
responded to by sentiment; then there
was singing and conversation on Vari-
Gus topics which lasted an hour or more
in the evening. Altogether, we had q
very pleasant. sociable time. We be-
lieve it necessary for the Well-being Of
|neighborhoods, to occasionally meet
together and Try to cultivate kind and
friendly feelings towards each other.
A little more of the Golden Rule APP
piled here and there will vastly aid Us.
BY order Of the President.
In order to relieve their overWorked
clerks, the drug stores Of this city will