The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-01
GREAT OPENINGl
FREE TURTLE LUNCH !
GOOD MUsIC PROVIDED !

Tom would have gone there last
night, if he hadn't been persuaded
to stay at home. We had the best
features of that free lunch at your
house-the sociability, the free and
easy holiness, and the good music
sweeter by far than any that train
ed artists could have furnished, fol
it came from the sweet lips of our
own happy children.
You out-bid the saloon last night
Mrs. Brown, and yon do it all the
time; but let let me tell you sincere
ly and candidly, you have 3
great of reform before you.
Yes; yes, l know; you are good
moral woman, kind, careful moth.
er, and neat, thorough housekeep
er. But while you know how to
keep house you have to learn g
great deal in keeping home. You
have set up a certain methodical,
mathematical standard OF life and
you have been trying to make your
husband and children conform to it,
You have certain ideas of neatness
order and propriety, and you con-
tinually keep yourself and your
family in hot water because they
don't always keep themselves rang
ed, eyes right, as soldiers say, on
the straight line you have marked
OUT. You make the children toe
the mark; you take Tom to task
with a very free tongue for his
shortcomings until the poor fellow
goes to the saloon and gets a little
cold tonge for a change. Now ]
appreciate discipline and good
housekeeping qualities as much as
any one, but when they are carried
so far as TO destroy the peace and
comfort of home, why would rath-
er live in a log cabin and sleep eve
ry night in a hay NOW if in that log
cabin l found all the rest, the COM
fort and enjoyment of home.
Mrs. Brown, l was panied when l
saw last night the extraordinary
neatness of everything around your
place. Your parlor is evidently
kept entirely for company AS if
any company can be as good as
your family, Your children have
no books or innocent games to keep
their young active minds employed,
and playthings, l suppose, make
too much of a litter to be allowed
to disarrange your very correct sys-
TEN.
Well, Mrs. Brown, 1 do not wish
you to abate in the slightest degree
your ideas of neatness, but [ just
want you reconsider the fact that the
saloons are doing their best to fur
nish the attractions that your home
doesn't admit, and if the saloon
wins, who is to blame2
What shall you do, do you sayf
That is a hard matter to outline
in a single sentence; but in
the first place, take Tom and the
children, not as you would like
them, but as you find them, and
give them the pleasures that their
innocent natures crave.
Tom likes society; well, see that he
gets plenty of it. Invite the neigh
bors in, not to be bored by stiff
reception, but for a free-for-all So
cial enjoyment. Give more time
and tongue to the discoveries of
good traits in Toms character than
to bad ones. Persuade him to,get
an organ for your eldest girl and a
flute for Tom, jr. I saw the little
chap trying to make one one day
out a joint of alder; but he made a
litter on the floor, and you boxed
his ears and burnt up his work
how sorry felt for him-and 1 sup
pose you flattered yourself that you
we're giving him a lesson ia neat
less.
Going, are you, Mrs. Brown?
Veil, Just think little on what |
ave said. Study the methods of
he saloons in providing home at
ractions, and beat them at their |