Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-02-06

Among the most beautiful plCtuioo
ever presented to ones view is that OF
home, we'll regulated and kept with
an eye to the comfort, pleasure, profit
and advancement of all the family
There we find love and joy and peace,
unity and almost perfection itself.
Each member of such a family early
learns that the path to duty is the one
to happiness, and from the tiny little
toddler who can only ''bring papa his
slippers" or smile away the lines OF
care from mama's anxious face, to the
well grown daughter or the merry
hearted school boy there is an indie
scribable pleasure in feeling that each
one can do something to keep that lit
tie home bright and happy. They are
all interested as it were, stockholders
in the home Each one feels special
pride that he has share in this happi-
ness, and every day finds each child
doing something that is actually nee
essary to keep the business of home
making up to the high standard that
their hearts have set. Then how easy
it is-all working to a common end;
full of interest and earnestness, to
make and keep the home beautiful!
Such home will not stand in a COM
munity unknown and unnoticed, but
it's influence will be felt far and wide
and many benefits will be derived by
others, who, from the outside, see the
beauty and happiness of activity and
right living in that home.
Sisters of the w. c.. T. U. of Missis
sippi, can we not come together in the
beautiful dawn of this new year and,
forming ourselves into one earnest
family, walk into the open portals of
the w. G. T. U. Department of the
MISSISSIPPI LEADER and say we are all
stockholders in the business of max
ing and keeping this Woman's Chris
tian Temperance work up to the high
standard our hearts would set for it?
1t is indeed the nearest thing to home
we, as temperance family in the State,
can claim. Will we not go in and pos
sess it as we ought? What are our
members waiting for? Surely not for
the editor of that department to invite
you to the work. 1t is already yOur
,rork. She is simply your servant, try
ing to furnish food enough to keep the
family from starving; but we need
something more than this-we need
something to build us up and make us
strong for the work. Let the children
of this great family awake and realize
that there is duty to perform and it
is your duty and not your sisters or
your brothers.. No one can do yOaT
work for you. If goa leave it undone,
so it will go and we will suffer for your
neglect. If you say you are not able
to move the hearts of men and make
them feel the power of your eloquence
by mighty appeals to them through
your pen, perhaps you are right; but
can't you toddle out to somebody's
papa with his slippers and persuade
him it is better to stay at home by a
bright warm fire tonight than go out
to stimulate himself at the saloon?
Can't you do that much? Try it and
see, please-we need help from each
and every one who wears the white
ribbon in Mississippi if we keep our
beloved Union together as we ought.
Do let us unite our efforts this year
and see what an influence will go out
for good through the State, brighten
ing homes and strengthening the tenn
perance cause everywhere.
1t is not long before our State Con
vention will meet. Let us all work as
we have never done before to carry re-
ports to that convention that will glad
den our loved Presidents heart and
cheer her in her arduous labor.