The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-23
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A sensible TALK with Women by One Who
Knows Thsnh


A Sensible Talk with Women by One VINO
Knows Thsn-
don't like the word policy. me
moment, Won tell me that honesty Is
the best policy am antagonized and
almost prefer dishonesty. II you say
to me it is polite 70 be sweet hammered
| find myself stunning the appearance
| Of hypocrisy which nmiability@of that
sort too closely resembles Tell me To
Ne rood for the sake Of being good,
and Twill try right hard 70 behave
myself. but feline to be good because
somebody iswntchingme and II will
be to MY advantage 70 make a
good impressions, and Ishall, ten to
I one. disgrace MY lineage. The fact is
that I'VE tuild lib character altogether
too much after tile fashion of q farmer
who should plant his crops to please
Ineirhbors, without consulting his own
predilections or preiudices. II VIII
raise buclswhcat, not because like
bucilvheat cakes, but because John
smith does, and / might drive better
! bargain with John Smith some day
should lie chance TO drop in and eat a
hot buttsrei cake with me-" Is no
more senseles mode of procedure than
IL is for me 10 be houost and upright
tor no higher reason than becaus" l
shall hare a better standing in the
community with that reputation Tackled
to me.
BE good, be true, be pure. for your
owa sake aud for the sake of that COM
pansuu YOU are going to spend eternity
vfth--yonr Own self
am not an old woman, aud yet
have lived long enough to see the al
most utter dccadence Of some old"
fashioned virtues. Take p0liteneSs,
for instance-simple, old-faShloned
polfteRess. that sprung from the heart
like q rose from the root How littlo
we see OF IL nowadays. We see great
deal of what roa call company manners,
learned from a book of etiquette, per-
haPs, but the kindly spirit that seeks
20 make things pleasant for the hum
bIes1 stranger, as we'll as for thc
gfzase who comes in the van Of
trgr1- vt.1y herald, is growing rarer
3acT year. What Il it does cost Il little
tFUubls to answer Il question nr drop
yU1r task TO direct stranger: what i
the Use Of being in the world at all IL
not to lend helping hand where we
can and make folks happy. The rour-
tesy that i only shown to people we
know All can respond perhaps in kind.
j. y spurious courtesy, as different
from old time politencSs as n ri tx made
Of muslin 10 - sweet carnmtion that
4 I.
Let Us give over clubs for awhile,
and start n training school for mothers.
We 90 not need anythins SD much in
the world as gn,d m theirs. A. we'll
expect the houseiSeeprr to turn nut
batch OF good cookies, il she makes
them of sawdust and alum, as to en-
pect the children to develop into good
citizens without the right sort of
mothers. The right sort OF mother
knows where her boy is all day long.
She spends her time entertaining him
rather than entertaining shallow
headed callers from everlasting 10
everlasting. She tells him stories,
reads to him. and picks ont tunes
with him on the piano. She is ''chum.
my" with him, too. and has his COM
pIete confidence. She doesn't allow
her girls To 20 to the depot to see the
trains come in, nor does she permit
them to. spend nights away from the
guardianship OF their own home. Sne
Is watchful at the same time that she
Is kind, loving always, but never
languid in the performance of those
duties which the vast responsibility of
motherhood has laid upon her Give
us better mothers. and the world win
soon DE full of better men and women.
Amber, in Chicago Times-Herald