The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-05-12
Around the Home Circle

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Let us strive to cultivate spirit OF
hopefulness in the home, in the office,
on the street. We can do no greater
service to humanity than to live and
work always with q great hope,
which, in the very nature Of things
Will grow more and more into great
certainty.
We see some families where each
has a part to perform, where the
daughters relieve the mother of many
household duties, and the division of
work makes it easier; while in others
the mother is a slave and the
daughters act as if they are boarders.
Why this difference? Who is to
blame? Children who are taught to
work and bear their share of the bur-
deus love and respect their parents far
more than others, for it is fact that
people have very little respect for a
slave, though he or she be parent.
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My son, follow not in the footsteps
of the loafer, and make no example Of
him who is born tired, for verify I say
unto you, their business is overstock-
ed; the seats on the corners are all
taken and whiting places are all
occupied. 1t is better to saw wood at
two bits a cord than to whittle in q
loafing match and cuss the govern
ment. My son while thou hast left
in thy skull the sense of a jaybird,
break away from the cigarette habit,
for 10, thy breath stinketh like a glue
factory and thy whole appearance is
less intelligent than store dummy !;
yea, thou art clipper with the rim
knocked off.
Young man, there is one thing you
cannot do. You cannot make q sue.
cess in life unless you work. Older
men than you have tried it and fail
ed. You cannot loaf around the street
corner, smoke, tell stories, and sponge
on someone else, without making a
failure in life. You must learn a
trade or get into some honest BUSINESS.
If you don't you will become a
chronic loafer and there is no place
in the world for loafers. The ripe
fruit is at the top Of the tree and you
must climb if you get it, or some
smart man will pluck il from you.
Do something no matter how small or
how low the wages, it will be start
er. Help yourself and others will
help you. There is no royal road to
success; will, grit and endurance are
the qualities which lead to it.
Somewhere in the great vineyard
there is niche for everyone to fill,
il not garden or field--a space is
allotted for all to work in. ''This
is the way, walk ye in it, is not
always a pleasant command, but
duty will lead us. It may be into
dismal novels of want and suffer
ings, even to the drunkard's misera-
BILE home, where the heartbroken
wife and mother tolls to supply the
waste made by ths debauohed spend
thrift to crafty an unnatural ap-
petite. God pity a ,drunkard's wife
and children. 1t seems that moth
ing can destroy this. What can be
done to throw bar in it's pathway 2
What shall we do to stay the tide of
intemperance sweeping over our land
and save our noble boys Efrom being
swept away in it's malestrom OF
ruin?
Francis E. Willard tells us to-
Write it on the work house gate,
Write it on the school boys slate,
Write it on the copyboo
That the young may often look,
Where there's drink there's danger.
But, alas we often wait till life {
sweet opportunities are past, and at
the eleventh hour break our alabaste1
box of ointment.
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The easiest thing in the world il
to find fault in others, but how diff
cult to see our own. Let us be char.
liable along this line, and do as q
great artist did, who painted picture
of his King, upon whose brow was a
scar, painting it with his hand cover
ing the scar. Let our mantle of
charity be sufficient for others, as
we'll as ourselves. A gentle word OF
tone, even q friendly glance may
touch or soften some sad heart.
Sympathy is q great medicine. 1t
often healsSaa broken heart. It has
gained an entrance where gold has
failed. We can do much to gladden.
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