The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
Crude Thoughts as They Fall from
the Editorial Pen.
"A column dedicated to tired moth
ers as they join the Home Circle at
evening tide.
More se7erlng CT tend<r cords and
more wounds that never heal, result
from the mothers death than from
any other event that can take place
in any home.
A well ordered home, where the
personal rights Of the members OF the
household are observed, well governed
children, Christian home-this is
type OF Heaven.
More hearts pine away In secret an
guish, for the want Of kindness from
those who should be their comforteIs
than from any other calamity IN lie.
A word Of kindness is a seed which
when dropped by chance springs up
flower.
There is true enjoyment in that
friendship which has its source in the
innocence and upr,ghtness Of a true
heart. A sympathlzing heart hnds
an echo in s. mpathizing to.cms that
bring back cheering music to the
spirit Of the loyeliest. Be all honor
to true friendship and may it gather
vet more fragrant blossoms from the
dew-bathed meadows Of social inter-
course, to spread along the toil-Worn
road of life.
~
With all the marvellous drapery in
thought, poetry and song, the worth
of mother love has never been told.
After the zenith of physical capacity
has been reached we hold onto the
shattered body with miser grasp.
When mother comes how we love to
prepare the place for her, giving her
the easiest chair, how we love to make
the way pleasant before her aged feet.
The little children lay the first violets
Of spring in the withered hands, their
compensation being a loving smile.
Some hearts never grow old and like
wax they are easily impressed. A look
of appreciation OF Toying word IS
worth more than rubies.
~
As this is leap year it may be time
ly to give few hints to the young
men. We have known young men to
meet a pretty face in ballroom, fall
in love with it, marrieS it, goes to
housekeeping with it and boasts OF
having a home and wife to grace it.
The chances are he has neither. He
has been taken in." Her pretty face
gets to be an old story, or becomes
faded and as the face was ali he paid
attention to, all be swore to honor,
love and protect, he Is sick Of his bar
gain. Another young man becomes en-
amored Of q fortune. He waits upon 1t
to parties and balls, weds it and calls
it wife, carries it home, introduces it
to his friends and says he is married
and has home. he is not married.
He has no home and soon finds it cut.
ia young man would escape these
consequences let him shun the rocks
upon which so many have maze ship
wreck. Let him learn to look into the
mind and heart of the woman be
thinks Of marrying.
We have just been thinking about
present day hobbies and they create
within US a longing for the return OF
the good Old days Of our forefather';
DAYS when callous.d hands warmly
clasped each other and kid gloves were
unknown; days when at eVentide the
family gathered at the old place and
enjoyed the pleasures Of home. How
different now. Take the average
family today and the servant girl is
usually the only one at home after the
evening meal. The father has gone
to lodge, the mother to her club,
Jane to the music circle, Kate to the
card party, Robert has gone down
town for game Of billiards, Peter to
the reading room. If We drop into a
strictly religious home, where each
member Of the family has been
taught to fear God and keep His COM
mandments, a knock at the door
brings only the servant, who tells US
the family is all absent. The father
has gone to Prayer meeting, the
mother to drill some young ladies for
church concert, Thomas to meet
ing of the Epworth League, Harry to
the Junior Endeavor, Mary to the
Young Peoples meeting and Sarah to
the choir practice. These are the
most worthy places for members Of
family to be, but even the most
wothy societies that take the family
from home two thirds Of the evenings
of the week do not build up that solid
Christian character that is formed
around the old fireplace at home.
Unless in these matters, we return to
the good old days of our fathers and
parents and children are educated to
enjoy home and made to realize that
there is no place like Home, Sweet
Home" we can expect many to fall
by the wayside and our daughters and
brightest boys be ruined at the very
thresh-hold Of life.