Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1905-02-24
Home, Sweet Home.
For the Graphic.

shut up your house lest the warm rays
of the sun should fade the carpet, and
your heart, lest hearty laugh should
shake down some of the musty cob
webs or shock the sanctimonius passer-
by that never smiles. 1t is an old adage
and one worthy to be remembered by
parents: II you would ruin your boys
let them think and feel that all mirth
and social enjoyment, the natural food
and stimulant for mental and physical
development, must be left cut on the
threshold when they enter the home,
only to find all dark and souless, where
naugh; but silence reigns; and the boy
like the Gagged bird looses his ideal love
for the parental roof and instinctively
seeks associations that result in his
final ruin. Let every chamber be filled
with the sweet radiance of hope, cheer
fulness and love for every member of
the household; and the son feel the
inspiring glow of the bright ireside
and sunshine of the parental home that
comes from hearts filed with love and
smiles, to be found no where else on
earth, as in the sanctum of the well re-
gulated parental home, whether in the
howell or gilded palace; one that bears
the nearest affinity to and beautifully
symboizes TIE home eternal when these
earthly homes are destroyed by time.
When once the home is regarded as
only the place to eat, drink and sleep
the work is begun in the life character
of the son. as n rule, that ends in the
gambling house, the infatuatng bowl,
cesspools Of vice, degradation and ire
lreivable ruin that has wrung rivers of
tears from broken hearts made desolate,
the home wrecked noble manhood, and
hlighted the future hopes of parents
who looked forward with sweetest an
ticipation when they, in declining years,
could lean upon the strong arm of duti-
ful son for strength and support" 1t
is a truism that you cannot put old
heads upon young shoulders, nor young
heads upon old shoulders Hence
I, young people must have mirthful re-
laxtion and recreation somewhere, and
If they don't find it at their own
hearth-stones 1t will be sought else
ghere. Therefore, let the fires ever
burn brightly at home, ever delightful
with harmless amusements that parents
80 well understand, laying deep the
foundation IN the life character of the
child, that the sanctity of the home
building of character and destiny of
true manhood, rests upon that first
great fundamental principle implanted
belief in God and love and venera-
tion for his Holy word and its sublime
teaching remembering their Creator
in the days of their youth while the evil
days come not nor the years draw nigh
when they shall say, have no pleasure
in them," Fee. l2:l.
But while we would impress this first
great duty of parent to child it does
not follow. for the reasons we have
pointed ou', that we should repress the
bouyant spirit of merriment around the
freside and social circle of home that
blots out the remembrance of many a
care and annoyance during the day.
This does not impair the obligation the
parent is under to the child, or imply
that the parent should install in the
home, either by precept or our own
example. his satanic majesty's pictorial
1 decalogue Of fifty-two pages found in
every deck, in order that we make the
, home circle attractive at the expense Of
character, by teaching and instilling in
to the mind and life a knowledge of the
mystic arts its decalogue teaches; the
devils key that unlocks the door to ruin
, and paves the way to destruction,
, claiming its millions of victims annually
, from the ranks of noblest manhood.
, II this obligation rests upon the parent
toward the child, to guard against the
seductive influence this has over the
home, how can professed christians
furnish stumbling blocks over which 9TH
ers may stumble and fall forever? This
is a serious thought and furnishes food
) for reflection for every professed chris
tian who by their own example try to
make satan's decalogue respectable.