Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-05-18
The Selfish Couple.


Seltishness Is the bane of all life.
10 cannot enter into life-individual.
family or social-without cursing Il.
Therefore. IL any married pair find
themselves inclined 10 confine shem-
selves 10 each others society, indis-
posed 10 60 abroad and mingle with
the life around them, disturbed and
irritated by the gathering offriends
In their own home, or In any way
moved to regard their social duties
MS disagreeable, lei them be alarmed
at once.
IL Is q bad symptom-an essential
ly morbid symptom. They should
institute means as once Cor removing
this feeling. and they can Only re-
move u BY persistently going into
society. persistently gathering il
into their own home and persistenly
endeavoring 10 learn to love and
feel an interest in all with whom
they meet. The process Of regener-
alton win not be tedious one. for
the rewards Of social life are imme-
diate.
The heart enlarges quickly with
the practice Of hospitality. The
sympathies run and take root from
point to point, each root throwing
up leaves and bearing flowers and
fruit like strawberry vines IL they
are only permitted to do so.
IL is only sympathies and straw.
berries that are cultivated in hills
that do otherwise. The human face
is thing that should be able 10
bring the heart into blossom with a
moments shining, and will be such
with If you will meet IL properly.
The penalties of family isolation
will not, unhappily. fall entirely
upon yourselves. They will be
visited with double force upon your
children. Children reared in the
home with few or no associations
will grow up either boorish or SEN
sitively timid.
Ii is a cruel wrong 10 children TO
rear them without bringing them
into continued contact with polite
social life. The ordeal through
which children thus reared are OBJ
liged 70 pass in gaining the ease
and assurance that will make them
at home elsewhere than under the
parental roof is one of the severest.
while those who are constant ly &C.
customed 10 a social life from their
youth are educated in ali its forms
and graces without knowing ii.
Great multitudes OF men and wo.
men all over the country are now
living secluded from social contact
simply from their sensitive consci-
BUSINESS Of ignorance of the forms of
graceful intercourse.
They feel that they cannot break
through their reserve. There is,
doubtless, much that Is morbid In
this feeling, and yet it is mainly ma
tural. From ali this modification
and this deprivation every soul
might have been saved by education
in q home where social life was pro.
perly lived. ID is cruel to deny 10
children the opportunity not only to
become accustomed from their first
consciousness to the forms of society.
but TO enjoy It's influence upon their
developing life.
Sociesy is food TO children. Con-
tact with other minds is the means
by which they are educated, aud the
difference In families Of children will
show at once 70 the accustomed eve
the different social character Of their
parents. But have no space 10
follow this subject further, and leave
10 with you, with the earnest wish
that you will consider it and profit
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