The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-19
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN /.

CHILDREN, look In those eyes,
listen to that dear voice, notice the
feeling Of even single touch that is
bestowed upon you by that gentle
hand; make much of 1t while you
have that most precious Of all gifts,
loving mother. Read the unfath-
omable love Of those eyes, the anxiety
in that tone and look, however slight
your pain. In after life you may
have friends; but never again will
You have the inexpressib1e love and
gentleness lavished upon you which
none but mother can bestow.
There has never been spirit Of con-
tempt In the manner in which the
"home man" is regarded by some of
his acquaintances, and there seems to
be an underlying vein Of sarcasm in
the comments of some as they refer
in whitening scorn to their fellow
men, who are perhaps in every way
their moral and intellectual. .superiors.
The home man. is the good man,
the honest man, and the manly man,
and the more time he spends at home
with his family, after his days work
is done, the more is to his credit and
internal happiness. The gay fellow
who spends his time away from home
as much as possible with coterie Of
equally gay associates, lives the life
of the butterfly, which is devoid of
benefit to himself or anybody else and
which when 1t has been lived, has
made no one any better. The "home
man" who spends his leisure time at
home with his wife and little ones, OF
if he is unmarried with his mother
and sisters, is the sensible man, the
man for whom life holds something
broader and better than the sham SO
called pleasures of butterfly ex-
| istence.
COMPARE taste for dress with y
taste for knowledge, culture, virtue
and piety. Dress up an ignorant wo-
man in the ''height of fashion, put
on plumes and flowers and diamonds
and gewgaws; paint her face and
girt up her waist and nothing can
equal her this side Of a painted, feath-
cred savage, nor is there anything
more unpleasant to behold. Yet just
such youngswomen we meet every day
on the street and in public places.
| Why Is It so? Il is because too many
women are regarded as a doll to be
dressed, plaything to be petted
How the soul Of woman hood is dwarf
ed and shrivelled by such trifles and
kept away from the great and useful
fields Of active thought by the gew.
gaws that hang from her bonnet.
The richest dress is always worn on
the soul. The adornments that will
not perish, and that all men must
admire shine from the heart through
this lile. We do not criticise the
we'll dressed person, man or woman
We can but feel that God is lover
of dress. He has placed robes Of
beauty and glory upon all his works.
Every flower is dressed in richness /;
every field bushes beneath mantle
Of beauty, every star is veiled in
brightness, every bird is clothed in
the habiliment of the most exquisite
taste. The cattle upon thousand
hills are dressed by the hand divine.
but to love dress is quite different to
being slave to fashion.
The homu influence is either a
blessing or curse, either for good OF
evil. 1t cannot be neutral. In either
case it is mighty, commencing with
our birth, going with us through life,
olinging to us in death, and reaching
into the eternal world. The specific
influences of husband and wife, OF
parent and child, of brother and sister
Of teacher and pupil, united and har'
moniously blended constitute the
home influence. It is great, silent
irresistible and permanent. Like the
calm, deep stream it moves on in 81
lence, but overwhelming power. i
strikes its roots deep into the human
heart, and spreads it's branches vide
over our whole being. Like the lily
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