The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-20
Home Circle Column

Home Circle Column
Use the bitter elements Of life as
medicine and feed on the sunshine.
Time is never lost that is spent in lead
Ing any person into q better life.
Don't neglect your children until they
are grown and then complain because they
neglect you.
Give your children good books and
plenty of them and then help them under
stand what they read.
Habits formed in youth are very apt to
stick to you in after life. Young people
who now spend every dollar they can
raise, are not apt to be thrifty in after lifes
Those who go in rude company and use
rude language will naturally associate
with the ruder class in years to come.
Many parents never seem to think of those
things, but allow their children to drift
along just as it may happen.
Sympathy does not tighten burden
of sorrow, but it does help the burdened
one to bear his load. If, therefore,
you know of a sorrow which presses
another's heart give expression to your
sympathy with him, even though you
understand that he alone must struggle
under the weight of his burden. In one
sense your words cannot help him; in
another sense they can. Speak them out,
therefore, for what they be worth. He
will be grateful for them and you will be
the better for their speaking.
Solomon's description of lady is COM
plete: "The heart of her husband doth
safely trust in her. She will do him
good and not evil all the days of her life.
She girdeth her loins with strength and
stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea,
yea she giveth aid to the needy. She
maketh herself coverings ofstapestry; her
clothing is purple and fine linen. Her
husband is known in the gates. Strength
and honor are her clothing. She openeth
her mouth with wisdom, and in her
tongue is the law of Kindness" Strength,
honor, wisdom, goodness, and virtue are
her requisites. A woman strong and
womanly in her ways in whom the heart
of a woman can safely trust-this is the
perfect lady.
Don't complain of your husband to any,
one, not even to your own mother. If she
is the wise woman you think her she
will respect you all the more. Did you
think when you married your:WiIl or your
Harry that he Was.the one perfect man in
all the world, and now you have found
out that he is very human, after all?
That it does seem sometimes, as though
he loved himself little better than you?
That he can even bear to differ with you
sometimes in matters that concern you
very muchl And, oh, dear little woman,
that he will forget just what you want
him to remember sometimes? Now just
take our advice and don't tell anybody.
He is your husband-your other self-and
you ought to cover his faults just like you
do your own.
Parental love, oonjugal love, filial love
are the keystone to that arch that supports
the pillars of government and keeps our
social system secure. AS rule anarhists
have no children. No, nothing to love
but themselves. AS rule the poor love
their >childIen better than the rich, for
riches will in time absorb man and abb
serb his best emotions. With the poor
the children are first, with the rich they
are second. The law of compensation
comes to everything in this life. The
good and the bad: the joys and the sor-
row are kindly mixed by wise Provi-
dence. Then let us all be content with
our lot. Let US not look over the fence
to envy our neighbor, flor we know not
his secret sorrows. Let us not trouble
our own house for fear we shall inherit
the wind.
Honour the dear mother. Time has
scattered snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep burrows on her cheek, but is
she not sweet and beautiful now? The
lips are shrunken. but those are the lips
which have kissed many a hot tear from
the childish cheeks, and they are the
sweetest lips in the world. The eye is
dim, yet it CLOVIS with the soft radiance
that can never fade. All! yes, she is a
dear old mother. The sands of life are
nearly run out, but feeble as she is, she
will go farther, and reach down lower, for
you than any other upon earth. You can
not enter a prison whose bars can keep
her out; you cannot mount scaffold to
high for her to reach, that she may kiss