Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-22
CONSIDERATIONS FOR nusRANps.

CONSULTATIONS FOR HUSBANDS.
We have to admit that the Home
Circle department. may be a little par
tial to wives and mothers, the queens
of our homes. 1t is written and pub
lished in their interest, Now there
are a few facts on the husband and
father side that may be of interest
to the entire home circle Now the
writer loves and appreciates all that
is best in womanhood and girIhood.
We were the petted boy of grand
good mother. The sweetest bird that
ever warbled or flower that ever
bloomed is a woman. While we adj
nit all this one gets tired of being
fed three times day on "sainted
mother and never word said about
father. When children we were lul-
led to sleep by the soothing ripple of
stories of 'sainted mothers We
all love to call women angels, yet the
bible fails to shew ore instance where
an angel was not a man. All angels
are men in the scriptures, but all
men are not angels in the homes. 1t
was d women who first fell and first
became tempter. While this is q
fact we do not excuse Adam for
squealing on his wife after a more
cunning fellow had whispered to her.
Adam, however, never spoke i'll of
his mother in-law
We know thousands Of toiling,
bread-winning fathers whose wives
and daughters are dressing far be-
yond their means. These fathers by
their toll by day and worry by night
are bent and gray. Their wives are
training and dressing silly girls for
the ball or stage, but in life or death
we sing a plea for women. Now for
a parable or two The master used
parallels. The boy comes home from
college for a weeks vacation. What
golden opportunity after long
absence from home influences for a
heart to heart talk between mother
and son. There is the w G. T. IT,,
Relief Corps, the Aid society, Coffee
social, Missionary tea, the Club, etc.
Seven entertainments and only six
days to crowd them into, and the boy
returns to school hardly having seen
his mother. 1t can also be truthful
ly mentioned that the angel wives
and mothers jump up quite as often
on these cold nights to see if their
flowers are in dagger as they kneel by
the bed and ask God to touch the
hearts of their children during the
present revival. Many years ago but
we shall never forget it, we stopped
about the noon hour at fine farm
home in county adjoining this The
family physician drove up and aligh-
ted to make a professional GU call
The inmates of the home were q
mother and two daughters in their
teens. The mother met the doctor
at the door and hung on to his hand
long time; she giggled and tiirted,
coquetted, laughed, smiled, and talk
ed with her eyes. and her two feet,
and watching intcntly were the two
girls. We thought the glow of his
face must be cheer to the husband
tired 10 the field. Soon the doctor
qeia .enoaathin0-c ilte and bowling Lax,
bye bye" aud the tired husband
came. No picture before and after
was ever contrasted more than was
this one. Can l help you any.
mamma, about dinnery the young
man asked. you could have helped
me whole lot If you had set me ia
two or three pals of coal, and it
wouldn't hurt You to have set in two
pals OF water from the cistern."
Ten American cities have half a
million vile women calling in the boy
as he passes her door. Capital and
labor may war but woe to all hands
when any modern fad" or right ?
creeps in to mar the real, dear old
patient, solicitous home WITHOUT
teaching sobriety and decorum of the
old time happy wife and father.
But, in conclusion, there are those
who are giving life and love and
council aud solicitude in behalf of
sons and daughters; yes, we are glad
the Book of all Books knows there
are fathers too, as well as mothers.
We are glad that the Incompatible,
matchless man of Galilee spoke as
man never spoke and uttered the
parable of the prodigal and a faultless
father and used him as figure of
God, and could also say like as
father pitieth his children etc. The
concordance will show you 500 times
the name of father. Notwithstand-
ing all these facts we still love the
fair sex and as q closing comforting
word will say that women have en-
dured about all the men have ana en-
dured the men also. God bless the
dear women. We pity the man who
has meme and some of them who have.
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FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY.
On the 22nd of February the birth
6oxr rF Eo~.rr. Mo cl;,r.+x