The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-15
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MAKE OTHERS HAPPY.

Would you make some saddened
Just little lighter
Would you make some burdened life
Just little brighter!
Drop word of hope and cheer;
Set the echoes ringing
! With your notes of love and Joy,
AS you go a-singing.
"Would you smooth the rugged path
Down along life's highway!
| Would you plant the rose of faith
In some lonely byway?
! Just q deed of kindness done
Clears the path before us,
And the lilies of Gods love
Bloom and blossom DER u.s."
Many men have gone broke
trying to support a sealskin wife
on a muskrat income.
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Some children are forced to
believe that home is the place
where all the growing is done.
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Women have been criticised for
organizing social and literary
clubs; but the club, instead of
hurting the home, has often saved
it by elevating it Intellectually.
Club life in developing woman
gives them the only beauty that
cannot fade.
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Some men after being married
a few years, imagine that all a
wife needs is a home and three
meals day, and now and then
SEINE new clothes. And yet dur
ing the process of winning the
love of that wife he told her that
he could not live without her.
What is more, he believed it at
that time.
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Absence cannot chill a mothers
love nor can even vice itself de-
stroy a mothers kindness. The
lowest degradation of human
frailty cannot wholly blot out the
remembrance of the first fond
yearnings of your affection or the
faint memorial of primevaI limo.
cence; nay it seems as if the very
consciousness of the abject state
of her erring child more fully de-
veloped the mighty force of that
mysterious passion, which can
forget and forgive all things, and
though the youth Of her fairest
hopes may be as one cast off from
God and man, yet she will not
forsake him, but participate in
all things save his wickedness.
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You are a wife. The whole
making or marring of your huS-
band is in your hands. A woman
can seldom be elevated by a man,
but man seldom fails to rise or
fall to the woman he loves.
Home springs up at your feet
like flowers at the footsteps of
rain and sunshine in the Spring
that is, if you are the right kind
of a wife. Ten thoueand men.
however brave of heart, noble
of purpose, true of character and
generous of soul could not make
one home. But one pure, loving,
generous, tactful and Industrious
woman can make a home for a
thousand men. Home making
is husband making and child
blessing, and this is the divine
distinction that opens before you
as wife and mother. But have
you entered into the spirit of this
mission with all the depths of
your soul and the enthusiasm of
your hearth This is the "holy of
holiesn of married life. You are
to lose the consciousness of your
own existence apart from your
husband-yOu and he are one.
Never, after the day of your mar
riage, ought you to think or to
speak of "mine" and s'yours"-
all is now ours.
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When the jealousies, the petty
intrigues, the WEAKNESSES and
misunderstanding in life asSail
you, rise above them. Be like a
lighthouse that illumines and
beauties the snarling, smashing
waves of the storm that threaten
it, that seek to undermine it and
try to wash over it. This is con
quest. When the chance to win
fame, wealth, success or the at
tainment of your hearts desire
by sacrifice of honor and princi-
pie, comes to you, and it does not
affect you long enough to even
seem a temptation, you have been
victor. That, too, is conquest,
and conquest is part of the
rovaI road IN hanninQSa