The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-09-27
Home Circle Column

Home Circle Column
/ Why has boy any more right than
q girl to leave his hat on the rarlo1
table. his gloves on the mantle, hi.
coat on the chair or newell post, and
his shoes in the middle Of the room |
He can learn ordelliness just as well
90 his sister if he begins in time
Nowis the time to begin.
II 9 boy is to be stlittle gentle
man" when away from home, he
must be taught, and. MT by precept
alone, but as we'll by example. when
he is at home. And the influence Of
the father upon the son, and Of the
mother upon the daughter, will be
mnch more potent than any amount
OF advice or any rules Of etiquette.
The misguided people who assert
that marriage as an institution is q
failure are generally gazing through
spectacles blurred by their own mis-
takes. They have made failure
perhaps and it may be because Of
selfishness. There are a thousand
happy hearth-stones to one that is
cold and cheerless-a thousand rrizes
to one blank, and we usually hear
more about prizes than blanks. Mar
riage is not failure. Some individ-
uals are.
It is probably not true that family
manners are less courteous now
than formerly; probably the reverse
is the fact, but it must be admitted
that there is yet room for great deal
of Improvement. Somehow, some
where, there has crert into popular
acceptance the idea that with mar
riage, or at least with the waning Of
the honeymoon, the '1over days. are
over, and the kindness, gentleness,
and attention which existed during
the courtship has no longer place in
domestic economy Of the welded pair J.
Every inebriate you see staggering
along the road or street, you know is
going to make some woman's life
miserable. Some wife or mother, or
helpless children are to be at the
mercy Of mauman. You smile at
his antics, without pity for her who
Is to be the agonized sufferer, nor
give thought of what you might do
to help her in her friendless, homeless
condition for the wife of drunkard,
rich or poor, living in glided hall, or
squalid hut, has no home. The ten.
der associations that cluster around
that sacred name do not include
drunkardness, The two kingdoms,
heaven and home. do not admit the
drunkard. Where he lives is hell.
We occasionally observe our mascu-
line brothers take some exception to
our ideas in this column: Well, we
don't blame them, they were not par
ticularly written for them, although
we believe there is much in this
department that would do them good,
and we are glad to know,
that some give them read
ing. We write particularly in the
interest Of our wives, our mothers and
Aanghters, with an occasional hint
for fathers and sons) and we have re-
ceived the testimony of many, that
they have been greatly encouraged
by what they have found in this de.
partment, and SO we feel our labor
is not entirely in vain, but are en-
couraged to work on, and as best we
can, promote the interest Of the
| household.
| While Robert s. Ingersoll is not
often quoted in q Home Circle Depart.
ment, and his teachings were harmful
| to the home, yet he said some Of the
most beautiful things ever spoken ani
said them the best. He was on ont
occasion asked toagive two views in I
symposium Of women and in reply
said: It takes a hundred men to make
an encampment, but one woman Cal
make home. Inot only admire . wo
man as the most beautiful object evel
created, but I reverence her as tht
redeemed glory Of humanity, th'
sanctuary Of all virtues, the pledge o
all perfect qualities Of heart ant
head. Il is because women are s.
much better. than men that their fault
arc considered greater. The on
thing in this world that is constant
the only peak that rises above allsth'
clouds, the ono window in whicl