Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-08-10
Observation-Disclosures
= IThe Home Circle Column.sE
= Pleasant Evening Reveries.A-A Column Dedicated
to Tired Mothers as They Join the Home
Circle at Evening Tide
= Thoughtful Crudities Prepared by Special
- Correspondent j. Knox Hail.


souls. Failure will bump them, mis-
fortune will jostle them. Unless
they can stand up and set their jaws
and fight. they are goners. The boy
who has to work hard with his han1s,
to get his education, to get his
start" in life, is training his moral
muscle for the fight. He is ready
when the shock of combat comes.
He is full armored for the fight; he
knows what it is to stint himself, to
do without comforts, and luxuries; be
is more afraid of crooked dollar
than he is of shabby coat He can
go without shave a week If he has
not the dime to pay for it. Dirty
hands do not keep him awake nights,
but dirty conscience would. Such
boys have mortgage on life. They
are not the poor boys. The poor
boys are the boys who have an easy
time of it. If they succeed it is a
sign that they have not been loafing;
it is a sign that some way they haye
been gaining strength. If your boy
is loaing, having good time, for
heavens sake stop him. put some
dirty clothes on him that he has
earned himself, and let him have the
new clothes only when he has paid
for them. Too many boys these days
are goirg to the bad because their
mothers insist on sending them.
They are the poor rich boys. Pity
them
TRUE LIVING.
1t seems to be oifficlt in this world
for men and women to keep q middle
course. For one it is all saving and
working, for another all spending
apd Sinking. And neither is happy.
Idleness has as many miseries as
|overwork. 1t is only those lives in
which labor and leisure arc united
that are truly happy. The middle
course is the right course. We must
have some purpose in living and work
enough to be self-respecting, No
idle person is self-respecting, and
without self-respect we cannot be
happy. We must have time to rest
and cultivate the mind and the heart.
Too much work stupefies the intellect
and deadens the affections, A wo-
man vino is tired to death" cannot
be bright and cannot appear affec-
tionate, however tender hearted she
may be naturally.
1t takes great deal of intelligence,
character and good sense for wo-
man who does her own work and
cares for her own children not to
everwork. The demands upon her
time and strength are manifold
There are thousand things to be
done in the house.
Surely life was made for something
more than this, or else it is not worth
the living God has endowed man
with several natures,-a physical, a
mental, moral. Man cannot liv,. by
bread alone. He must have food for
the mind and food for his heart. 1t
is as. great sin to starve the soul as
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moral' Suicide does not seem SO dread
full as physical self -destruction, be-
cause it is less palpable,, less sudden,
less apparent in its results; but it
would seem more terrible if we had
the power to see the effect consuma
ted. A dead mind. a dead heart, q
dead soul, that drags itself about in u
living body. is terrible spectacle.
Whether this deadening of the soul
is the result of active immortality. or
of passive submission to over work |
and neglect of the higher nature, it's |
result is the same. We must not |
fling away and squander the best of |
life. We must work, but we must |
not drudge. We must remember
that esd breathed into US the breath |
of life, that we are living spirits, and
that God and man hold us to account
for the fruits of the spirit, as well as
for the work of the body. When we
have labored until we are weary it is
right to stop and rest; it is right to
have the spirit and character to re-
fuse to be reduced to the level of
dumb driven cattle. 1t is right to
stop and think, to distinguish what
must be done, to realize
that each day should have it's pleas
ures and recreations, and to take the
time for them.
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