The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1906-12-08
Some Evening Revsriss.

preparing AoI Aouo0hCcpiuS, OuT hluu
est thoughts turn to them. A happ,
home is a crying need for everyone
The world may abuse and wrong you
but if you have a home where virtue
peace and plenty reign, you can defy
the world. Let it rage and howl as il
may; in the sunny home circle you
can sing, "Let the Storms Come
Down." This delightful anchorage
must be of your own construction.
Other people can erect guide posts
showing the road that leads that way,
but you yourselves must travel the
road and furnish the equipments for
the journey. Work is the great ave-
nue. all must take. Look around and
see if you can find any substantial,
contented household but somebody is
pegging away and striking hard licks
to make it so. Idleness produces mis-
chief and crime in man, and i'll
health and bad temper in woman.
We cannot think of any feature of the
home life SO likely to wreck it as a
lazy, ne'er-do-well man moving
around, or nervous, idle, fretful wo-
man on the lookout for something to
make her unhappy. This sort of peo-
pie can never be contented unless
they are miserable, and they should
be yoked together to save spelling so
many homes. 1t takes two to COM
plete home and either of the above
mentioned will insure sorrow and
trouble in any family where their lot
is cast.
Don't be ashamed or afraid to say
kind things. There are some people
who look as though they had been
caught stealing sheep after they give
way. to- an Impnlse--tnb be Ialeaaant.
Kindness is not weakness. There
is no danger of overproduction along
this line. There is market for all
the bright looks and good wholesome
pleasantries that can be turned out.
People go to bed every night hungry
for gentle touch or helpful word.
Men and women are laid to rest in
the cemetery every day who would a
thousand times rather have had few
thoughtful tokens Of goodwill when
alive than all the flowers that have
been heaped upon their casket. Hand
out kindness and see the joy it will
bring you, as we'll as those at the 9TH
er end of the transaction. PLEASANT
words are as honey-comb, sweet to the
soul and health to the bones" Get
away from the idea that pleasant
words should now and then be thrown
out, like a bone to dog. Garry a
full basket and be generous. 1t will
beat the widows crust and -four bar
rel at spontaneous reproduction.
,s i.
A girl whose days are spent in idle
ness, dreaming of things that can new
er come to pass, or reading unwhole-
some books, while her mother tolls in
the kitchen, had better never been
born. Her life is purposeless; dead
weight for her father and brothers to
carry with them; she is a misery to
herself and friends; she is summed by
all sensible young men and finally be-
comes a cross, peevish, irritable old
maid, if she is SO fortunate as to es-
cape the temptations SO likely to en-
snare one whose moral senses are rem
dered blunt by reading the questiona-
BILE exploits of the heroes and heroines
of the modern novel-the curse ofour |
homes, the thing that ruins more
young men and young women than all |
other eYils combined-the foe that all |
true mothers should fight as they /
would an adder.
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Ifeyery woman was as careful to