The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-08
Crude Thoughts from the Edi-
toriaI Pen.

NTuOC Thoughts IrOm lne E0l-
torial Pen.
Discomfort is the peg In your shoe
that hurts.
A woman's smilelis the little noe m
we find 10 the prose Of life.
II everyone was ~ good as they
think their neighbors ought to be,
what splendid world this would be.
Isn't Ii better to say to the boy
when you want him to do something,
II wish you would" and not, lyon
must?''
When, at eve, at the bounding Of
the landscape, the heavens appear to
recline SO slowly on the earth, i'm
agiuation pictures beyond the horizon
an asylum Of hope, native land Of
love; aud Lature seem silently to re-
peat that man is imm ortal.
Toward the cheerful home the child.
rem gather las clouds and as doves to
their windows" while from the home
which is the abode Of discomfort,
strife and trouble, they fly forth az
vultures to rend their prey. The class
of men who disturb and distress the
world, are not those born and nur-
tured amid the hallowed influence OF
christian homes, but rather those
whose earthly life has been q scene OF
trouble and vexatlon-who have start.
ed wrong in the pilgrimage, and whose
course is one of disaster to themselves
and trouble to those around them.
\ A single bitter word may disquiet
y an entire family for q whole day
One surly glance casts gloom Over
the household, while smile, like {
gem Of sunshine, may light up thu
darkest and weariest hours. Like nm
expected flowers, which spring NJ
along our path, full Of freshness, fra
GRANGE and beauty, do kind words anG
gentle acts and sweet dispositions
make glad the home where peace ani
} blessing dwell. No matter how hum
BILE the abode, if it be thus garnishet
with grace and sweetened with kind
ness and smiles, the heart will turr
lovingly toward it from all the tn
! multi of the world, and it will be tn,
dearest spot beneath the circuit Of the
sun. And the influence Of home per
petuate themselves,
For good, every day household an
!; gel give us the woman who laughs
Her biscuits may not always be JUS
right, and she may occasionally burr
her bread and forget to replace dislo
Gated buttons, but for solid comfort
all day and every day she is a very
paragon. Home is not a battle field,
nor life one long unbending row. The
: trick of always seeing the bright side,
, of shining up the dark one, is a very
important faculty. one of the things
no woman should be without. We are
not all born with sunshine in oul
hearts, as the Irish prettily phase it,
but we can cultivate cheerful sense
Of humor if we only try.
A home that is not home is 9
school of vice. Domestic love leads
to all noble virtues, but discord OF
coldness in the home genders selfish.
ness and badness. Despotism in the
} family is the most common and worst
in all the earth. Family government
is not parental tyranny. Govern.
ment is good, loving, cordial, help.
/. full, joyous; its yoke easy and burden
light; but parental tyranny is harsh,
exacting, cruel, discouraging and
/ gendereth meanness. We have fairs
to improve meohanicism, stock, farm.
ing and fine arts; measures to improve
home are thousand times more i'm.
portant. Here is where the right
, kind Of men are made.
BORROWING TROrrRT,E.