Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-01

eNii ti'GbiSS may go. put youth, GOOD cneef
ana love endure forever.
No Man
Knows quite what is swelling in the child $
heart Lowell in his ninth year writes to
his brother: II am now going TO tell you
melancholy news. l have got the ague to-
gether with a gumbie. am going to have
new suit of blue broadcloth clothes to
wear every day and to play in. Mother tells
me that l may have any sort of buttons |
choose You must keep what I have told
you about my clothes a secret. If you don t
shall not tell you any more secrets
This htde-andseek game between the lit
tie soul and the upper angels is going on all
the time. 1t is solemn sanity game, and
Is respected by all who remember their
childhood
Do not bring a blush of shame to your
boys face by failing to respect his reti-
cences- If YOU do you viii put bride on
the tongue of innocence Another good
thing 10 avoid is talking at him or over
him in company with didactic purpose.
GIVE them the same privilege that you give
yourself in drinking in pleasurabl what is
agreeable and wise
Be SLOW yourself to initiate instructive
conversation, but give early thanks when a
itlenE arrives at Your table who makes your.
boy face shine with a new thought or
VINO calls up tear with a sweet senti-
ment- Invite such a friend and give him a
place at the Preside
Questionable as companions of childhood
are ohcles and grandfathers of the right
Sori-especlaliy those who have had a
strong, varied and honorable life.
They seldom have a didaetic purpose
They seek only to live their lives over
again in sympathetic company
The home is the educational center The
topic introduced there is likely to be
n JJyr
ever much 1t may be modified in the street
caucus OF boys or Solemnly formulated III
the congress of youths.
Remembering this fact. which is obvious
to any one who observes the faces of chill
dren at the table or round the dreside. we
may fairly shudder at the things that are
said in the presence of these little absorb
euts.
A Noted
Physician is advising every one to read for
half an hour before going to bed, and he has
taken the pains to draw up a list of bed
side literature" This includes such Eight
literature" as Marcus Aurelfus," Epic
tetus,' 'Plutarchs Lives and other books
that no gertlewomans library should be
without and which every gentIewoman
SHOULD read.
Lofty PHILOSOPHERS and poetry are some of
the best of bedtime reading. Milton and
other poets of the sublime order are not
Tor Its leaving the physical world, but are
also real nutriment for It to absorb during
the long night watches when 1T remains
active despite the body's rest Thus durin g
sleep the higher faculties may be directly
cultivated.
If one can go no farther than fiction the
masters of plot weaving, like Wilkie Col
Inns: are. not to be chosen for pillow COM
paHionS, since they are more than likely to
murder sleep. Richardson, of whom John
son said that any one who should read him
for the story would hang himself is a
great eXcmplar of bedside authors If one
have reached the delightful period of OLD
fogydom Scott. Dickens, Hawthorne Thack-
cray and Washington Irving are good. And
criticisms of life by N. Anatole France,
graceless Able Coignard and the phiIoso-
phizings of NJ. Bergeret also help unfail-
ingly to knit the raveled sleeve of care.
If reading be deliberately chosen as
means of woong sleep, the graver forms
of literature always should be chosen.
The Most-out-of -the-Way-
Place In all Texas was one woman's home
for some ten years. When she came back,
more charming than ever, she revealed her
secret. Il never let either my dress or my
mind get careless. Once loosen everything
and you dissolve In sloth and lose ground
before you know it,
She kept up her correspondence with
many friends, subscribed for a New York
newspaper anu Tedu II regularly, even II
trfe late. and studied with so much inter-
est the life of the far-away spot where she
lived, It's people, its animals, It's plants
It's customs and incidents, that when she
came back to her eastern home and talked
to her friends about IL every woman of
them sighed and said: 'Oh. what an oppor-
tunity you had in being therer instead of
con miseradng her for being a thousand
miles from woman's club
What such a woman does is 8 suggestive
hunt to the woman who falls behind In her
husbands march to worldly success 1t is
not too much to say that a woman who
dresses quietly but daintlly, who talks In a
quiet voice, who Is quietly courteous to all
can fill her position by her husbands side
In fairly competent manner, even If she
is keenly sensitive that she Is ignorant of
much that other women possess in the way
of learning and ability. She can be a good
listener, and that is a rarer accomplishment
today than to be a good talker The woman
who says little has indeed become re-
freshing.
With native intelligence any woman can
be mistress of the ordinary rules of eti-
quette and courtesy, and even II the rest is
silence she Will not have to blush for her
self Intellectually progressive she may
not be, but q well-bred woman Is never out
of date, even in our advancing civilization.
ADA MAY KRECKER.