Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-15
rur FooTpATus OF PEACE

them so hard and dull that they have
almost forgotten how to love-and
they have quite forgotten how to
give expression to their love. The
children look to weary, toll worn
mothers for some demonstration of
affection, and look in vain. Wives
appeal Intellectually to their husbands
| for the tender word or caress that
brightens life. 1t is only after some
great sorrow comes and we lose those
we love, that we think in an anguish
of regret:
How much I loved her! She was
the world to me, and | let her live
through all those long years without
telling her, and now she is beyond
the reach of my words. !"
Is it not wise to give expression
to our devotion by word and deed, to
take time to play and to look up at
the stars, in order that we may be
glad of life and make others glad?
We must learn to give expression
to our devotion by word and deed, to
take time to play and to look up at
the stars, in order that we may be
glad OF life and make others glad?
| We must learn to be content so
cOntented that we waste neither time
nor strength in fretful repining But
contcntment does not mean Stagna-
ton. 1t means peace and happiness
and that freedom from worry that
leaves both mind and body unframed
ed IN their efforts of development.
A healthy contentment is the best
possible condition for work.
We are all of us to ready to see
our brother S weakness and mean
ness to judge h N harshiy, 10 despise
him for what we view with leniency
in our own lives. We should despise
nothing except cur own deceit and
cowardice We cannot Judge our
neighbors. We cannot see their
hearts, and often read their Lives
wrong, because we fail to understand
their their real motives.
Let us covet our neighbours kind
ness of heart and gentleness OF man
ner, that we NAV grow wise and no
BILE and tender hearted, that we may
be helpful and comforting and inspir-
| ing to those whom we meet as We
journey onward through life If we
are not by nature graciou; and warm
hearted and thoughtful, let us be So
Ii we have not learned to say the
kind word to be CHEEKY and charit-
able, and to lend hand 10 those who
need assistance, we may be thankful
for one thing-that it is never too
late to mend.
What is the good of dwelling upon
Sights or hostilities? Many of them
are fancied. If we have enemies let
us avoid them and refuse to think
of them To consider the wrongs
that we believe another has put upon
us fills us with anger and all un-
charitableness. Let US rather think
of our friends, who are source of
peace and pleasure and encourage
ment, of Christ who said, Father,
forgive them for they know not what
they do, aud of his Apostle, who
worte to the Corinthians, Charity
sutfereth long and is kind, seeketh
! not her own, is not easily provoked,
1 thinketh no evil
And lastly, especially to the women
who are housebound by much work
and mans little ones-spend as much
time as you can in God S out-of-d doors.
Get the freshness and beauty of the
trees and the flowers into your souls.
| The fresh air will rest and revive YOU
will give you strength and patience
and peace, will make you q nobler
wife u tenderer, wiser mother and a
more helpful friend and neighbor.
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GOOD AND BAD TRAINING.
Isn't it queer things that come to
our minds oft tines? Here we be-
hold little girls decked out in all the
intricate labyrinth of tucks, ruffies,
drawn work; shirring, shocking, pi-
ping, embroidery, with their soft
hair tortured in to bangs, frizzes,
crimps. curls, waves, blaids, pulled,
rolled or pompadoured, as the case may
be, on as dame fashion may decree.
While under that stylish thatch the
busy little brain is teeming with the
seeds of vanity, self-love, pride, en-
Wy, discomfort, jealousy, as ignorant
OF the tender lessons taught by Him
who said, Suffer little children to
come unto me, for of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven, as if. they had
been orphaned in early infancy. Now
! if all this be harsh and untrue our
observation is at fault. Mothers,
we appeal to you, to put more of
your time into the culture of the
character of your children, and less
time on their dress and mere out
ward appearance. The soul alone
endures, and to you it is given more
especially to train immortal sou for
eternal happiness or misery. We see
children often who have never been
taught the principals OF doing unto
others as they would wish to he done
! by, nor simply trust and love Him
who tende'ly placed his hands on
oheir heads, nor their duty to their
parents, to their elders ana to the
poor. 1t is in the early days Of their
young lives that these lessons should
be taught, while their hearts are ten
der and their natures plastic and II
is the mother who should SOW the
seeds in the infant minds which are
to spring up in after year in the
shape of firm principles of rectitude,
truth, charity, courage, honesty, and
all that makes a man or woman wor-
thy or beloved.
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| EVERY child born into the world
has right to clean bill of health
1t has right to be we'll born, to
have a sound body, good blood and
fair degree of brain capacity Many
lives are doomed to perpetual and
hopeless suffering because parents
fail to recognize this high claim An
eminent medica, authority ia tes
that If there were to be one-half the
percentage of loss in calves and colts
that we calmly foot up las infant
mortality there would be legislative
commissions and scientific investi