The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-06-23
Home Circle
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MAKE OTHERS HAPPY.
Would you make some saddened heart
Just a little lighter?
Would you make some burdened life
just a little brighter?
Drop a word of hope and cheer;
Set the echoes ringing
With your notes of love and Joy,
AS you go a-singing.
would you smooth the rugged path
Down along LIES highway?
Would you plant the rose OF faith
In some lonely by-way7
Just a deed of blindness lone
Clears the path before us,
And the lilies of Gods love
Bloom and blossom DER u.s."
Many men have gone broke trying
to support a SealSkin wife on a musk
rat income.
Some children are forced to believe
that home is the place where all the
growing is done.
Women have been criticised for Or
ganizing social and literary clubs; but
the club, instead of hurting the home,
has often saved it by ehvating it in
tellectually. Club life in developing
woman gives them the only beauty
that cannot fade.
Some men, after being married a
fnVV WOO re innoninn that oil uu:fn
needs is a home and three meals a
day, with now and then some new
clothes. And yet during the process
of winning the love of that wife he
told her he could not live without
her. What is more, he believed it at
that time.
Absence cannot chill a mothers
love nOr can even vice itself destroy a
mothers kindness. The lowest deg
radationS of human frailty cannot
wholly blot out the remembrance of
the first fond y~earnings of your affec-
ton or the faint memorial of primeval
~innOcenSe; nay, it seems as if the very
consciousness of the abject state Of
her erring child more fully developed
the mighty force Of that mysterious
passion, which can forget and forgive
all things; and though the youth of
her faireSt hopes may be as one cast
off from God and man, yet will she
not fOrSake him, but participate i'm
all things save his wickedneSS.
You are a wife. The whole making
or marring of your husband is in your
hands. A woman can seldom be ele-
waited by Il man, but a man seldom
fails to rise or fall to the woman he
loves. Home springs up at your feet
like flowers at the footsteps OF rain
and sunshine in the Spring-that is,
if you are the right kind Of a wife.
Ten thousand men, however, brave of
heart, noble Of purpose, true of char
acter and generous of soul, could not
make n home. But one pure, low
ing, generous, tactful and Industrious
woman "a make a home for a thou
sand men. Home making is husband
iiuhiuS ouu Ciillu olCSollS, dIIu ULlS ID
the divine distinction that opens be-
fore you as wife and mother. But
have you entered into the spirit of
this mission with all the depths Of
your soul and all the enthusiasm Of
your heart? This is the holy of no.
Hest" of married life. You are to lose
the consciousness of your own exist
ence apart from your huSband-you
and he are one. Never, after the day
of your marriage, ought you to think
or speak OF mine" and ''yourS'-all
is now ours.
When the jealouSieS, the petty i'll
trigueS, the meanness and misunder-
in life asSail you, rise above
them. BE like a lighthouse that il
and beauties the Snarling, /
smashing waves Of the storm that
threaten it., that seek to undermine it
and try to wash I'VE it. This is con-
p3{3HzHE FxzE2N WEHsNE Il Eg0EE