The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-10-04
Home Circle Column

Home Circle Column,
Patience and hopes makes It easier to
bear the cares and sorrows OF life.
Money and time are the heaviest bur-
dens Of life, and the unhapplest Of all
mortals are those who have more Of either
than they know how to use.
Do today's duty, fight today's tsmpta-
tons. Do not weaken or distract YOUR.
self looking forward to things you can
not see, and could not understand II you
saw.
Failure does not always mean weak
ness; it may mean, strength not quite
strong enough for the greater task.
People who attempt nothing seldom fall.
Napoleon failed at Waterloo because all
of Europe was arrayed against him.
There is In this world many wonderful
things. Crystal rivers, mountains
wearing eternal coronets of enow, the
oceans and continents, the sun riding in
majesty through its pathway of stars, his
resplended robes trailing like FURNISHED
gold over land and sea. The age itself
in which we live Is one of miracle, but Of
all.the wonderful creatures of man and
his creator, there is nothing grander, more
wonderful or more valuable, than true
woman. Her price is far above rubies.
Woman, wife, mother! These three de-
grees complete the magic circle in which
she lives, moves and has her being and
has her being and glory.
"The first day was sent to school /
went home at recess, thinking school was
out" says Bert Walker. "As ! have
grown older | find that a whole lot Of
people did the same thing, and the sad
part OF the affair is that too many of us
never went back" In this life be careful
that you don't 60 home at recess. If you
start to learn trade or profession, stay by
it and master it. Don't chase away at
recess. If you have business attend to
it-don't 60 home at recess. This going
home at recess has sent man into bank
ruptcy. 1t has caused mothers tears to
flow and mothers heart to ache. It has
made crusty old bachelors and sour old
maids. 1t has filled worlds with ignor-
ance and barren deserts of plains. Going
home at recess means that you have
fallen asleep at the switch and your train
has plunged into the ditch. Always stay
until school is out.
Many of our brightest young men with
lives OF rare promise, early turn their at
tentlon to a political career which soon
proves their downfall. We soon find
them drinking the health of tho aspirant
for political honors; drinking with ''the
boys" to insure their votes; drinking
toasts at the reception of the victorious
candidate; drinking with everybody be-
fore the election, and great deal more
afterwards. All this has fixed habit
which ne cannot shake off and in the re-
tlrement of his own home he turns to the
wine bottle for the excitement which he
formed in politics. Young men, keep out
OF politics only as you can let your in-
duenee be felt for their publication.
A girl whose days are spent in idleness,
dreaming of things that can never come
to pass, or reading unWholeSome books,
While her mother tolls in the kitchen, had
better never been born; life is purposeless;
a dead weight for her father and brothers
to carry with them; she is misery to
herself and friends; she is Stunned by all
sensible young men and finally becomes
a cross, peyish, irritable old maid, If she
is so fortunate as to escape the temptations
so likely to enSnare one whose moral
senses are rendered blunt by reading the
questionable exploits of the heroes and
heroines of the modern NOVELETTE, curse
of our homes; the thing that rules more
young men and young women than all
other evils combined foe that all true
mothers should fight as they would an
adder.
The happy, ideal home Is not the
home of wealth, neither is it the home of
poverty. In the ideal home you may not
see any costly furniture, no grand plano
or stately pictures; yet how pleasant and
contented the inmates. The father has
no business cares or political ambitions to
vex him; the mother has no trouble with
unruly servants. No question of fine
display In dress to occupy her thoughts.
With pleasure the father and the mother
first see the tottering steps of the little
one, and feel the exquisite joy which it
brings to tho heart of the parent to know