The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-17
Home Circle

Il liO1ilS iiSiS !
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast his jewel lies;
And they are fools who roam:
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow.
And that dear p%lace-our home.
The long drawn frown only pulls
men down.
Don't you often meet men who in
spire you with a desire to hit them
with a club?
Don't claim an ignorance Of evil.
but rise up and over it to purer realms
of thought, and help yourself and hui
mainly by thinking and talking of
the good things all about us. Beauti-
full loves fine friendship, noble chart
ties. Look for them and you will
find them.
There should live in the depth of
every human heart n warm and sun
ny spot where nestleS the images of
early love and sweet remembranceS of
childhood home. The memory of
those first impressions made upon the
baby s mind and heart will live for
ever. Oh, how fleeting are days of
childhood. Dear mothers, shall you
permit yourselves to be so ''cumber-
ed about much serving' that the rich
garden of your child's soul will lie
neglectedwith foul weeds choking out
all worthy and beautiful growth?
Probably most Of the good mothers
who weekly read this department are
heartily glad that our presidents
daughter, Miss Alice Roosevelt, is
married. Miss Alice was doubtless a
fine girl. but many a mother Who'll
reads this column has a daughter her
equal in every respect. The effort
made by emperOrS and kings of for
eigD countries to make a princess out |
Of n of our American girls was in
bad taste and before the golden knot |
was tied became disguStIngly silly to
the average American. Many a pool
mans daughter possesses as many
laudible attributes of a princess as did
Miss Alice. The American people
have never been educated to worship
royalty and the daughter of a prince
a duke has no edge" Over the
daughter Of an honest farmer in this
land of the free and the home of the
brave" II was very fitting that
Miss Roosevelt, as the daughter of a
president whom we all delight to hon
or, should have been married in a
becoming her high station in So
cial life, but it vas carried to the ex-
IRENE and became disgusting to the
American idea. The newspapers are
to blame for the "guSh" that has
been poured out SO lavishly and we
doubt not that it was more d~istaste-
full to the president and his family
than to anyone else.
Every child has a right to such an
as will qualify for life'S
This is recognized as a patriot |,
duty by the state. The perma-
pence of u political institution de-
Ponds on the intelligence of our citi-
1.-The bayonets of foreign
soldiers are less to be feared. than are ,
he ballots of ignorant voters" The /,
Welfare of the state depends more on /.
he moral and religious training Of /;
Ter citizens than on their intellectual ;
raining, yet the state makes no pro- J..
7ision for this moral discipline. In i,
Ome cases it makes it difficult or even :
impossible to cur such training. ,
The training Of the mind is not all. :
There must be a training Of the moral I
enSibilitieS, particularly the will. .
lot all this is the duty of the pub =
ic school; part is duty of the church,
'ut the largest part is the function OF il
lome. Every child deprived, by Y
whatever means, of this education and +
raining is defrauded out of an inalien- a
BILE right, and when he comes into a
he inheritance of his citizenship, +
1ay be depended upon to avenge him. I
elf on the society that perpetrated d
he fraud upon him. In Difference to Z
he views of infidefs, atheists and r.
theirs, the Bible is cast out of the v
ublic schools, and all school books are a
tripped bare of everything that might S
end to build up and strengthen the
hild'S moral character. 1t is cruelty
} withhold from children this higher a
nd greater training. Children have 81
ghtS which the state is bound to re- b
oect. 1t ~disregards them at it's own 81
eril. ly'
WRITTEN BY A MOTHERLEss GIRL. ii
Many times a girl could be saved un- -"
,lu,Sutferinp. sometimes life itself. if q