The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1906-10-13
Some Evening Rsvsrles.

Iui CoCne nome, YET ne SAID some
the most beautiful things ever spokel
and said them the best. He was OF
lone, occasion asked to give two view
in symposium Of women and in re
ply said: "It takes hundred men te
make an encampment, but one woman
can make home. Inot only admire
woman as the most beautiful object
ever created, but I reverence her as
the redeemed glory of humanity, the
sanctuary of all virtues, the pledge Of
all perfect qualities Of head and
heart. 1t is because women are so
much better than men that their
faults are considered greater. The
one thing in this world that is con-
stant, the only peak that rises above
all the clouds, the one window in
which the light burns forever, the one
star that darkness cannot quench, is
woman's love. 1t rises to the great
est heights, it sinks to the lowest
depths, it forgives the most cruel in
juries. A woman's love is the per-
fume of the heart. This is the real
love that subdues the earth; the love
that has wrought all miracles of art;
that gives us music all the way from
the cradle song to tho grand closing
symphony that bears the soul away
on wings of fire; love that is greater
than power, sweeter than life and
stronger than DEATH"
X X
Women should grow more devoted
and men fonder after marriageif if they
have the slightest idea Of being happy
as wives and husbands. 1t is losing
sight of this fundamental truth which
leads to hundreds of divorces. Yet
many man will scold his wife who
would never think of breathing a
harsh word to his sweetheart, and
many a mifa will look glnm and NOR
ose, on her husbands return who had
only smiles and words of cheer for
him when he was her suitor.
X x
Don't repress the buoyant spirit Of
your children; half an hour of merri- |
ment around the lamp and freight Of
home blots out many a care and an
noyance during the day, and the best
safeguard they can take with them
into the world is the unseen Inffuence
of bright little domestic circle. Put
home first and foremost; for there will
come a time when the home circle
will be broken, when you long "for
the touch Of vanished hand and the
sound of a voice that is STILL and
when your greatest pleasure will be in
remembering that you did all in your
power to put song under every bur-
den, to make each other happy.
***
Most children learn how to read;
very few what to read. Parents send
the little ones to school, and there
they learn to get the thoughts of 9TH
ers from the printed page, but the
parents too often forget that this new
acquisition may be used for either
good or evil; very few realize how a
child's life may be blighted by what
1t reads. Children had better never
learn at all than to read that which
corrupts the morals and destroys the
powers of the mind. In some of the
best schools the pupils are taught
what to read, as we'll as how to read.
Where this is done, the intelligent CO.
operation of the parents is of the
greatest Importance. Where this is
not done, the parents must either at
tend to the matter themselves, or
leave their children to be led by fancy
and impulse in their choice of reading
matter.
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