Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1906-09-13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
{ Home Circle Column.
Observation-Disclosures
A column dedicated to tired mothers

cultivate discontentment when |
We could enjoy peace and happi- |
ness. Some people look on the
dark side of every picture, and
thereby lose the beauty of todays
sunshine in anticipating the dark
clouds of tomorrow. Let us rath-
er catch the sunshine and weave
its golden threads into a fabric of
life, and when the night of sor-
row shedsits gloom around us
those threadsof treasured sun
shine will make our sadness less.
We should meet our troubles
with q will determined to con-
quer.
Teach the children to be kind
to the unfortunate in life, and
never to make game of any, for
heaven loves and pities the poor
and humble. Let conversations
at home be pure; help the chill
dren with their lessons at night
and see that they give proper
time to their lessons while at
home, and to be respectful to
their teachers. And, again say,
help them with their lessons.
OF course there are parents who
are unfortunate and can't assist
their children. So much the
more should they give them the
advantage of studying, that they
may profit wherein they them
selves have erred. Even if fan
CIV work is laid aside and the lit
tie dresses are to be plain, give
more time and interest to i'm
proving the mind, for how much
better says Ruskin, is a soul and
mind we'll cared for, than fine
dresses. For when refining quail
ties surround the home, the home
influences the school, and the
school influences the community.
Around the home hearths may
lie the serpents coiled to strike
with its poisoning fangs the pratt
tling child about its mothers
knee.
So invoke the guardian angel
of peace to hover over your home
nest, that you maybe secure I'M
der the shadow of his wings.
-.-s~.-- I, lssrs1Ss 49,.
turns showed Mr.. Evans elect gr'
governor of Tennessee .ayAsI We
ana GaIe III anxiety about Y5hr
neighbours spiritual or moral con-
dition.
The one thing of Importance
above all otherssfOr. each indi-
vidual is selfdevelopement.
Once developed you will be an
inspiration to others to help
themselves. You were sent here
to make the best use of your
, spirit and mind. Unless you dc
: this, it is useless for you to at
tempt to benefit others. If you
do this your example will be al
inspiration and guide.
If you keep quite and set an ex
: ample of happy, attractive n or
atty and unselfshness you will
; be a more successful reforme
than a thousand aggressive anC
disagreeable teachers and med
y dlers. You cannot live another
. life, but you can live your owl
y and live it well. Ask no man
advise, but study the people yo1
meet and avoid the habits an,
manners which you find annoy
) ing to you in others, and cult
vate the qualities you find ar
pleasant and helpful.
i The time many people give t
worry over the depravity of thu
world might be given self analy
sis and meditation,
Resolve to do and be wha
d you want others to do and be.
e 1t is more important to b
J. than to do, remember, yet if yo
do something worth while 20
n are sure to be something wort
o while. The lighted lamp give
g forth radiance.
There are those who vast
e life in running about the worl
D offering matches to fellow pill
grams they believe to be in til
dark, while their own lamps ar
n unlighted.
n There is great plant of spirit
f ual electric light within yourself
The most important thing in lif
10 30 Grd that nIant and IN cor