The Grenada sentinel., 1906-07-14
Home Circle

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| Good resolutions need more winding
up than an eight day clock.
The best way to keep the boys at
home is to make it an object for them
not to go out to seek amuSementS, for
these they will have. Every farm
ought to be made a very heaven on
earth to it's inmates. Not alone the
farm home either but all the houses
in the land. Learn each child's ma
ture, and then work some home charm
to keep him in your circle.
| Childish rage unchecked will, after
while become hurricane. Childish
petulance will grow up into misan-
thropy. Childish rebellion will de-
velop into the lawlessnesS of riot and
sedition. If you would ruin the child
dance to his every caprices and stuff
him with confectionery. Before you
are aware of it that boy of six years
| will go down the street, cigar in his
mouth, and ready on any corner with
his comrades to compare pugiliStic at
| tainments. The parent who allows
the Child to grow up without ever
having learned the great duty of obe-
dience and submission has prepared
cup of burning gall for his own lips
and appalling destruction for his de-
ScendentS.
Every father and mother who reads
this paper and have child in the
home have enough on hand. \ throne
a crown, a Sceptar, kingdom under
charge. Be careful how you strike
him across the head, jarring the brain. |
What you say TO him will be centen-
nial and millennial, and hundred |
years and thousand years will not |
step the echo and re-echo. Do not say,
1t is only child" Rather say, "It |
is only an immortal" 1t is only
masterpiece Of Jehovah. 1t is only
being that shall outlive sun and moon
and stars and ages quadrillennial. God
has Infinite resources and He can give
presents OF great value, but when He
wants to give the richest possible gift
to Household He looks around all
the worlds and all the universe and
then gives child. The greatest
present that God ever gave our world
lie gave over nineteen hundred years
ago, and He gave it on a Christmas
night, and it was OF such value that
Heaven adjourned for a recess and
broke through the clouds to look at
1t. Yea, in all ages God has honored i
He makes almost every
picture failure unless there be a
child, either playing on the floor, or :
looking through the window or sitting c
IN the lap, gazing into the face of the
mother
What absurd little things people
quarrel about. What trivial matters
'auSe Ill-feeling in families. The NUT a
on being roasted too little or the beef I
90 much: an opinion about the tenn I,
'erature OF the house, the style of a
urtain that ought to be bought for a
he front windows; the definition OF a (,
Eord, its pronunciation are things +
hat might be argued pleasantly about, a
ut surely are not topics worth quar- N
Ell when peace and good will are of NJ
D much Importance in the home. A b
title ill-feeling is like seed that ir
lay grow into large tree that may W
hadow the whole house. Many men J,
nd women must look back with re- W
ret on the haSty word or the cold re-
roach which was the entering wedge =
lat split the household in two, and
ct how few make point of uttering II
le soft word that turneth away
rath. ki
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Your wise mother is not given to co
Orryng over trifeS. She does not co
IpeCd PERFECTION IN Qay. AND she ! st;
Is put from her, as far as the east is ls'
ON the west, the ghaStly possibility cIa
setting vanity up in the room of loi
We. So she does not begin with ex- ab
lustive attention to the multitude ter
etiquette, knowing that way lies an
e danger of making her boys prigs co,
ID her girls Self-conscious society c
iSSeS before they are in their teens.
le lays down as the laws of her
uSehOld the broad principles of res
ct for elders, reverence for women,
ndinesS for all: and she permeates 5
e home atmosphere with the finest.
nceptiOnS of the Difference and SYM
thy due from soul to soul. Her No
ildren very early delight to place o.
air for grandmother and to save T
,her steps. They learn to be proud saa wh
that restraint which enables them ma
keep self in the background, and OF OF
defer to brother and sister. 1t fen
yer enters their head that servants ed ed
, less worthy of respect than other W
,ple. They are unabaShed in the
,SenCe OF wealth and power as they
to tender toward suffering and
'erty. When she teaches them from
le to time her code of manners v;s, 10
teaches it for home use, and it be- woo
neS fixed by becoming natural I1,o no.