The Laclede blade., 1907-04-13
Some Evening Reveries.
Cherish the home with infinite ten

hememDer LIE has nothing better t.
offer you; it is the climax and crown
Of Gods gifts. Make every day oflifi
in it rich and sweet. 1t will not las
! long. See to it that you plant no SEEDS
OF bitter memory; that there will be nc
neglect and harshness to haunt you in
after years. Your little ones will die
: and 60 hence with your words and
spirits planted in their eternal nature.
Sons and daughters will 60 from you
into the great world, to live as you
have taught them, to be strong or
weak according to the spirit you have
engrafted upon them. How you will
yearn for them whether living or dead.
How sweet or how bitter will be the
days when they prattled about you in
the home from which they have gone
forever! So live with them and train
them now that when they are gone
you and they can look back on the
past with thankfulness and not re-
gret.
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The truest, best and sweetest type
of the girl of today does not come from
the home of wealth, she stops Out from
the house where is comfort rather than
luxury. She bv1uugs to the great
middle class-that class which has
given us the best wifehood, which has
given helpmates to the foremost men
of our time; which teaches its daugh-
ters the true meaning of love; which
teaches the manners Of the drawing
room and the practical life Of the
kitchen as we'll as teaches it's girls the
responsibilities of wifehood and the
greatness of motherhood. These girls
may not ride in their carriages, they
do not wear the most expensive gowns,
they may even help to enlarge the
family income, but these selfsame
girls are the great bulwark of society, |
not only of the present but of the
future.
Xxx
He who can choke the sweet flowers
of social love, and taint them with
disease; or in the paradise of earthly |
bliss, where the plants of virtue -four
ish, spread the blight and mildew of
desolation, hatred and distrust
can crush his neighbor's fame to dust,
and build on its ruins-who can write
infamy on the brow of others, to prove
his own purity, is neither man nor
beast, but heartless iend. Those
who have seen their dearest interest
tam pered with; who know what it is to
have the priceless gem ofa good name
sullied by the poisonous breath ofcold,
IMPLYING slander, these best can say,
he has no heart. IF the lightening's
fash eyer darts from heaven to strike
the guilty down, it will blast the hope
of murderers such as these.
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Home is the one place in all the
world where hearts are sure of each {
other. 1t is the place where we tear
,ff the mask of guarded and suspicious f
,oldness which the world forces us to r
wear in selfdefense, where we pour
,ut the unreserved communications of J
ull and confding hearts. 1t is the .
,lace where expressions of tenderness |;
,ush out without any expression of
Iwkwardness and without any dread Of
idicule. Let man travel where he
Eill, home is the place to which "his
leart untrammeled fondly turns"
lie is to double all pleasure there, BE : :
} to divide all pain. A happy home
the single spot of rest which man
as on earth for the cultivation of his t
oblest sensible ties. Ig
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Rev. Eubank viii preach at the Il
hristian church Saturday night, Sun W