The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-10-25
Home Circle Column.
A Column. Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as they jon the
Home Circle.

She came TO the breakfast table in
a torn, dirty dress, with half combed
hair. The table was without a cloth,
the breakfast badly cooked. The chill
dren were dirty aud quarrelsome, and
she saw them slip away TO school Will
out attempting to wash their faces
or change their soiled aprons. Her
husband had hastily swallowed cup
Of coffee and left the house without
a word to wife or children.
She sat for while gazing indiffer-
emily at the untidy table and disorder
~ room. and then began lazily TO set
things in order She dawdled over her
work without spirit or system. and
the children were home from school
befor III BIDS had been touched. The
two Oldest girls hurried up the stairs
with scowling face at her scowl-
ing command to them to make up the
beds. Dinner was half an hour late
und her husband stormed up and
down the untldy house. ate an III
/ cooked dinner in sullen silence and
{ hurried from the unpleasant home.
, The children followed. scattering 10
the neighbors, to the barn, anywhere
.aEaey frSm home ane mother The
darkness dnUe the various members
5 or the family%pto the house again.
j but they came Mwillingly. and slip
, ped away to bed uncared for, cross
) and wretched with their badly nour-
e ished bodies, and hearts that hun
, gcred for the peace and comforts
j Ui home.
[ Do YOU think this IS an exaggerat-
ed picture? It IS not. There are homes
y lust ike this. and the dirt and dis
q order and discomfort and Leartache
he at some woman's door
For the overworked wife and
imother. FOR the invalid, for the -
norant who are trying TO learn, who
,re doing their level best 20 bear
:, heavy burden. we offer pity, sym
usthy aud help. but for the indolent
woman We have only scorn
y There is no place in the universe
for lazy woman We will care for
the sick woman. we will tolerate a
cross woman-but what shall We 90
e to the lazy woman Because the home
o Is the very center Of life. the home
!epr must b active. orderly and con-
scientious-these qualifications she
y must have. and II she can add to
. these. thrift. intelligence and tender
ness We find wherever she is. that
most blessed and beautiful OF all
o earthly delights a happy home.
+. ETERNAL DISH WASHING.
= We may in this item be repeating
q to our lady readers a tiresome ruth.
. but It will show them at least one
II editor appreciates their real condition
= In life The quiet fidelity with which
a she" will dish-wash her life away
Cor him is marvel OF endurance
and grace Just here is the servitude
y OF woman the greatest. No sooner
b. is her work done than It requires to
3 be done again Man works up jobs,
j.. ends them. and takes his pay This
pay can be translated into something
Il else desirable A man works all day
D and draws pay for his days work
l. This pay allures him. as oats a horse
i, homeward bound Thus men work by
81 terms and jobs; and although wOrs
To- is endless as to quantity. Yet when
cut up thus into terms and JOBS, We
men go heartily on our journey ant
count our milestones Not 50 with oul
4. mate. II We are so fortunate as e
have one. She mends our socks, anC
We put our irrepressible toe upor
the darned spot and she darns II
again. she washes for the family
und the family makes haste to sent
back the same garments 10 be wash
cd again. she" puts the room in or
der aud We get ready to be "riC
+. up" again. The same socks the SAM
washing. the same room every time
pa She has no successive jobs. no terms
no pay day. no tally-stick Of life
She washes the same dishes three
hundred and sixty-fiye-yes. tire
times three hundred and sixty-fiv'
er times every year. No wonder sh'
breaks It and is glad of IT, What ;
relief it must be when she can sal
, Z have done with that dish"
co TO FARMING.
A good living is what compare
I'd lively few men succeed in makinl
as in village or city life, and yet nothinl
Is more easy of accomplishment OF
the farm. Besides. there is pleas
." ure in cultivating and embelishinl
the earth. improving and increas
ng its products. and thus adding L
the aggregate of human happiness