The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-03
Home Circle Column

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Women should grow more devoted
and men fonder after marriage II they
have the slightest idea Of being happy
as wives and husbands. 1t ID 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 8
harsh word to his sweetheart, and
many a wife will look glum and
morose on her husbands return who
had only smiles and words Of cheer
for him when he was her sutton.
Don't repress the buoyant spirit of
your children: half an hour Of merri-
ment around the lamp and firelight of
a home blots out many care and
annoyance during the day, and the
best safeguard they can take with
them into the world is the unseen in
fuence of a bright little domestic
circle. Put home first and foremost;
for there will come time when the
home circle will be broken, when you
long for the touch of vanished
hand and the sound of voice that is
STILL" and when your greatest
pleasure will be in remembering that
you did all in your power to put a
song under every burden, to make each
other happy.
| COMPANIONSHIP HEALTHFUL.
There is wise old German saying
that "Only god or brute can dwell
in solitude. - Men and women need
congenial companlonship, both for the
sake Of health and happiness just
as your lungs, after using all of the
oxygen in close room, need to be
filled with fresh, out-of door air, SO
your mind needs contact with other
minds to get new ideas There is
such thing as mental as we'll as
physical hunger. Herders on the
cattle ranches of the west frequently
become mad from the isolation they
ale forced to endure. Women on
lonely farms and in small villages
grow morbid and mildly insane, and
people do not guess that the cause is
want of companionship
1t is for the reason that woman 8
work at home is always more trying
than that of her husband, who goes to
his office, sees new faces, and has the
friction that is produced by meeting
other people. Even the farmer has
more intercourse with his neighbor at
market, or at the village grocery, than
his wife, who may not see anyone
outside of her own family for weeks.
1t is great mistake of young people
to isolate themselves. Even if their
tastes lead them to quiet life. they
should make it point to cultivate a
few agreeable friends.
A good husband makes good wife,
Some men can neither do without
wives nor with them; they are
wretched alone III what is called
single blessedness, and they make
their homes miserable when they get
married; they are like Tompkin's
dog, which could not bear to be loose
and howled when it was tied up
Happy bachelors are happy husbands,
and happy husband is the happiest
of men. A well matched couple carry
a joyful life between them, as the two
spies carried the cluster of Eschol
They multiply their joys by sharing
them, and lessen their troubles by
dividing them. This Is fine arith-
metic. The wagon of care rolls
lightly along as they pull together,
and when it drags little heavily, or
there's hitch anywhere, they love
each other all the more, and SO light
en- the labor.
FOR THE BOYS.
The young man who is always
found around the street corners and
who spends his evenings in drinking
and playing cards, will never amount
to much. 1t is contrary to the
natural order Of things. The boys
who spend their precious youth in
this manner, are the ones who will