The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-02-28
IN THE HomE NEST
Cheerful Evening Reveries for Tired
Mothers


Good manners are not taught In the
school books, They are found in the
home lessons.
What do you think OF man who
will sit down to the table three times
u day, and thank the Lord for bread
out Of which he has swindled some
poor man or beat his grocer?
WHAT SHALL TEACH MY CHILD?
Teach him that ii is better TO die
than TO lie; that IL is better to starve
than to steal; that it is better to be Il
scavenger or woodchopper than an
idler and dead beat; that 1t is just as
criminal and reprehensible to waste
Monday AS to desecrate Sunday; tha,
labor is the price Of all honest posses.
sions; that no one is exempt from the
obligation to labor with head, hands
or heart; that "an honest man Is the
noblest work of Cod" that knowledge
Is power; that labor Is worship and
idleness sin; that it is better to eat
tho crust of Independent poverty than
to luxurate amid the richest viands US
q dependent. Teach him these facts
till they are woven into his being and
regulate his life, and we will insure
his success-though the heavens fall.
IL is well to be chart table in all our
conclusions, mindful that we often
need the cloak Of charity ourselves.
FIJI life with sunshine and strew
flowers where others throw stones.
Make life bright spot IN this world,
and whore you soc flowers cast smiles,
and whether 1t be morn, dusk or night,
let the sunny side Of nature always be
ut full meridian.
Ekk
1t would astonish many of us some
times If We could know what our
noighbors think Of us. Every man
has some kind OF a standing In tho
community where he lives, and he is
sized up great deal closer than he
imngincs. You may set il down as u
fact that there isn't Il twelve year old
boy in the neighborhood who hasn't
his opinion of you, aud he wouldn't
bo slow about expressing 1t either, II II
stranger should ask him for 1t. Every
man is always making character,
whether be is doing anything elso or
not.
II young men wish to succeed in
business, they must not spend their
time and money In simply having n
good time. They must not be discon
tented with the little place in which
they are because they think they are
too big for IL. Tho way to get into a
large place is to ou,grow the one you
are in, grow until ii is so small that IL
will not hold YOU any longer. A man
who sits shrunk up aud worthless in Il
little place, because he thinks it is not
worth while To grow enough " ill
that, has little prospect Of getting in-
TO larger ones. Fill the place that
you are IN. Fit yourself for higher uss-
fulness. To DO that you must do some.
thing besides play, though that may
be innocent IN itself.
Infancy and innocency are synony'
nous. The tiny child does not speak
In vulgar or profane language, does
not drink rum or use tobacco, does moi
cheat or wrong its companicns,-it on
ly grows into these evils as IL learns
them from its elders; and the teacher
Is not unfrequently some member Of
the household, maybe a religious pro-
lessor with his mouth stained with
narcotics and his breath stained with
alcohol, and his words unchaste, and
his habits tricky and uncertain. What
u happy world this world would be II
the innOcency Of childhoOd's tender
years could be carried through age
So while we are training them In the
way they should walk, lot US watch
our own footsteps, and not cut of their
harmless mirth to suit our tastes tina,
have grown sombre with age and care
Let us not mistake gloom Tor pity, or q
broken spirit for gentle submission Il
lawful authority.
Never be ashamed Of your earl.
surroundings because you are living !,
q more refined place at present D'
not be ashamed Of your old father au,
mother when they come 10 your city I,
visit you because their nanpers are |
little old.tashioued aud try 10 smuggl'
them iu and out oil your house Cal
10 your best triends and say 10 them