The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-19
Home Circle Column.
A OIumu Dedicated to Tired
Mothers as They Join the
Home Circle.


hit they have no mothers TO forgive
them.
Young people should remember that
you cannot trust man simply becaus
you see the golden rule pinned on the
front of his hat.
These days We sit on the sunny
side OF the car, walk on the sunny
side OF the street and SIT In the sunny
window OF the house. Let us also
walk on the sunny side OF life and see
the sunny side ofthe dlsjointed things
OF life.
Supplement what the children learn
at school with reading lessons at
home. Reading aloud is good, will
improve the reading Of the reader,
and give information TO members Of
the home circle who may be obliged
to work with their hands in the ey-
ening.
When tempted to criticise the food
on the home table, remember Che adj
age that silence is golden. Criticism
is never so exasperating to the house
keeper as at the table. where in spite
Of hard work and worry, things will
occasionally appear that are not as
she had planned.
THE COMFORT OF BEING A BOY.
There Is a comfort in being a boy
IN che amount OF work he can get rio
OF doing. Il is something astonish.
ing how slow he can go on an errand
, perhaps, he could't explain TO him.
, self why, when he is sent to thS
neighbours for yeast, he stops t
stone frogs. He is not exactly cruel
but he wants TO see II he can't hi
EN-. 1t is a curious fact about boys
that two will be great deal slowe
|. about doing anything than one. Boy
have a power OF helping each othe
do nothing. But say what you will
about the general usefulness OF
boy, a farm without boy woul
: soon come to grief. He is Away
10 demand. In the first place he
to do all the errands, go to tn
store, potsoffice. and carry all sort
r OF messages. He would like to hay
T. as many legs as a wheel has spoke
a and rotate in the same way, This
sometimes tries to do. He has
" natural genius for combining pleas
l. ure and business.
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10 A TOAST TO GENTLEMEN.
The following toast to gentlemen
n. handed in by lady contributor:
Bless EN-! They halve our Joy
they double our sorrows, they treb
our expenses, they quadruple OF
cares, theye excite our magnanimit
/. they increase our self-respect, wax,
!. our enthusiasm, arouse our affection
control our properly. and out-maneu
90 er us in everything. This world Is
dreary world without them. In ia
may say without prospect OF 81
cessful contradiction, that witho
:, them this wouldn't be much of
world anyhow. We love them, a
y the dear things can't help 1t;
control them and The precious fello
don't know II. As husbands tn
10 are convenient, though not alwa
~ on hand: as beaux they are by
means matehless. They are M
-. agreeable as xvisitors, handy at ST
fairs. and indispensable at oyster
Icons. They are splendid for eseo
for some other fellows wife or
ter, and as friends they are bet
than women. AS fathers they
inexpressibly grand. A man may
failure in business, wreck
constitution, not enough TO boast
as beauty, nothing as a wit, less Il
nothing as legislator for wome
rights, and not brilliant as a mem
R. of the press, but II our father
as overlook his shor comings and co
I'm. his peccadilloes with the divine m
as tie of charity. Then, as our husbai
lad. how we love to parade them as pa
EN- CONS! In the sublime language
the poet:
Doc Well lie for EN-,
all Well cry for EN-
And If We could we'd fly for z
Hill We'd anything but die for EN-,
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red STARTING IN LIFE.