The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-11-13

II is not favorable omen TO see
a man smoking corn cob pipe while
his wife milks the COW.
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II you have bitter pill 10 take,
gulp It down, don't chew it. So
Iaany people chew their pills, and oh
how bitter.
It has been said that TO have the
children in your power would be TO
control the destiny of the world but
give us the mothers and let them
realize their power, and we will have
the children.
Every honest prayer, that is breath
ed, every cross that is carried, every
trial that Is we'll endured, every coed
work for our fellow-men lovingly don
every little task that is conscientious
ly performed for Chrisfs glory, helps
10 make christian character beautiful,
and to load It's boughs with ZAP
pies Of gold" for Gods baskets Of
silver"
Parents keep your boys off The
streets, especially after dark. You
know not what annoyance these little
fellows are, besides they learn II
kinds OF meanness, picking up all
the slang phrases uttered by older
boys who have forgotten the prayers
taught them at their mothers knee
when they, too, were Innocent little
tots like your own boys now. II YOU
have nice beautiful yards, allow your
boys 70 play in them, never scolding
them for their merry laughter, for It's
better for 10 be annoyed at home THAI
to have them mixed up in an ugly af-
fair on the street of which you know
nothing until 1t has grown cold on ev
cry ones tongue. If you value their
education as you should, you will
keep your boys off the street, where
10 evil association will corrupt their
morals, .
There is no good reason why n
man should needlessfy put his cwn
wife TO the trouble Of wiping up The
tracks, when he takes great pains 10
clean his feet before crossing his
neighbours Threshold; neither is 1t
consistent tat we women should be
too severe on our own husband and
son for little carelessuess when we
assure our callers with the most
gracious Of smiles, that 1t isn't (
the slightest consequence.
COURTESY AT HOME.
Good breeding, like charity, rhonld
legin at home. The day is past wher
cLild used to rise when their par
ents entered the room where they
wdre and stand until they received
permission to sit But the mistake il
now made usually in the other
direction in allowing to small boys
and girls too much license 10 disturb
the peace of the household. We Thin
the best way to train children II
courtesy would be to observe 10.
ward them scrupulous politeness
We would go 50 far as TO ray
that we should make 1t as much {
point to listen to children without
interrupting them and TO answer
them sincerely and respec fully ~
If they were grown up, And, indeed
many Of their wise, quaint sayings
are far better worth listening :,
than the sereotyped commonplace:
OF the morning callers. OF course
to allow uninterrupted chatter wouit
be to surrender the repose of III,
household, but it is very easy, i
children are themselves scrupuleusl!
respected, to teach them in turn
scrupulously to respect the Conven
fence of others, and to when 10 ;all
and when TO be silent.
If q child is brought up in tht
constant exercise of courtesy TOWARD
brothers and sisters and playmetes
as we'll as toward parents and uncle
and aunIts, 1t will have little lef
for them to learn as they grow
older.
The best brought up family of chill
dren we ever knew were educated cl
the principle of always eommendini
thJm when 1t was possible 70 dc
so, and let silence be the reproof O
any wrong doing in which was mo-
really serious. We have heard In,
chiidlen of this household, when thei
mother ad failed to say any WORD
of commentator after some socia
occasion, ask as anxiously as pos.