The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03

that it is not manly or noble to
make yourself appear tough? If
you are tough people will find it out
soon enough without your trying to
make it so prominent. A gentle
man is always respected by gen.
tleman, while a tough is respected
By toughs.
Do you know that boys are
much more particular who they 60
with than girls are? You may
think this is strange statement, but
it is So. A girl will 60 on the
streets with boy that gets drunk,
but if a boy finds out that the girl
gets drunk he won't go with her.
We wish our girls would be as par
ticular about whom they 60 with as
the boys are.
Be as careful to keep the weeds
out of the minds of your children
as you are to keep them out of
your garden. Butremember some
thing will grow there. If you
don't plant them with good grain,
the tares will take root in spite of
you. Keep a library of good clean
books, and by all means keep your
home paper before them.
If young boys and girls could
only understand how happy it
makes their parents when they are
doing we'll and conducting them
selves like ladies and gentlemen, it
seems to us they would make a
greater effort than they do to avoid
evil deeds and acts. A greater
part of the pleasures In this life, to
parents, is found in the success and
welfare of their children going out
of their home. And much of the
misery is caused by waywardness
and misdeeds of sons ahd daught-
erS.
If there is one thing above an
other a young man should be
ashamed of doing, it is loafing with
out aim, purpose or profit, on the
streets or in stores, day after day
all week If you have nothing to
do, stay at home-a part of the
time at any rate. No young man
with any self respect will content
himself with aspiring to no higher
reputation than that of a chronic
loafer and a store box magnate.
Nothing will so blunt the higher
faculties of the mind as inactivity;
and no inactivity is so baneful and
maIevolent in its effect as the vol
untary idleness termed loafing.
Let us say to benedicts, young
and old, it you did but show an
ordinary civility toward those COM
mon articles of housekeeping-your
wives-if you would give them
hundred and sixteeth part of the
compliments you almost choked
them with before you married,
fewer women would seek for other
sources of affection. Praise your
wife, then, for all the good quail
ties she has and you may rest as
sured that her deficiencies are
counter balanced by your own.
We have great respect for the
woman who knows how to spare
herself. for the one who knows
when she has enough. We have
respect for the one who has the
courage to say, 81 am not strong
enough to sew for the heather and
do my home duties also. and my
home is first" and who dares set in
her house and see others conduct
sewing societies. This is no plea
for iddleness, or for selfshness that
is like a canker to the soul, only a
plea for knowledge of ones one
powers and limitations, for a
courage according to the convict
ions, for judgment that is en-
lightened and generous, not only
towards others but towards her.
self.
1t is the daily life that tests US,
the manner of men we are. 1t is
not our prayers, it is not our pro-
fession, but it is in the tone of
daily intercourse and conduct that
decides how we stand. The little
homeiy graees; the cheerful, every
day amenities; the Christ-like
spirit uttering itself, not so much in
conscious act as in an unconscious
influence; notso much in deed as
in that subtle aroma which, with
out name, excludes from the sanity.
soul, to equals add interiors, to