The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-10-23
Home Circle Column.
A Column Dedicated to Tired
Mothers as They Join the
Home ircIe.

There are too many fathers who wi .
tie up the dog at night and turn the
boy loose,
Some women are awful touchy.
A widow has brought am action a
gainst paper which said her hus-
band had gone 10 a happier home,
900
J What is needed most of all in bring
ing up children is example. What
they see and hear and take n by abb
sorpiion in their young years, will,
in most cases. become the ruling trai.
of their lives. Parents rarely full
Iy realize TO what extent they stand
as models to their children.
There Is no surer safeguard against
the temptations that come TO young
men and women than a love for home.
II has brought back and held many
wanderer in a safe place. 1t is
something not only to love home but
to know that you love it-and to
know that you are happier athome
than In any other spot on earth.
900
Some children are brought to under
stand that idleness is a crime, and
that no amount Of fine culture can
make them pass for valuable in the
worlds eye II they are unable to earn
, livelihood, and SO must become hang
crs on for others 10 support, the
better for them. The daughter who
helps her mother cook and scrub,
-, is far more worthy than she who on
, ly paints and plays,and obliges her
overworked father TO pay servant
A that she may not soil her dlin.yhands
- 600 ....
: There Is charity that consis S
a in Withholding words, in keeping back
{ harsh judgments, in abstaining from
!, speech, II TO speak is to condemn.
= Such charity bears the tales Of SLAM
n der, but does not repeat It; listens
p in silence, but forbears comment;
i then locks the unpleasant secret up
in the very depth CT his heart ST.
lence can still rumor; It Is speech
that keeps a story alive, and lends
its vigor. 1t is in the kind and gen
tie heart that charity abides with
the peacefulness Ct dove. There
y It makes is home, and by the were
Withheld, and the Kindly one out
= spoken, we haev the sign of the dow,
Of peace in the heart. For kint
as words are like apples of gold II
n pictures Of silver. ...
i 900
o, Those who habitually correct thei
" children in their faults by whippinI
and boxing them, must not be sur
H. prised when they find them slappin
them in return, and rough and a
en- busive toward one another, The
are simply trying to enforce thei
in own little ideas Of right as they hay
seen their elders do The mothe
- who spends most of her time fussin
-. over the wardrobes of her childre
and herself, starching, ironing an
decorating and making hem fashioI
III able, will find the lessons she taugl
cropping out In dudeism; in yani
81 that prevents the development Of sc
id character and useful habits. II
icR father who smokes and drinks 81
spends his substance In riotous Twin
est will have better luck than mlnag
M ment II his children turn, out
iol- he strong, healthy and honorable G
liens ..
,,u,. CHANGED BY KINDNESS.
md I'VE were married 81 years"
re's man said who had lost his vii
ms and in all that time she never ga
cal IlS a Nl4SS Nblhs DuN 4 ohill hCN
10. forget the first time l scold
rbe her, One morning when we had be
in married two years, found bi
ssia Ton off my shirt threw the gg
TO ment at her and said in rou
rob voice, Sew a button on" she got
ito button and sawed 1t on, sayir
,nie Forgive me husband, / had gre
and deal to do yesterday, and fori
1t; but 1t shall never happen Ngai
rom Her gentle words almost broke ]
\trs heart / could have gone down
nc my knees to ask her forgivene
She made a differnet man of me, 9
the world has been a different pl
since she died" ...
900
OVER DRESS.
ring
Too many mo hers consider ii
children as simply objec.s for the
'oec' play of their own vanity and pri
'ften Little Mary must be kept in p,
arge white clothes all the season, ihor