The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-12-25
Home Circle Column.
A Column Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as They Join The
Home Circle.

There is many a young man proud
Of his mother, who would strike In
OF his mother, who would strike IN
suit her, yet who, by his own evil
doings and bad habits Is sharpening
a dagger to plunge through the moth.
er's heart.
The well informed woman may gen
orally be known, not so much by wha
she tells you, as by what she does
not tell you; for she is the last
to take pleasure in mere gassir, or
make vulgar allusion to the appear
ance, dress or personal habits of her
friends and neighbors.
900
Well assorted marriages are essen
tjal to good homes, This is natures
law in the case. To violate 1t Is
to bring swift punishment on the
heads Of the violators, as we'll as
to bring curse upon posterity. The
husband and wife who are not suited
to each other lead cat and dog lives
Their children are unwelcome and
grow up without care. The home
atmosphere is not suited to the
healthg yrowth of virtue andd re-
finement. What is the result? A
family Of ill-natured, Quarrelsome,
unrefined children. They marry and
carry to the homes the same atmos-
phere and rear other families like
unto the ones which they were rails
ed. The wonder is that there are
as many agreeable and cultured peo-
pie In the world as there are.
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What should children be taught
to believe in order that, when they
grow up they may find that later
experience does not alter what they
learnt when younger? We must teac'
them that, beyond what they feel
ard see and touch, unselfishness,
giving up their inclinations these
sre tire best things in the world i
Is true that goodness and kindness
have no faces that we can kiss;
nc hands that we can clasp; but these
are certainly there, In the midst of
our work and our play. And this
goodness and kindness which, except
in outward acts, we cannot see,
is something which existed before we
were born. 1t is from this that we
have all the pleasant things of this
world; the flowers, the sunshine.
the moonlight-all these were given
us by some great kindness and good
Less which we have never seen at
all. And this goodness and love
ore that great Power from which all
things come.
o D
According to the idea Of many Of
the rising generation a young man
should learn to lie, to flirt to cheat,
to swear, to drink, to play billiards,
to swagger in the streets, to live
without work, to ogle every pretty
girl he meets, to treat his elders
with disrespect. to talk loud In the
presence of others, to put on style
whether he can afford it or not, to
BOAST of the feminine conquests he
has made, to have every slang term
on his tongues end, to gossip with
his chums about his lady hcqusin-
tances, to attract all the attention
TO himself that he possible can, to
talk like a loafer and q fop instead
of quiet, sensible man, to call his
father the "old man" and his moth
er the "old woman to think lily
Of every woman he sees, and to
speak Ill Of her every chance he gets,
to turn up his nose at those quiet,
sober, Industrious young men who
DO not train in his crowd, to treat
his sister without any sort Of regard,
to treat her like an ill-bred loafer
Instead of like gentleman
Here is your picture, fast young
man true to life. Look at it. How
do you like It? What have these
characteristics made Of you? What
las the future In store for you? I'm
less you change your course most
ladically-Ruin.
There are Just as many future mil
ljonaires backing boots and selling
papers today as there ever were.
Every generation of successful men
is possessed with the idea that
either it had exceptional chances, the
like Of which the world will never
know again. But the world goes on
wealthy men die and more men
Of equal or greater wealth succeed
them.
There never yet was a period in
the worlds history when pluck and
energy and industry, coupled with
shrewd business sense, could rot
climb the rugged steep which leads