The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-05-08
Home Circle Column
A Column Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as they Join the
Home Circle.

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And In hushed and tender tone,
Ask each others full forgiveness
For the wrong that each has. done;
Should you wonder at this custom
At the ending OF the day,
Eye and voice would quickly answer,
1T was once Our mothers way"
Il our home be bright and CHEEKY.
II 1t hold a welcome true,
Opening wide its doors of greeting
To the many--not the few;
II we share our Fathers bounty
With the needy. day by day.
It's because our hearts remember
This was ever mothers way.
Sometimes when our hearts grow
weary
Our task seems very long;
When our burdens look too heavy,
And we deem the right all wrong,
Then we gain a new fresh courage,
As we rise 20 proudly say;
Let us do our duty brayely,
This was our dear mothers way"
Thus we keep her memory precious,
While we never cease TO pray,
That at last when lengthening shadow
Mark the evening OF life's day,
They may find US waiting calmly
To go home our mothers way.
900
Woman has yet TO learn the purify
ing and blessed influence she may ga I
and maintain over the intellect and
affections OF the human mind. Though
she may not teach from the por-
tico nor thunder from the forum, in
her secret retirement she may form
and send forth the sages that shall
govern and renovate the world Thou.
she may not GRID herself for bloody
oonflict, nor sound the trumpet Of
war, she may array herself IN the
panopy Of heaven and send the thrill
OF benoyelence through thousand
youthful hearts. Though she may
not enter the list In legal collision,
nor sharpsa her intellect amld the
passions and conflicts Of men, she
may teach the law Of Kindness, and
hush up the dlscords and conflicts OF
lite. Though she may not be clothed
Ga the ambassador OF heaven nor min
letter at the altar OF God, as secret
angel Of mercy she may teach His
win. and cause TO ascend the humble
but most accepted sacrifice.
900
So great is the mind OF a sweet
minded woman on those around her
that II is almost cloudless It is to
her that we all go In seasons OF sor-
row and sickness for help and COM
fort; one soothing touch OF her
kindly hand works wonders upon the
feverish child: a few words dropped
from her lips in the ear of her sorrow
stricken sister do much TO raise the
load OF grief that is bowling It's
victim down to the dust in anguish,
The husband comes home worn out
with the pressure Of business and
feeling irritable with the world in
general, but when he enters the coy
sitting room and sees tho blaze OF fire
and meets his wifes smiling face, he
suceumbs In moment to the sooth-
ing influences which act as the balm
of Gilead to his wounded spirits that
are wearied by the stern realities of
life. The rough school, boy flies In
r. rage from the taunts of his
companions to find solace in his
mothers smile; the little one full of
grief with its large troubles finds a
haven Of. rest on its mothers breast;
and so one might go on with instance
after instance of the influence that
sweet minded woman has in the
social life with which she is connect
ed Beauty is an insignificant pow
err when compared with hers,
600
There is no sadder sight than q
woman who marrying a man to save
him, finds that she has failed in what
she has sought and lost her own life
In the struggle. Have We not all
seen the gradual degradation Of the
woman who is bound to a dlssipated
man? She loses hope and faith.
Shame and despair cover with gar
ment. II she lives with him her
conscience is wrung with the horror
Of bringing FORTH children who shall
be like him. However tender and re-
fined her nature, daily contact with