The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-02-12
Home Circle Column.
A Column Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as they Join The
Home Circle.

The ideal husband and the ideal
wife are purely creations of the
brain.
Happiness is perfume that one
cannot shed over another without a
few drops falling on ones self.
Nothing is more charming TO see
than young girl, simple, natural
gentle, refined, unaffected and pol
ished in mind and manner. Children
should be early taught pollteness;
not politeness and manners to put
on the best dress. True politeuess
Is that which springs from nice
mind mad kind heart, which refus-
les to wound others by acts of dis
courtesy. True politeness Is rare
and more valuable perhaps, than IS
often imagined.
900
OF course we love our own best
then why not show It? Why be alta
BILE and courteous to everyone except
those to whom we owe the most
1t is often owing to thoughtlessness
and carelessness, but that makes 81
zone the less criminal. Bickering
rna strife which goes on in many
households is disgraceful, and
from the inevitable unhappiness 1
causes. There are many ladies' anC
gentlemen outwardly polished and
SRreeable, the favorites of society
and the life of all social gathering
they attend, who indulge in manner
at home that would disgrace a saw
age They seem perfectly transform
ed. Company manners are at Las
hut very thin veneer, the tru
nature Is apt to come to the ruTfac
and the keen observer soon detect
the sham,
SUNSHINE. .....
Sunshine in the lives and soul
OF people is just as potent in IN
realm of the home as the sunshin
that drives darkness from our worl
and brings that warmth which is ei
sential to life and growth in tn
vegetable kingdom. There is cor
vtncing and viviRing power IN sol
Sunshine; for as has been well GAIT
men and women, youth and children
seek the friendship of the sunny
faced. All social circles WELDON
cheerfuness. A sunny face Is a
open pleasure TO hearts and HON
Byitburdens are lightened. car
cispelled, sorrow banished, and hoI
made to reign triumphant whel
fear and doubt, and despondenc
feld high carnival Your own il
will be sweetened, your own jo!
heightened, by your perennial, hea'
eh-lighted, sunny face.
900
THE BEAUTY OF PLAIN LlVIN'
We love TO see people live we
says thoughtful writerand 10 Dire
respectfully, and enjoy themselve
but there Is happy mean in .
: these things, and when that IS pas
! ed in the direction Of eXtravagant
| the people distress and nseldve thel
selves and diminish their ubili
I to do good For the sake Of kee
y ing up the styles, people live I
above their income, haress ther
selves with debt. wear themselv
J out, and keep themselves in co
u slant nervous strain by giving fas
ionable dinners, fashionable entt
PERTAINING, and making fashionat
C, calls. How much better is
l. plain, quiet, Christian home whe
g all is peace and cordiality, the neig
le bors heartily welcome 10 come II
e. go at will, and freed from pesteril
}. senseless conventionalities of fas
ionable life. Why should our cart
Il ~ life, which at best cannot cont
ue a hundred years, be fretted n
burdened and worn out prematur,
by vain efforts to ape the mannt
of the idle, irreligious, Belf-seekii
rich devotee of pleasure? God J
'e ltut us here for a nobler p,
70 pose than this, and those do W
u who strive to place His service abe
. oil else,
Of
~ NEGLECT OF HOME DUTIES
Many of our business men ;
Ve tempted to neglect their home dut
y How often is 1t that tho store a
al the home seem to clash, but III,
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