The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-01-15
Home Circle Column.
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A Column Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as They JOln7The
Home Circle.

the credit; when he is a failure
he finds some woman TO blame fJr
IL.
Cultivate a spirit Of oheerfulness
and gather friends about you by
the magic Of your sunny face,
To give children good instruction
and bad example is but reckoning
10 them with the head TO show them
1.-THE way 10 heaven, while you take
them by the hand and lead them
to perdition.
| II is a little thing to show your
wife how dear she is to you, to
offer manly, lover-like sympathy and
help when she is worn out with
the days cares. Yet these little
things go far to make the home a
nest OF happiness and to keep the
wife what she was In the sunny
Gays of courtship.
There is sweet music in every
home where the heart strings are
touched by gentleness and courtesy.
The mild word, the gentle answer,
the tender act, the patient consid-
Crateness, will touch chords Of
kindness and make sweet melody in
the family as everywhere. A desolate
Greary place is home devoid Of
these little courtesies which are
practiced in the best social life
900
II you wish your children 10 BE-
respectful to you, then you should
lie respectful to them. The boys
end girls who are spoken 10 IN
harsh. rough tone Of voice natur-
ally fall into the habit Of respond.
; ing In the same way, Parental Gig
nifty and authority may be asserted
: with the utmost firmness, and yet
without coarseness and arrogance
In fact II cannot be well asserted
In any other way. A rude IathC
or mother Is likely to have rude
sons and daughters
900
Old age should be well fed, wei
dressed, well housed, free from tn,
the worries Of life and the dis
comforts. 1t should be placid AM
gentle and beautiful. The hear
free from care and the body fire.
from labor, the mind should ex
pand and the aged should should be
come source Of moral strength On
!, wisdom to all about them. The oil
folks should be cared for and hor
cred, and above all they should b
allowed to have their own rooI
" and will, for assuredly they hay
!. lived long enough to know what the
9 want.
10 IA A mother is truly our guardia
70 spirit upon earth; her goodness
ID shields and protects; she walks
= with our infancy, our youth and n
ttring age, even sheltering us wi
her absolving love, and expiatr
our many sins with her blessed pra
ers, and when our mother with I
all her burden of love, her angel
Influence, her sanity care, ceas
:, her beauteous life, how much ,
Lose of home, Of happiness,
" heaven no one can reckon; /
&C. our mother was none but ours, n
hut We only can know how holy she w
/. how sacred her memory must be-
900
It Is difficult for woman W
has led an active life rs housekee
e. to become passive member
her sons or daughters home, s
leke1 her old way best, she Ion
to show the younger generation h
~ they are wasting their resourc
:" Youth will learn only by cxpel len
T. resents interference. And
till there are MISUNDERSTANDING, n
cry unhappiness results. A woman
happier In her own home, with
rn- own income, however small 1t n
Ity, lie, than in the home of anoth
even OF her own son and daught
has though 1t be a home of wea
). and lavish generosity, where IN
49, is an earnest desire to make
comfortable and happy.
900
v ID she not the very sparkle n
sunshine of life?--A woman who
urt hanny because she cant HELM