The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-28
Home Circle

See If 1t is not true that your wife
is working more hours than you do.
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One of the graveSt breaches OF de
cOrum is the exposure OF the faults OF
husband or wife by the one. who should
shield them.
Look cheerful. Put on that neatly
patched dress, meet John with a smile,
kiss him when he comes home and
watch how o u he will prefer home
to the down town store.
$50
Should a man speak to a neighbDr
in the S%tentOrian tones he often uses
to his children, a knUck-dOwn would
enSue. A courteous tone to d child is
as essential as a courteous tone TO a
neighbOr.
Where is home? In a mansion with
ureS OF art, in Wonder house, in
try lane shaded by the tree? In un
pretentiouS peasant hamlet with
matched roof and lime-waShed walls?
Home is where mother lives. And
whether you be prince or peasant, one
of the sweetest spots OH earth is the
abode Of your mother.
Open your blinds by day and light
bright fires by night. illuminate your
rooms. Hang pictures upon your walls.
Put books aud newspapers upon your
tables. Have music and entertain
ing games. Danish demons of dullneSS
and apathy, and bring in mirth and
good cheer. Invent occupation for
your sons. Stimulate their ambitions
in worthy directions. While you
make home their delight, fill them
with higher purposes than mere pleas
ure. Whether they shall pass boy
hood and enter upon manhood with
refined tastes and noble ambitions
depends on you. With exertion and
right means a mother may have more
influence over the destiny of her boys |
than any other influence whatever.
In The cities girls are beginning to |
take the place of boys ia offices, and
the reaSoG assigned for the change is
n that boys VIII do well to consider. |
The old-fashiOned office boy, who
SwearS, smokes cigarettes and is i'm
pertinent usually, and reads dime
novels 10 a corner, or lodfS when he Is
sent on an important errand, is fast
disappearing, and 1t is predicted that
IN the curse of time the office girl
will have taken his place. No one
wants an impertlncnt, staggering,
cigarette smoking boy about an office,
or as a clerk, bOOkeeker or stenuy.
rapher. Girls do not acquire these
detestable habits and are, therefore,.
getting the places.
Marriage is not necessarily a bless
ing. 1t may be the bitterest curse.
1t may sting like an adder, and bite
like a serpent Its bower is as often
made of thOrnS as roses. 1t blasts as
many expectation as it realizes. Ev-
improper marriage is a living mis-
Try. an undying death. An lily
mated human pair is the most woeful
picture Of wlckednesS that is presented
n the book of life; and yet such pic
lures are plenty. But a proper mar
'lage, a true interior, soul-linked
lnlon is a h~leSsedueSS, unrivaled in
)eaCty. A true marriage is the souls
1den. 1t is the visiting place of an !
'elS. 1t is q given to words TO ex-
the refinement of pleasure. the {
Ielicacy OF JOY and the Astounding T
ILLNESS of satisfaction that those feel :
whom God hath joined in a high mar
lage of spirit. Such a union is the
highest school Of virtue, the SOULS
Onvent, where the vestal fires of pur-
are kept burning. May only such
lappy unions attend the young men :
nd maidens Of our vicinity who NAV S
ven now be planning their wedding 4
armcntS. b
Every woman can and should keep s
LADY hood with her always-wber- a
YER she is. whatever she does. it mat r
ers not. Some women seem to do
most mental house service grace 8,
lily. They most surely are ladies in o.
very sense Of that blessed word. p
who dignifes herself, digniies her b!
'ork. and vice versa. In the kitchen. =
IN the parlor, her manner and con-
erSation should be the same. Atrue
is as much a lady washing her pt
inner dishes, preparing the vegeta- sy
les for dinner, cleaning lamps and isv
rubbing floors, as when she is bend. is
g over her embroidery frame or m
'sel In the pleasant sitting room. If in
le is so unfortunate as to possess 2. C(
rvant she will use refined language Sc
gentle a voice in speaking to her as
uses in her reception room enter
iLing the most cultured among her
lends. .,
Gu
The Girl We Ike or