The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-10-30
EVENING REVERIES
CRUDE THOUGHTS OF INTEREST
TO THE HOME CIRCLE.

A Column Dedicated to Tired Moth
err as They Join the Loved One:
Around the Fireside.
For a wife, take the daughter o.
a good mother.
Leave your homes with loving
words, they may be your last.
Treat your wife as though sht
were a queen and that will hell
make her one.
| When man Is success he claims
the credit; when he is a failure hf
finds come woman to blame for it.
We are inclined to think thai
heaven will be given to those who are
trying to make a heaven on this
earth.
We are almost out Of home girls;
girls that are mothers right hand;'
girls that can cuddle the little ones
next best to mamma, and. smooth
out the tangles in the domestic skein
when things get twisted; girls that
father takes. comfort in for some
thing better than beauty, and big
brothers are proud of for something
that outranks the ability Of leading
dude.
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 consider
ateness, will touch chords Of kind
ness and make sweet melody in the
family as everywhere. A desolate,
dreary place is home devoid of
those little courtesies which are prac-
ticed in the best social life.
1t Is the little foxes that destroy
the vines in home life. We have
known men who would lay down
their lives for their wives and chill
dren, who would almost have fits
of apoplexy over button of a
shirt or mislaid paper, There are
women who would die at the stake
for their husbands, but who have an
almost unconscious habit of nag
ging the poor man from morning
till night. Strange, isn't 1t?
A Woman's Work.
Could anything be better illus
tration Of the way women do their
work as compared with the way men
do theirs, than to look over viii
lage OF say, thousand families, on
Monday? In thousand little kitch-
ems a thousand women would be seen
thrusting wood into a thousand lit
tie cook stoves, heating thousand
little wash boilers, bending their
backs over a thousand little wash
boards, and hanging their clothes on
thousand little clothes lines. If,
by some singular social revelation
the men of such village were to
undertake to do the work there frs.
step would be to get stock COM
pany, ainvest capital in building and
machinery, 30 organize the work
that about a half dozen men would
do the work for the whole town, re-
ceive good salaries therefor, and the
rest of the men would go about their
own business on Monday just as on
any other days.
Home.
A happy home is the brightest spot
on earth that the eye Of God looks
down upon. Love and peace In his
home sends sunshine around the man
wherever he goes; disorder and
trouble there is misery everywhere
There are few worries of life which
man cannot now and then shake
of, but who can shake himself free
from the skeleton in the closet
from the worry of the household, q
blister on the heart. A day Will
tell how many a man carried that
with him without wincing down to
the grave. When husband and wife
are helpmate to each other In the
best sense; when order and love and
goodness prevail in the house, then
the man who has a hard battle in
life to fight can leave his struggles
behind him when he enters there
With all our faults We are the most
home loving of people and that is
the reason why we are the greatest
of people. Whatever helps home life
is a national blessing; what ever
hurts home life is a national curse
and the greatest curse that can
touch these blessings Is what would
tamper with the peace and bless
edness of our homes.
Sensitive People.
Sensitive people seem to enjoy
sensitiveness. They are always on
the lookout for something to give
them pain. They are much like a
cat would be with a tail forty feet
long, dragging around on the floor
ready to be tramped upon. We
are crowded pretty thick upon life's
great thoroughfare, and can't well
help elbowing each other as we pass
along. Ninety-nine times out OF
every hundred no harm is intended
but those sensitive people. who have
the longest and sharpest elbows OF
anybody, are always attributing a
motive to every accidental jug they
get. The fact is, personal impor-