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

a casting aside of great issues tina
: led to very remarkable discoverie
= and inventions When Colmbu
e laid plan to discover the ney
world, he could not get a hearth!
until he applied to n woman f.
/ help. Woman eQutps man for tn,
- voyage of life. She is seldom
= leader in any project, but meet,
, her peculiar and best attitudes Us
To- q helper, Though man executes a
project, she tits him for 1t, begin.
ming in his childhood A man
discovered America, but a woman
equipped the voyage; so everywhere
man executes The performance,
but woman trains the man.
900 aH.
| Woe to him that smiles not over
a cradle or weeps over a tomb
He who has never tried the COM
partnership of little child, has
ycarelessly passed by one Of the
greatest pleasures of life, as one
passes a rare flower without pluck
ing it or knowing its valhe. Aud
TO you whose homes are blessed
with the little prattlers. have pa
thence and enjoy them while you
may. They will not trouble you
long. Children grow up--nothing on
earth grow so fast as children. II
was but yesterday. and that lad
was playing with tops. buoyant
boy. He is a man and gone now.
There is no more children for him
nor us. Life has claimed him
When a beginning is made, it is
like raveling stocking, stitch
by stitch gives way until all IRE
gChe The house has not n child
in it-there is no more noise IN
the hall-boys rush in pell--mell:
it is very orderly now. There are
80 more skates 2r sleds, bats, balls
or strings scattered around.
things are neat now. There -
no delay now for sleepy folks
there is no longer any task before
lou lie down, or looking after any
body or tucking in the bed clothes
Oh for some chtldrens noise
We wish our neighbors would lend
us an urchin or two to make a
noise in these premises. A home
without children is like a garden
without flowers, We want to be
tired, to be vexed, to be run
over, to hear children Mt work with
all its variety. .....
Now, suppose Christ should come
into your house, first the wife
and the other would feel His pres
ence. Religion almost always be-
gins that way. 1t is easier Tor
women to become Christians than
for us men. They do not fight
50 against God. If women tempted
man originally away from holiness
now she tempts him back. She
may not make any fuss about it,
but somehow everybody in the
fouse kno&s that there is a
change in thy wife and mother. She
chides the children more gently.
Her face lights up sometimes with
an unearthly glow. She goes In
to some unoccupied room for a
little while, and the husband goes
not after her nor asks her why
she was there. He knows without
asking that she has been praying.
Her husband notices that her face
Is brighter than on the days when
years ago, they stood at the mar
rage altar, and he knows that Je-
sus has beel putting upon her brow
a wreath sweeter than the grange
blossoms. She puts the children to
bed, not satisfied with the formal
prayer that they once offered, but
she fingers now and tells them ct
Jesus who blessed little children
and of the good place they all hope
to be at last. And then she kisses
them goodnight with something
that shall, hold on to the boy
after he shall become a man of 40
ar 50 years of age, for there Is
something in a good, kind, loving,
christian mothers kiss that 50
years cannot wipe off the cheek
When one is Inclined TO worry
the remark of an old lady should be
recalled: yes, dearies; I've had
an awful heap of trouble in my
time, and most of it never happen
ed"
More men OF courage Surely that
is what the world needs TO make 1t
better.
Not the courage TO fight and die
on the field of battle, but to live
in ones daily work when there Is
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