The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-14
Home Circle

The path is easy that is oaved will
love.
Better sweetness In the heart thar
greatness in the mind.
1t is Of no consequence how good /;
man is abroad IL he is really mean u
home.
Life is not measured by the length
OF days, but the depth OF deeds
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Home Is the residence OF not merely
the body, but Of the heart; 1t is
the PLACE for the affections to unfold
and develop themselves; for children
to love, aud learn, and play In; fol-
husband and wife to toll smilingly to.
gether, and make life a blessing. The
object OF all ambition should be to be
happy at home; II we are not happy
there we cannot be elsewhere; it is
the best proof OF the virtues OF a fam.
lily to see a happy Preside. ,
Man Is naturally a home.loying ami.
NAL. In fact, most animals are home.
Living. And when a nan ask a wo-
man to share his life, it is usually
taken as a gentle hint that he wants
her to make him a home and take a
sort Of general oversight Of his affairs
and a special oversight Of himself.
He likes to know that she does things
for him just for the reason that She
loves him, and is interested in him
and his we'll being. He loves his home
more ii there is some impress of her
perSonality upon it. He likes best
the meal she prepares for him. or
course, he says very little perhaps
nothing-of al this, heing a man.
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In too many families the mother as
Sumes the care OF everything and her
daughters are bat genteel loungers iii
the household. The work which could
be SO easily and quickly done ii each
bore a share. is left for the hands al
ready weakened by heavy burdens, and
when at last the poor household drudge
dies at her post, she is remembered
with pity not unmixed with contempt
because she resigned the post cf ruler
OF the household to become it's slave.
and her daughters are left to ruin
other homes with idleness and ignQF-
ance. But are there a0 such daugh.
fefs anohHg Our Households.
A man and wife when irritated will
often say things to each other for
viii IN they are sorry the next morning,
but pride often keeps them from con-
Tossing their fanltS, and the little dit.
ferenceS grow until a divorce suit or
an assault and battery case results.
When you have made a mistake, be
man or waman enough to ask forgive
ness, and you will sail along on flowery
beds of ease instead Of jolting over the
rocky beds of discOrd.
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No boy, no girl. can ever come to be
utterly bad who remembers only love
and tenderness and sweetness as asso-
with father and mother in the
old time home. Give them manly and
womanly example, give them training,
give them the inspiration II devoted
ives. give them these higher deeper
Do not care SO much Al to
whether you are accommodating money,
70 that you can leave them a fortune.
We really believe that the chances are
against that being q blessing for a boy.
But leave them an accumulated for
tune OF memories and Inspirations and
and hopes, 81 that they are
rich IN brain and heart and soul.
Then Il you happen to leaye them Al
fortune besides, II they have all these,
the fortune will be shorn Of Its posi-
bilities Of evil, and will become an in.
strpment of higher and nohler good.
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After all that has been said about
rare treasures of art and nature that
may lend attraction to q home and its
surroundings, it remains that the fair
est home ornaments are bright, joyous
faces: and where these are wanting all
else goes for little. Bright and joyous
faces always accompany warm and low
ing hesrts which alt true home makers
must possess. Hence all who intend.
making homes should look carefully
into their own hearts; for only when
these are right can they expect their
home-naking to prove satisfactory.
Warm hearts make bright and cheer