The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-02-12
Home Circle Column.
A Column Dedicated To Tired
Mothers as They Join The
Home Circle.

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The ideal husband and the ideal
wife are purely creations of the
brain.
Happiness is a perfume that one
cannot shed over another without ;
few drops falling on ones self.
900
Nothing is more charming to set
than young girl, simple, natural
gentle, refined, unaffected and pol.
ished In mind and manner. children
should be early taught poilteness;
not politeness and manners to PIT
on the best dress. True politei,ess
Is that which springs from nice
mind mad kind heart, which refus
es to wound Others by acts of dis.
courtesy. True politeness IS rare
and more valuable perhaps, than /.
often imagined
OF course we love our own best
then why not show it? Why be alta
Bile and courteous to everyone excep
those to whom we owe the most
1t is often owing to thoughtlessnes
and carelessness, but that makes s
rome the less criminal. 8ickerin,
Cna strife which goes on in man!
households is disgraceful, AM
from the inevitable unhappiness
causes. There are many ladies an
gentlemen outwardly polished AM
sereeable, the fayorites OF society
and the life of all social gathering
they attend, who indulge in manner
at home that would disgrace a say
age They seem perfectly transform
ed. Company manners are at lsas
Lut a very thin veneer, the tru
nature Is apt to come to the ruIfac
and the keen observer soon detect
the sham, .
SUNSHINE. .
Sunshine in the lives and soul
OF people is Just as potent in III
realm of the home as the sunshin
that drives darkness from our worl
and brings that warmth which is e
sential TO life and growth in tn
vegetable kingdom There is col
v,ncing and viyifying power IN sol
sunshine, for as has been well Bai
men and women, youth and childre
seek the friendship of the sunny
faced. All social circles WELDON
cheerfuness. A sunny face is a
open pleasure to hearts and hon
Byitburdens are lightened. raI
cispelled, sorrow banished, and hol
made to reign triumphant whei
fear and doubt, and despondenG
feld high carnival. Your own il
will be sweetened, your own jo!
heightened, by your perennial, hea
eh-lighted, sunny face.
900
THE BEAUTY OF PLAIN LIVIN'
We love TO see people live we
says a thoughtful writer,and TO Dire
especially, and enjoy themselvt
but there Is happy mean in
these things, and when that is pas
ed in the direction Of extravaganr
the people distress and nsellve thel
selves and diminish their ubili
to do good. For the sake Of kee
ing up the styles, people live +
above their income, haress ther
selves with debt, wear themsclv
out, and keep themselves in CO
slant nervous strain by giving fas
ionable dinners, fashionable entt
PERTAINING, and making fashionat
), calls. How much better is
: plain, quiet, Christian home whe
. all is peace and cordially, the neig
3 bors heartily welcome 10 come u
I. go at will, and freed from pesteriI
+ senseless conventionalities Of fas
ionable life. Why should our cart
: ~ life, which at best cannot cont
ne a hundred years, be fretted n
burdened and worn out premature
ty vain efforts to ape the name
of the idle, irreligious, Belf-seekil
rich devotee of pleasure? God j
rut us here for a nobler pr
pose than this, and those do W
= who strive to place His service abe
= oil else,
NEGLECT OF HOME DUTIES
Many of our business men q
. tempted to neglect their home duti
: How often is 1t that tho store a
u the home seem to clash, but tn,
ought not to be any collision
. IL often the case that the father