The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-05-06
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uNArrRAcrIvE HOMES.


Winter has especial temptations in the
fact that many homes are peculiarly un-
attractive at this season. Ii the summer
months the young man can sit out on he
steps, or he can have a bouquet in the
vase on the mantel, or the evenings being
so short, soon after gaslight he wants to
retire anyhow But there are many pa
rents who do not understand how 10
make the long winter evenings attractive
TO their children. II is amazing to us
that so many old people do not under
stand young people. To hear some OF
these parents talk YOU would think thev
had never themselves been Young and
bad been born with spectacles on. Oh,
! 1t is dolorous for young people 10 sit in
the house from 7 to IL O'Clock at night
! and to hear parents groan about their all
ments and the nothingness of this world.
! The nothingneSS of this world? How
dare you talk such basphemy9 1t took
| God six days to make this world, and he
has allowed g 1000 years to hang upon his
| holy heart and this world has shone on
you and blessed you and caressed YOU
Tor these fifty or seventy years, and vet
you dare talk about the nothingness of
this world Why, it is a magnificent
world. We do not believe in the whole
universe there is a world equal TO it ex
cept it be heaven You cannot expect
your children to stay in the house these
long winter evenings to hear YOU denounce
tins star lighted, sun warmed, shower
baptized, flower strewn, angel watched,
God inhabited planet
Oh, make your home bright Bring in
the violin or the picture. 1t does not re-
! a Salor,, |, |,
chased silver or gorgeous upholstery to
make happy home. All that is wanted
is fathers heart, a mothers heart, in
sympathy with young folks.
Verify the mother is the angel spirit of
home. Her tender warnings over the
cradle of her infant babe, her guardian
care of the child and youth. and her COM
panionship with the man of her love and
choice, make her the personal ceRter of
the interest, the hopes and the happiness
of the family. Her love never cools,
never tires, never sleeps, but ever glows
and burns with increasing ardor and with
sweet and holy incense upon the altar Of
nome devotion. Even when she is gone
to her last rest IL santed mother i'm
heaven is always a mightier influence
over her wayward husband or child, than
when she was present. Her departed
spirit still hovers over the home and
draws the family by unseen cords to her
self in heaven.
The great want of this world is men;
men who are honest, sound from center
to circumference, true to hearts core;
men who. will condemn wrong in friend
or foe, in themselves as well as others;
men whose consciences are as steady as
the needle to the pole; men who stand
for the right if the heavens totter and the
earth falls; men that never flag nor finch;
men that have courage without shouting;
men IN whom the currents everlasting life
run still, deep and strong; men who do
not cry or spoil their voices 10 be heard
on the streets but who will not fall or be
discouraged, till judgment be set on the
earth; men who will not lie; men who are
not too lazy to work nor too proud to be
poor; men who hold their places and
keep them; men who are willing to eat
what they have paid for.
Suppose you are given TO the habit of
profanity. You enter into conversation
with man who never swearS or in other
words, a gentlemen. BY and by you be-
gin TO see that he is the superior man.
Your own remarks have a tame, fiat,
feeble sound to your ears. Your cheeks
begin to burn with a sense of your friends
excellence. NoAr pert little drama
sounds coarse and drop out of your sen.
tences, ashamed to remain in the COM
DanV of good honest English words
until you discover that you are carrying
on your part of the conversation without
swearing you feel easier, your intellectual
stature Increases by a foot.