The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-08
Home
Circle
Depart
nlent

''''li'. ment ride
What sunshine is to flowers, amiability
is to the family. Cross looks and cross
words dwarf and starve the souls of those
around us.
No general rule can be laid down for
the training of children. Take your child
and make your rule to fit him. You can
not make a child fit rule to save your
life.
Don't repress the buoyant spirits of
your children. Half an hour OF merri-
ment within doors, and merriment of a
home blots out the remembrance of many
care and annoyance during the day, and
the best safeguard that they can take with
them into the world is the unseen influ-
ence of bright little home sanctum.
Y X
| Don't be afraid of a little fun at home.
good people. Don't shut up your house
lest the sun should fade your carpets. and
your hearts lest laugh should shake
down few of the musty old cobwebs
that are hanging there. If you want to
ruin your sons, let them think that all
mirth and social enjoyment must be left
at the threshold without when they come
home at night.
The sweet influences of flowers are
source of much pleasure Home does
not seem like home. where there are no
pure, sweet flowers blooming; they cheer
and refresh us beyond measure. Music
is no less important in making home
happy; there should be some kind of a
musical instrument in every home, and if
no instrument can be had, there can be
singing.
Sympathy and love, devotion to the
interests of others, instead of the interests
of self, is an irresistible tide carrying all
before it, sweeping away unkindness and
smallness and jealousy, and carrying those
who are borne on its stream triumphantly
over the shoals and quicksands of daily
worries and vexations which can make
life SO tiresome and so unsatisfying
| M
Each of our lives is an open page, upon
which we are continually making impress
SionS. How cautious should we be that
these impressions be beautiful. Let us
then at eventide scan the page of our life
during the day. discovering all mistakes,
and ever afterward strive to avoid repe-
tition of them.
There is nothing that is so cheering to
a mothers heart, and such a rich recon-
pense for all she has sacrificed and en-
dured, as the kind, affectionate remem-
brance of her children. There is nothing
that can adorn man or woman more than
the tenderness and gentle care they mani
fest towards their aged parents as they
totter on the borders of another world.
How often the feelings are hurt, the
heart almost broken by an unkind word
spoken at time, perhaps, when the heart
was hungry for kindness and love. The
tongue has been the weapon with which
loved ones have been driven out into the
world to seek for what should be the
rightful portion of earth's children-kind
and loving words. On the other hand,
many a heartbroken creature has entered
into the battle of life with renewed efforts,
urged on by kind words of encourage
ment.
''Have faith" Unbelief is the most
unsettled and unstable thing in life. Lack
of faith in one another leads to life of
suspicion, selhshness, without sympathy
and congeniality; 1t destroys the germ Of
happiness, wrecks peace and clouds the
sunshine Of life. 1t estranges hearts that
were made to love, and sewers unions
that have been declared that imam should
not put aSunder." No words mean more
to home. happiness and heaven, than
these, "Be not faithless but believing"
Don't worry about something that you
think may happen tomorrow. because
you may die tonight, and tomorrow will
find you beyond the reach Of worry
Don't worry over thing that happened
yesterday, because yesterday is hun
dred years away. II you don't believe it
try to reach after it and bring it back
Don't worry about anything that is hap
penng today, because today will last only
IS or 20 minutes. Don't worry about
things you can't help, because then there's
no need to worry. Don't worry at all
If you want to be penitent now and then
it won't hurt you bit, il will do you
good. But worry, worry, worry, fret,
fret. fret, why, there's neither sorrow,
penitence, strength, penance, reformation,
hope nor resolution in it.. It's mere
worry.
MOTHER.
Alas! how little do we appreciate our
mothers tender love while she is with us,
though dutiful and devoted to her After
her lips are closed forever, and we know
she will never more lead US by her counsel,
cheer US along the pathway when thorns
pierce us, shadows gather over us, then
we turn memory's pages and feel that il
we only had mother back how many rays
Of sunshine we would bring into her
heart. So many kindnesses we might
have shown her if we had only known
she was going away SO soon TO return no
more How often these thoughts have
passed through my mind since my sweet
old mother left me, and do not doubt
but all who have lost mother feel the
same.
yet oft as look backward o 'er the long
waste of years,
My heart is filled with sudden pain, nv
eyes grow dim with tears,
As call with vain regret and many a
secret smart;
How oft in times ofwaywardness grieved
her tender heart"
| IIi,.1a III. tt,c,,cl,tc e..,.. =. Al