The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-01-13
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN
HOME

Home. w nat i ndllONtu name. now
full of enchantment and how dear TO
every heart How it touches every
fibre of the soul and strikes every
chord of the human heart with its
angelic fingers. Nothing but death
can break the spell. What tender as
sociations are linked with home. What
pleasing images and deep emotions it
awakens. 1t calls upon the foudest
memories of life, and opens in our
nature the purest, deepest, richest,
gush of consecrated thought and feel
ing Home, home. There is no place
like home. Home of our childhood.
How affection clings and hovers round
thee with her seraph wings.
WHERE'S MY BOY TONIGHT?
In how many homes is that question
unsolved, and what sorrowful counte-
nance and sad hearts are bordering
over it. Now, reader, it is not your
home referred to by US; it is only that
home where my boy is not home to-
night and while we can almost sur
mise of his whereabouts. yet we dare
not, lest it might prove true. One
thing we know, he is not at home.
Another thing is true, in this world
evil influences Turk on every hand,
and his young, frank, noble heart is
susceptible of being influenced. Why
is he not home tonight? When did his
feet first learn to wander away from
the safe and sacred Influences of home?
Was it not when you had the power
and influence to lead him in the path
Of virtue and right? Did you hope
some how or other, though a tremor
ran through your soul when you first
saw him turn from home to the world
with its unhallowed influences, that he
would soon return? Delusiye hope.
How stand the records? Look at the
wandering sons today, with manhood
all gone, hearts hardened and black
ened by sin, and the aching hearts in
desolate homes, because the wanderer
is wanderer still. Then rest thou
not for a moment, but walk myself in
virtues path, and lead thy boy where
such a character will be formed and
fixed that no evil influence may lure
him from the path of rcctitude and
right and you need not be inquiring,
where is my boy tonight?"
\ FACT PLAINLY STATED
If girls were educated to take care of
themselves they would not be so ready
to marry, and they would marry bet
er, and there would be less trouble
fewer divorces. If they were brought
up to work, they would know how to
use the broom, the buster and the
rolling pin. There are certain quail
ties which are Just as valuable in the
are in the business man-skill intelli-
gence and good sense. When those
qualities are rated a little higher in
women, domestic machinery will run
a good deal smoother, and children
will be brought up to fight their own
battle and earn their own bread. We
all know what that will mean--less
crime, fewerpaupers. The press and
the loom instead of the prison, the
altar, instead of the scatfold. Again
and again the question is asked, can a
woman follow any special calling, and
be a good mother? Love is born, so is
good sense The woman who has those
qualities will be good mother,
whether she is hand worker or head
worker. 1t is not difference in station
or occupation that makes the good
mother ii is the spirit. Furthermore
some of the best mothers, according to
the old standard. women who toll early
and late, who never leave their homes
who deny themselves every comfort
and give up to every right, have the
worst children. They do the hardest
work, they wear the poorest clothes.
they try to save their children from
every hardship, only to learn, when it
is too late, that they have made them
idle and selfish
WHAT A PLANT DID
a little plant was given to a sick
girl. In trying to take care of it the
family made changes in their living.
First, they cleaned the window, that
more light might come to its leaves:
then when not ito cold they would open
the window that fresh air might help
the plant to grow. Next the clean
window made the room so untidy that
they used to wash the floors and walls
and arrange the furniture. more neatly.
This led the father of the family to
mend a broken chair or two, which
kept him home several evenings. After
the work was done he staid at home
instead of spending his leisure hours
at the tavern, and the money thus saw
ed went to buy comforts for them all.
Thus the little plant brought real