The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-25
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A well born man is always a mothers
boy, and all great men have not been
afraid to be called mothers boy.'
| There is charity which consists in
withholding words, in abstaining from
speech If to speak is to condemn Such
charity hears the tale of SANDER but does
! not repeat it: listens in silence, but for
bears comment; then locks the unpleas-
ant secret up in TIE very depths of the
heart Silence can still rumor. 1t is
speech that keeps story alive and lends
vigor TO it.
The poor man imagines that SIoo. 900
would make him man without annov-
ance tor the balance of his life, and the
man with three or four millions suicides
because of the loss of one million. Your
misery is mostly in your mind Remem-
Der that the picture appears verv much
according to the glass through which YOU
see it. and yet the lines Of the picture are
fixed and the modifying power of the
glass is limited as compared to your con-
| troll over your emotions. Be Circum.
stanced as you may, there will be enough
ragged edges in your life to keep YOU in
a perpetual fret and fume if you so will it.
Within limited bounds it is not what YOU
have, or lack, it is not what you are or
would like to be, that makes you cheerful
and a source of happiness to those who
must be with you. 1t is the way YOU take
things; power within yourself, almost
independent of all external affairs and
surroundings There is no position and
no station in life in which many men and
women would not be thoroughly miser-
able.
The foundation of society rests on its
! home. The success of the home rests on
the wives. Therefore, first of all teach
our girls how to be successful wives.
Begin early to train their character.
Teach them that jealousy is an immortality
and gossip vice. Train them to keep
the smallest promise sacredly and to
| speak OF people only as they would speak
to them Teach them to look for the
best qualities in everyone they meet. and
to notice other peoples faults only to
avoid them Train them to do small
things well and to delight in helping
others, that sacrifice made for others
| pleasures is means for soul develop
| ment. Once given a firm foundation of
character like this, which the poorest as
well as the richest parents can give to
their girls, and no matter what necessity
arises they will be able to rise above it.
The mother who brings her children
up in truthfuness and sobriety TO useful
spheres, and who looketh well to the
ways of her household when the passing
OF time has left the ffosts of winter in her
hair and the beauty Of youth is fled,
then is she worthy of all honor. To our
mind, no nobler epitaph to a woman's
memory could be written than that she
has been good wife and mother.
The sanctity of the marriage relation
must not be broken by divorce" says
| seedy sentiment, no matter though the
| ever-preSent specter of bruises, wounds,
perhaps of fearful death, may hang over
the head of the victim, she should walk
unswervingly by the side of the despisable
brute whose brawny hand, nerved by
| rum or reasonless passion, may at any
time strike down her frai form. He
who lays his hand upon woman, save
in the way of kindness, deserves no COM
panion but eternal Punishment from her
very presence.
| TEMPERS.
Tempers are queer things anyway
| We snap. and growl, and scold, and
| fume, and fret for no cause under the sun
that we know of and when trouble really
/ f,l- -
cernedly as though it was the most COM
monpla affair. We will sulk for week
over slight that was all in our imagina-
ton and grow all the madder because we
know that the whole matter is an inven-
ton of our own. The fact is, when we
feel good, cyclone can't spoil our
equanimty, but if we chance to be out of
sorts and have the blues, we are going to
get mad and stay mad if we don't find
any provocation we will make one. The
man who gets the blues-and who is
there who doesn't get them?-is most
unfortunate creature. Ten minutes after
the attack begins he has concluded that
he is the most abused man on the face oi
the earth. Every person in the town is
working against him-he knows it and il
is no use to deny the fact. If the unfor
tunate man is married, he wreaks his dis
gust upon his wife, the baby and the COW
Cheerfuness! How sweet in infancy
how lovely in youth, how sanity in ole
agel There are a few noble nature:
whose very presence carries sunshine
with them wherever they go; sunshine
means pity for the poor, sympathy fol
the suffering, help for the unfortunate
and benignity toward all. How such {
face enlivens every other face it meets
and carries into every company vivacity
and JOY and gladness! But the scow
and frown, forgotten in selfish heart
and manifesiing itself in daily, almos
hourly fretfulness, complaining, faultfind
ing, angry criticisms. spiteful comments
on the motives and actions of Others, hov
they thin the cheek, shrivel the face, sou
and sadden the countenance! No Joy II
the heart, nobility in the soul. no gener
osity in the nature the whole characte
as cold as an iceburg, as hard as an AL
pine rock, as arid as the waste OF Sahara
Reader, which of these countenances ar
you cutivating?
He Saw Lincoln Shot.