The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-03-11
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The man or woman who can wear theil
old clothes until new can be paid for, ha.
a high order of courage.
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=, Always keep on hand enough love tc
go around among your children. Do moi
let them feel they have grown too old tc
| pet.
1t is a charming thing to keep sweet
tempered and patient through all the
days work and worry. A sunshiny wo
man in a pink calico dress and white
apron is the sweetest thing in the world
Such woman, CHEEKY, courageous self
reliant and sympathetic, will make poe.
try in her little world as well as the poel
who fills the magazines with the children
of his imagination. One who can have fol
her constant companions pleasant
thoughts and original ideas, and above
all an interest in and love for her work,
will be happy in doing it.
Every comfort that can be drawn
around the old people ought to be held
as duty, to perform which will warm the
hearts of the young people. The heat oI
their day has passed. all the stormy
morning and the torrid noon have gone
by, and they are now in the twilight wait.
ing for the stars. 1t is a good thing to
draw mantles about them as the night ali
begins to grow cold. 1t is good thing
to hold bright pictures before dim eyes; a
good thing to provide music for the ears
that are not much longer to hear A good
thing with song and with cheer to steady
their steps down the farther slope.
We are not sorry when times are hard.
The women then cook noodles with the
chicken to make the chicken go round
make good gravy to save the meat; serve
apple pie oftener than plum pudding dc
away with the servant girls, who can't
cook, and display their own skill; stay al
home more with the children, because
they have no fine clothes to wear gad-
ding; try their hand at nice old fashioned
ginger bread, instead of angels food;
the general health is better; and the
people who would otherwise come and
visit a month stay at home There is
nothing SO terrible about hard times if a
clever woman manages the house.
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1t is not enough that the young women
of today shall be what their mothers are,
or were They must be more The spirit
of the times calls on women for a higher
order of things, and the requirements of
the woman of the future will be great.
We must not be mlsconstrued into saying
that the future woman will be one of mind
rather than of heart. Power of mind in
itself no more makes true woman than
does wealth, beauty of person, or social
station. But clear intellect, we'll
trained mind adorns woman, just as an
ivy will adorn splendid oak; a true
woman has a power, something pecul-
iarly her own, in her moral influence,
which, when duly developed, makes her
queen over wide realm of spirit. But
this she can possess only as her powers
are cultivated. Cultivated women Weld
the scepter of authority over the world at
large. Wherever a cultivated woman
dwells, be sure that there you will find re-
finement, moral power and life in its
highest form For woman to be culti-
waited she must begin early; the days Of
girlhood are transitory and fast feetlng,
and the girls are women before we know
it, in these rapid times. Every girl has
certain station to occupy in this life, some
one place to fill, and often she makes her
own station by her capacity to create and
fill it. The beginning influences the end.
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When God stopped to earth and placed
the crown of motherhood ON the brow of
woman. he enthroned in the heart purer,
truer. holier love than man can ever pos
sess. This thought should be an incen-
tive, and stimulating reflection to all
careworn mothers, that while they carry
the real burdens of lite, they possess the
real gem that rules the world-love. How
many careless. light-hearted, indifferent
creatures have been tranformed by the
word motherhood" into beings of love-
Then, if God saw fit to confer the honor
on woman Of keeping his Jewels" did
.he intend her to be encumbered with the
yoke of SIM, and yet bring them up for
His glory? Some of his messages, heavily
freighted with love, seem intended for
mothers. Surely "Come unto me all ye
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