The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-04-28
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
DON'TS EOR WIVES.

Don't relate to the tired husband all
trihing details of home life.
Don't make your home "wailing
place"
Don't tell your husband all your
troubles: don't tell them to any one;
forget them.
Don't withhold from your children
the only heritage that you can give,
contentment and faith.
Don't let your anxiety to get to
church on time Sunday morning make
you cross to your entire family for the
entire day.
Don't think you possess all the bust
ness knowledge in the family, and that
the husbands life as well as business,
will prove failure should he fail to
follow your advice.
Don't let your husband make a beg
gar of you. The woman who takes
money from her husband ; pocket steals
only her own self-respect. Men are
reasonable creatures and Will general
ly accord their wives the treatment
they expect and require.
If you want to keep your children a.
way from sin you can only do so by
making their home attractive. You
can preach sermons, advocate reforms
and denounce wickedness and yet your
children will be captiyated 10y the
glittering places of sin, unless you
make your home brighter than any
other place on earth to them Gather
all the charms you possibly can into
your house. If you can afford it, bring
books and pictures and cheerful enter
tainments to the household. But above
all. teach those children not 10y half an
hour, twice a year on Sabbath day but
day after day, and every day teach them
that religion is a great gladness, that
it throws chains Of gold about the neck,
that it takes no spring from the foot
no blitheness from the heart no sparkle,
from the eye, no ring from the Taught
er but that her ways are ways of
pleasantness and all her paths are
peace
1t is her own fault if a woman is un-
loved and neglected. That is harsh
statement to make, but it is a fact.
Mortal man is a weakling who can no
more resist kindness than a rose can
resist the sun. 1t is weak, helpless
woman's duty to make herself attract
i've and pretty in the very face Of dis
enlargement. Call it hypocrisy, tact,
tinesse, or 10y any other term, but she
must turn in the edges and make allies
instead of antagonists Of the people a.
bout her. Spotless neatncss, bccom-
ing feminine attire, truth, kindness
cheerfulness, love, and the loyalty that
restraints her from speaking i'll Of her
neighbOrS will make many a woman
lovely, even though she lacks beauty.
The effort at pleasing mother"
should be cultivated in the childish
heart, Early in life they should begin
the cultivation of thought and effort
with reference to the qualification of
her wishes and Of making her happy.
If they would do this they would find
daily opportunities for speaking kind
words and rendering such helpful SER
vices md showing such noble traits Of
character in dealing with others, as
would gladden. the heart and tighten
the cares Of mother in a way too often
little thought of. If boys if girls,
could but realize their Indebtedness to
their mothers, they certainly would
generally be very much more anxious
about pleasing them The great men Of
the world, who have acknowledged their
great Indebtedness to their mothers,
took great delight in pleasing them.
But most of all their noble lives, their
courage in doing right and their hon
orable achievements in public life
were pleasing to their noble mothers.
Hardly higher tribute can he paid to
any young mans success in life than
sit pleased his mother. "