The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-03
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DoN'TS FOR WIVES.

Don't relate to the tired husband all
trifling details of home life.
Don't make your home a waiting
place"
Don't tell your husband all your
troubles; don't tell them to any one; for
get them.
Don't withhold from your children the
only heritage that you can give, content
ment and faith.
Don't ask for new gown the day you
remember it to be ''office checkday."
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 business
knowledge in the family, and that the
husbands life as we'll as business, will
prove failure should he fail to follow
your advice.
Don't let your husband make beggar
OF you. The woman who takes money
from her husbands pocket steals only her
own selfrespect Men are reasonable
creatures and will generally acord their
wives the treatment they expect and re-
quire.
If you want to keep your children away
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
captivated by the glittering saloons 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 cheeful entertainments
to the household. But above all, teach
those children not by half an hour, twice
a year on the Sabbath day. but day after
day, and every day teach them that re-
ligion is great gladness, that it throws
chains of gold about the neck. that it takes
no spring from the foot, no blithness from
the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no
ring from the laughter, but that her
ways are ways of pleasantness and all her
paths are peace"
1t is her own fault if a woman is unlov-
ed and neglected. That is harsh state.
ment to make, but it is fact Mortal
man is weakling who can no more resist
kindness than a rose can resist the SUM-
1t is a weak, helpless woman's duty to
make herself attractive and pretty in the
very face of encouragement Call it hy-
pocrisy, tact, finesse, or by any other term
but she must turn in the edges and make
allies instead of antagonists of the people
about her. Spotless, neatness, becoming
feminine attire, truth, kindness, cheerful
ness, love, and the loyalty that restrains
her from speaking i'll of her neighbors will
make many 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 speak
ing kind words and rendering such help
full services and showing such noble traits
of character in dealings 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 pleas
ing them. But most of all their noble
lives, their courage in doing right and
their honorable achievements in public
life were especially pleasing to their noble
mothers. Hardly higher tribute can be
paid to any young mans success in life
than at pleased his mother"