The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-10-06

slant exercise of courtesy toward their
brothers and sisters and playmates, as
towards parents and uncles and aunts,
1t will have but very little left to learn
as it grows older
Character makes the man; character
plus culture makes the gentleman and the
true gentleman is the real nobleman of
the world. Culture is the rose on the
breast of character. Wear 1t that YOU
may make life not only useful and hon
orable, but high, sweet and helpful, noble
and divine.
The house and home require a head
the same as any other business. No
study is of greater importance to a
girl; and after marriage she often wishes
that she knew more of cooking and less
of Latin. Money and love combined
does not form safeguard where there
is domestic incapacity. A woman who
is capable OF filling her home in every
sense OF the word is worthy of more
true applause than if she possessed many
accomplishments.
Children lost lost! lost! Hearken to
the startled cry. Children lost! lost! Oh
men, your cities are full of them; and
they are your children, your own tender
little ones; mothers, the babies that lay
in smiling innocence upon your bosoms;
the dear, brave boys that looked up to
you in perfect confidence and warm i'm
pulse and love. Your homes are lonely
without them, your hearts are hungry
for their love. Oh you miss them now;
the darlings of other years; you want
the little hands in your own once more:
you want the warm kiss upon your ach-
ing brow. But life hurries on, and lost,
lost. ever rings through the darkened
aisles of time. One by one the drunk
ards graves yawn wide and somebody's
darling is gone. The midnight revel
and the gambling den covers its CHASTITY
dead, and the homes are in sack cloth
and sorrow sits familiar guest by many
a hearthstone. Brave, beloved boys,
noble men, fair browed maidens and
mature womanhood. Oh, how they fall
and perish; and the land is full of
"Rachels, weeping for their children who
will not be comforted because they are
not"
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Girls that have not the smallest vestige
of taste for music, appreciable by the
strongest microscope Of optimism or
charity, are often compelled to sit for
hours practicing, Furnishing the piano
and the neighbors. subjecting themselves
to mental irritation that is ruffling and
destructive of clear thinking. Then when
the day of reckoning comes and an
account of stock is taken. the parent,
not finding the dividends proportional
TO the investment, mercilessly calls the
poor girls attention to the hundreds Of
dollars spent on her musical education
and accuses her of ingratitude in not
being equal to her opportunity. 1t was
really the parent that was not equal to
the occasion. A small fraction of the
amount spent in the penal servitude to
music, if expended in art, language, or
some power or taste in the direction of
the girls individuality, might have made
her happy for years and have broadened
her entire mental and moral develop
ment
Sore men stumble over straws in the
road to heaven, but climb over the hills
on the road to destruction.
There is an opportunity for every
Young man to become an honored citizen,
and so manv, oh SO many precious boys,
are allowing themselves to be carried
along, apparently caring but little about
their future. We do admire manly boy,
one who tries to become man, and we
always feel like helping him along. The
boy who steps out from among his evil
associates. gives tobacco the go-by, has
the true grit and deserves to be helped.
1t takes considerable to turn ones back
upon those whom he has been associat-
ing with and we admire the pluck of one
who does so.
In the home life never forget that the
children have social rights, and chief
among these is the right to laugh when
they are happy, to cry when they are
unhappy, and to make a noise.
The sphere of the woman is to preside
over the home as its light and inspira-
ton No charms so captivating, no
grace so irresistible, no spirits SO exuber-
ant, no wit so CHEEKY. no conversation so
fascinating. no culture so varied but can
find in the home fit place for their
varied charms.
Every good act is charity. Your smile
in your brothers. face is charity; an ex-
hortation of your fellowmen to virtuous
deeds is equal to almsgiving; your put
ting of wanderer on the right track is
charity; your removing stones and thorns.
and the other distractions from the road
is character. A mans true wealth here
after is the good that he does in this
world to his fellow men. When he dies
people will say, What property has he
left behind him." But the angels who
examine him in. the grave will ask,
'What good deeds hast thou sent before
thee?"
Children in family should always be
treated as a gardener cares for his
flowers. He realizes that they require
different lights, soils, moistures shade
and attention The treatment that would
make rose win gold medal at hor-
ticultural show might kill an orchid. He
studies the plants. their habits. needs,
peculiarities and individuality He seeks
to discover how each grows naturally.
He does not force his process on nature,
bur seeks humbly to follow her guidance
and revelation. He realizes the fact that
nature not only deals but leads. Parents
do not always learn this lesson. They