The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-06-23

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/ Evening r.,an4 Evening
The home should be a place where
man is always on his good behavior
our kindest words, our pleasantest
smiles, and our most particular favors,
should be kept in exchange with our
own household.
If your grown son or daughter have
accomplished some difficult piece OF
work rendering you essential assistance;
or have climbed up some step in the
daily drill of study, or have acquired
some new accomplishment or added
grace; or better than all have gained the
victory over some bad habit or besetting
sln-acknowledge it, see it, praise them
for it. Let them see by your added ten
derness, the deep Joy and comfort that it
gives you Thus you will create a great
incentive to right conduct and Law A
broad foundation for a character which
shall be redolent with succulent fruit
and fragrant blossoms.
A man who has made happy home
for his wife and children, no matter
what he has done in the way of achiev-
ing wealth and honor; if he has done
that he IS a grand success. If he has
not done that, and it is his own fault,
although he be the highest in the land,
he is most pitable failure We wonder
how MANY men in the mad pursuit of
gold, which characterizes the age, rea-
lie that there is no fortune which can be
left to their families as great as the men,
ory OF happy home.
What can equal mothers love for
the boy? You boys have grown up
from tender babies under a mothers
watchful care. All, boys, how many
heart aches do you cause that dear, old
mother. Do you realize the world
of affection in a mothers heart? What
JOY can you have in her sorrow? What
pleasure in her pain? Stop, my lad, and
think of your m other's heart You have
1t in your power to make it glad, or to
make it sad. Let your heart warm to
hers as it did when a babe in her arms.
Kindly stroke the gray hairs on her head
and assure her that in your heart there
is seated deep and lasting love and
reverence for her.
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1t is but natural and right that mother
should wish TO see her daughter well
educated and highly accomplished; and
it is a mistake that good and careful
education should unit girl for the
homely duties of cooking, busting and
general housework. On the contrary,
those duties would be better performed
if mothers would at the same time that
they seek talented instructors for their
daughters, impart to them some OF their
own culinary talent; there would be
more good wives and marriages.
Rascally and scoundrelly people for
the most part come from iniquitiouS
homes, and from undisciplined homes
Parents, harsh and cruel on the one hand,
or on the other hand, loose in their gov
ernment-wickedly loose in their gov
ernment-are rearing up generation of
vpers A home where scoding and
fretfulness are dominated, is blood rela-
tion to the gallows and to the Jail. Pet
ulance is serpent that craws up in the
family nursery and cruSheS everything.
Why, there are parents who even make
religion disgusting to their children.
They scold them for not putting in all
their leisure time at church or some
gathering, The have an exasperating
way of doing their duty
Whenever young women begin trying
to fit themselves for wives then a new
social era will begin to dawn. There
will be more happy homes, less poverty,
fewer divorces and better moral atmos-
phere. There is a great deal of room
for men to improve in The same line.
Comparatively few men have definite
ideas in regard to the home life that
they expect to live. If they do picture
such a thing, they simply follow the
outlines traced by some sentimental
novelist. 1t is an impossible sort OF
place, in which he installs an angel
Nectar takes the place of coffee and the
bread plate is filled with lotus.