The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-07
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| This boy goes to his business and at
his business begins by simply doing the
things he is told to do, and doing them in
common and ordinary way. If he stops
here, he remains all his life long drudge.
But if he begins to see that business has a
significance. that his life is not merely
sweeping the store not merely writing
letters, not merely selling goods if he
begins to see the higher life involved in
business; if ne begins to see that business
is greater instrument of beneficence;
that trade is clothing thousands of men
where charity clothes ten that agricul-
tural and milling industries are feeding
thousands of men where charity feeds ten;
if he begins to see how the whole history
of the world is linked together, and is
Gods way of building up humanity and
| serving humanty-as he gets this larger
/ view, and enters into it, life is enriched
and becomes itself the minister whereby
| love is enlarged and conscience is
strengthened, the school wherein he is
educated out of the lower into the higher
Good breeding, like charity, should be-
| gin at home. The day is past when chill
dren used to rise when their parents
entered the room where they were and
stand until they had received permission
| to sit. But the mistake is now made
usually in the other direction in allowing
to small boys and girls too much license
to disturb the peace of the household.
| We think the best way to train children in
courtesy would be to observe toward
them scrupulous politeness. We would
60 so far as to say that we should make
it as much point to listen to children
without interrupting them and to answer
them sincerely and respectfully as if they
were grown up. And, indeed, many Of
their wise, quaint sayings are far better
worth listening to than the stereotyped
commonplace of the morning callers. OF
course to allow uninterrupted chatter
would be to surrender the repose of the
household, but 1t is very easy, if children
are themselves scrupulously respected,
to teach them in turn scrupulously to re-
spect the convenience of others, and to
know when to talk and when to be silent
What it shall be we do not know.
How it shall come we cannot tell.
Whether it shall come as the old
prophets thought ''amid the clash of
worlds or wreck of matter" or as the
gentle beauty of May morning we can
not see. But it will come 1t will be just
as easy for this world to end as it was for
it to begin; and there is much greater
reason for the ending than there is for the
beginning. The Inequality of this world
must be somewhere adjusted. Here
wrong is sometimes triumphant, iusolent
power occasionally victorious and I'M
blemished, virtue misjudged and mis-
understood. AS surely as the sun shines,
the time will come when the one will be
punished and the other rewarded, and
when equal and exact justice, the most
glorious phrase known to any language
shall be melted out to all.
The idea seems to exist among us that
to be polite to each other in the family
circle is foolish and like putting on airs.
We must rid ourselves of this notion and
act on the principle that whatever helps
to make our intercourse pleasanter out
side the family circle should be brought
into use there. We should avail ourselves
of any and everything that can be used to
advantage in our daily intercourse. 1t is
no exhibition of airiness to say thank
you" or eff you please" These little
courtesies are indications of refinement.
and costing nothing, they help to make
the wheels of life move more smoothly.
1t is not in elaborate attempts at polite
ness that true gentility consists. 1t is in
the simple, honest expression of the gen.
une feelings of the heart which is inter-
ested in the welfare of others.
X.
Our men of wealth and influence did
not start with any cash capital. They
went to work with their pillow. the hoe, the
Jack plane or axe. and in time their cap
ital brought them a rich harvest All!
but there's the rub; you don't want to
work You want money on credit SO you
can play the gentleman, speculate and
end your career by playing vagabond.
You want to marry rich girl who will
support YOU, while you wear fine clothes,
smoke cigars and be a gentleman of
leisure.
Young women have the same longing
to get away from their native towns and
live among new scenes and changed sur
roundiugs that boys are possessed Of
They feel the weight OF local environment,
even more than the opposite sex, and one
frequently hears the remark, 81 wish
were boy, that could have some free
DOM" This marks critical period of
Young lady's life. She needs. more than
ever before, wise and loving counsel, and
the sympathetic companionship of true
friend; and there is no friend like mother
in unselfsh. untiring devotion. Girls, tell
your mothers of your hopes and am
billions, and you are quite certain to re-
ceive advice which you can accept with
profit, and which will do you good.
1t is only too true that to refrain from
showing affection makes the wife miser-
able. She does not care for presents or
lavish attention; she wants those little
tokens such as may be given even in
look, which will prove her husbands
love. We wish some of the good things
that some men are saving up to say con-
corning their wives after they are dead
could be said now
Have bright bouquet of flowers in
each room of your home to cheer and
brighten it and its inmates
Troughs Along State Roads.
The State Roads Commission is plan
ming troughs at points along the new pub