The citizen., 1911-09-15
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pIcKINe An orHERs, FAULTS.

pay them; if not, keep your red rag be-
hind your ivory ridge. A friends faults
should not be advertised, and even a
strangers should not be published. He
who makes fool of another is fool
himself. Don't get into the habit of
laughing at other people, for the old
saving is Hanging, stretching and
mocking is catching" testing is too apt to
turn into jeering, and what is meant TO
tickle often makes wound. 1t is GER
tainly pity when your mirth causes
another man misery. Before a man
cracks Joke he should consider how he
would like it himself; for many who
give rough blows have very thin skins.
Give only what you would be willing
10 take yourself; some men throw salt on
others, but they smart if pinch of it
falls on their own raw places. When
they get Roland for their Oliver, or a
tit for tat, they do not like it. yet nothing
is more just. Bitters deserve to be bit
ten.
Let home stand before all other
things No matter how high your ambi-
tion may transcend its duties, no matter
how far your talents or your influence
may reach beyond its doors, before every
thing else build true home. Be not its
slave. Be its master. Let it not be
enough that it is swept and garnished,
that its silver is brilliant that its food is
delicious, but feed the love in it, feed
thought and aspiration, feed all charity
and gentleness in it. Then from its
walls shall come forth the true man and
the true woman. who shall together rule
and bless the land" Is this an over
wrought picture? We think not. What
honor can be greater than to found such
home? What dignity higher than to
reign as its undisputed mistress3 What
is the ability to speak from public plat
form to large. intelligent audiences, or
the wisdom that may command seat
on the judges bench, compared to that
which can insure and preside over a true
home, that husband and children ''rise
up and call her blessed3" To be the
guiding star, the ruling spirit in such a
position is higher honor than to rule an
empire.
WHAT A WOMAN MUST DO.
A woman must wear No. boots on
No. 3 feet, and she must manage to dress
well on rs cents week, and she must
be vain; and she must go regularly to
the sewing society meetings, and be
ready to dress dolls and make tides and
aprons for the church fairs. She must be
good cook. and must be able to do
up" her husbands shirts so that the
Chinese laundry man would groan with
envy
She must always have the masculine
buttons of the family sewed on so that
they never will come off while in
use, and she must keep the family in
hosiery so that nobody would ever mis-
trust that there were toes IN the stock
ings while they were on. She must hold
herself in constant readinss to find every
thing that her husband has lost-and
man never knows where to find any
thing. He will put his boots carefully
away under the parlor sofa, and when
he has hunted for them for half an hour,
he will suddenly appear to his wife with
countenance like an avenging and de-
mand "what in the thunder has she done
with my boots" She must shut all of
the doors after her lord and master, and
likewise the bureau drawers, for mar
ried man was never known 10 shut a
drawer. 1t would be as unnatural as 1t
would be for hen to go swimming for
recreation.
And when she has the headache no.
BODY thinks Of minding it-a woman is
always having the headache. And if she
is nervous enough to fly" nobody
tucks her on the lounge with a shawl
over her or coddles her to death as
man has to be under the same circum-
stances.
We might 60 on indefinitely with the
troubles of woman and if there is
man who thinks woman has an easy
time of it, why just let him pin a pound
of false hair and get inside of pair of
corsets and put on pull back overskirt,
and be woman himself, and see how
he likes it.
WOMAN AND THE HOME.
Nothing SO helps woman through the
long weary days of work as the knowl-
edge that what she does is appreciated
by those she loves and for whom she
tolls. Think Of this, husbands and
fathers. and remember that kind word
is always in season. II, on some morn
ing, the coffee is shade TO brown to suit
your taste, do not scold about it; and, on
every other morning when il is delicious.
say so. Try this way, and you will find
that your coffee, and everything else for
that matter. will be to your taste much
oftener; and besides, you will give the
ones that you ought to love best the
sweetest consciousness that they are
doing their work well, and giving satis-
faction to the one, Of all others, that
they most desire to please-thus inspir.
ing them with renewed energy to strive
for the merited reward of kind and ap-
preciativei words. And so shall an at
mosphrre Of peace and sweet home hap.
piuess comes TO pervade the whole house,
born and nurtured into beautiful, fra
grant blossoming by your own kind
words and deeds. Let us all remember
too, that the higher and happier our
home lie, the more wisely and better
we may hope to do the work that lies
waiting for us beyond it. A pleasant
place to come home to-" is the great
est energizer that man can have. Then
let us strive with an earnest and con-
stant purpose to make and keep the
home cheerful, inviting and pleasant.
NO TIME FOR FRIENDSHIP.