The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-20

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! PEN fRQn0Rt Home
Pleasant Circle at
I Evening oL Evening
Reveries llleIII Tide.
The girl with sweet little voice need
not feel discouraged because she has no
opportunity to sing in grand opera.
She can give great pleasure by being a
song bird in the home nest
Love is the great home maker. that
makes even the drudgery of housekeep-
ing pleasure, and home life a foretaste
OF the bliss of heaven. One cannot get
too much love into ones home making.
but easily too little.
There is no such thing as mans rights
and womans rights separate and distinct
from each other. Womans rights are
simply human rights. The sexes belong
TO each other what benefits one helps the
other; what elevates either uplfts both
Man is the outdoor and woman the in
door partner in the firm of humanity.
If you want TO be happy forget YOUR
selves and think Of some one else and
if possible do something for some one
else. Read to an old lady; send bunch
Of flowers to sick friend; dry the tears
of a-lonely child say kind word to a
poor discouraged washerwoman; speak
with voice which shames the whine and
whimpers of another.
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life may not readily recall all of their
early experiences in life, their struggles
and triumphS in their childhood home,
the play houses that they helped their
sisters to build are photographed upon
the hearts tablet and will never fade
away. The golden light OF eternity will
not dim the brightness of this picture.
One will never forget the place of his
birth, the little broken cart, the sled and
the kite, and the older brother who led
the way to the hillside where the fairest
wild flowers bloomed. These sacred
memories will never grow less bright or
dim with age.
There should be no day in our lives
that did not record some act of kindness,
some help held out to the needy. One
self denying act or some kind word, or a
pleasant glance, has fallen like sunshine
or eaSed all aching heart. There is no
act intended to help another, too small
for the Masters notice. 1t is the con-
scious attention 10 what the world calls
little things that makes the great beauty
and success in life.
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Let oul homes be places of love, ioy
and brightness, sunshine, places of en-
during love that enlists the wedding dav.
and which produces a life of one un
broken honeymoon. the moulding place
of character, a place where the child
brealhes all atmosphere perfumed by the |
choicest flowers of heaven, where it finds |
the greatest earthly security in mothers |
loving, fostering care,
How often is fine nature warped,
and really good disposition spoiled by |
the omission Of few timely words OF |
encouragement. A child receiving moth |
ing but blame and constant scoding, |
i'll time becomes deaf to correction, sui |
len and defiant, and in the end one Of |
those children who neither heeds nor
hears. On the other hand a child that |
is occasionally encouraged, is proud of |
pleasing another, consequently is pleased |
with himself and urged to renewed eXer
tons to gain a repetition of that praise
so dear to the human heart, be that heart
young or old.
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A model husband may be a dav |
laborer who returns to his home at night |
with a hard earned dollar clasped in
his honest hand, and adds it to the
family fund to be used to provide the
necessary comforts for the family. He |
shares faithfully with his wife whatever
he may earn by trade or profession
All Of these virtues which are crowned
jewels of the highest civilization have
their inception in the home. The glory
and charm Of womanhood and manhood
When business matters perpleX him he
does not go home with a woelul tale of
his hardships and turn the bright side of
his character to his associates, but he
comes into his home with a cheerful
face that inspires his wife with a new
after a day of perplexing du-
and in their monotony become distasteful
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The ethics OF home correspond in a
large measure with the ethics of society
All of these virtues which are crowned
Jewels of the highest civilization have
their inception in the home. The glory
and charm of womanhood and manhood,
the incest of character which give dis
and beauty to childhood and
youth, the adjustments of personal and
domestic relations within the home, the
education Of the impulses. budding sus-
capabilities and the growing powers Of
all fall within the powers of
home ethics Nowhere else can the
abstract virtues of practical duties be
more forcibly disclosed. Honesty, fideli-
ty to trusts, truthfulness, courage, true
dignity, the lesser virtues as we'll as the
finer and nobler issues OF life, must re-
vert TO home training for their proper
and lasting inculcation.
Every wife should be a helpmate to
her husband. For instance, if you have
the pleasure of a large washing before
you and he has the laborious task of
going to the city, or taking a trip through
the country, change work with him, let
him help you to wash in the forenoon
and you help him to ride in the after
noon. A good wife will deny herself to
her husband, especially on
wash day. But some men will say:
When come down TO that | will hire