The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-03-31
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What happy world this world would
be II the innocency of childhood's tender
years could be carried through age. So
while we are training them in the way
they should walk, let us wat h our own
footsteps, and not cut off their harmless
mirth to suit our tastes that have grown
sombre with age and care.
Be as careful to keep the weeds out oi
the minds of your children as you are to
keep them out of your garden. But
remember something will grow there.
If you don't plant them with good grain.
the tares will take root in spite of you.
Keep library of good clean books, and
by all means keep your home paper
before them.
70 make boy into pure man. a
mother must do more than pray She
must live with him in the sense of COM
rade and closest friend. She must stand
by him in time of temptation as the pilot
sticks to the wheel when rapids are
around. She must never desert him to
go off 10 superintend outside duties any
more than the engineer deserts his\post
and goes into baggage car to read up
engineering when his train is pounding
across the country at forty miles an hour.
Whoever takes little child into his
love, NAV have a very roomv heart but
that child will fill it out The children
keep us from growing old and cold; they
cling to our garments with their little
hands and impede our progress to petrlfi-
cation; they win us back with their plead
ing eyes, from cruel care; they never
encounter us at all. A poor old couple
with no one to love them, is a most pitt
ful picture; but hovel. with a small face
to flll broken pane here and there, is
robbed of its desolateness.
A taste for music, poetry. pictures. etc
tends to destroy the attraction for the
vulgar. A home of beauty, of taste and
refinement ALWAYS tends to elevate and
ennoble the mind and cultivate the spirit
of contentment. Beauty fills the world.
as well as heaven, if we have ewes to see
it. 1t is open to ALL The rose is as fra
grant, the lilv as white, and the hvacinth
as delicately blue, when cultivated bv the
poor, as by the jeweled fingers of the
wealthy.
1t is the mothers who hold the world
In place. They are the balance wheels
OF the universe. They hold the scepter
OF power by controlling the affections Of
men. The hand that rocks the cradle"
has controlled armies. Marie Theresa
quelled the tumult of mighty army in
Austria by raising her fair hand. and we
are told that all was hushed to silence. as
IN clear, sweet tones, she spoke, "The
bravest battles that ever were fought have
been fought by the mothers of men"
1t is claimed that all the presidents of
the United States had good mothers. 1t
is said that John Q. Adams until the day
of his death said the prayer his mother
had taught him. Lincoln said, "All that
| am | owe to my mother" Garfield
kissed the wrinkled face OF his mother on
the day of his Inauguration and said.
"You brought me to this Grover
Cleveland said WORLDLY honors or
worldly perplexities will never cause me
to forget the lessons my mother taught
me-" AS the shadows lengthen, the
memory of a mothers love becomes in
tensifed. The vision grown dim with
age becomes clear and pictures of child
| hood davs rise before us in their perfec-
tons. 1t is well so few instances are on
record where mother has failed to inn
press her children with the value and
purity of mothers love.
Our prisons are rapidly being filled by
those who make the mistake Of beginning
life at the top of the ladder.
What are those whom we meet in
| society to us as compared TO our own
home circle? Why do we take pains to
be polite and agreeable to them and neg
| lect those who have the strongest claim
upon usa 1t all comes about because we
have got into the wrong way of thinking
| We have put the home in the background
when 1t should occupy the. foremost place
in our thoughts.
You get down in the mouth" too
easily, my friend. Cheer up; walk on
the sunny side of the street; live where
| you can catch the south winds. Sun
| shine always warns and cheers. get more
OF 1t and give it out YOU have lived in
the frigid zone too long already. We
would like to send gulf stream of ioy
| into your life. Give us a chance. Read
the Home Circle Department and YOU
will always wear a smile 1t is the best
known tonic for the blues"
Little arms encircling the neck will
make the heart light, over which no dia-
monds sparkle. All the grand pictures
and splendid works uf art~one can pos
sess will never adorn room as do the
smiling faces of those dearest to us. The
things that may be bought are pleasant
/ to have, nor is wealth to be despised;
but never pity the poor man who has the
wealth that gold cannot buy, nor the
] woman whose Jewels aie those of which
Cornelia was so proud-good and obedi-
| ent sons.
The parlor as parlor will soon be a
relic of the past The very name seems
to suggest stiffness and lack of comfort.
The new houses will have the best room.
| the one in which the whole family GATH
crs, warm sunny place home room
in its trueSt sense The next generation