The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-08-25
Home
Circle
Depart
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Where is the stream of life so dark
and unpropitious that the sunshine of a
happy face falling on the turbd tide will
not awaken an answering gleam?
Parents often say II live for my chill
dIen." They should do more than that
they should live with their children.
letting their boys and girls feel that their
interests are their parents interests also.
What is needed most of all in bring
ing up children is example. What they
see and hear and take IN by absorption
IN their young years, will, in most cases,
become the ruling traits of their lives.
! A room without a couch of some sort
is only half furnished. Life is full of
ups and downs and all that saves the
sanity of the mentally jaded and phys
ically exhausted fortune fighter is the
| periodical good cry,' and momentary
loss of consciousness on the upstairs
lounge or sofa in the sitting room
There are times when so many Of the
things that distract us could be straight
! ened out and the way made clear. If
/ one only had long. comfortable couch
on whose bosom he could throw himself
boots and brains stretch his weary frame,
! unmindiul of tides and tapestry, close
his tired eyes, relax the tension of his
muscles and give his harassed mind
chance.
Women equips man for the voyage of
life. She is seldom a leader in any
| project, but meets her peculiar and best
attitudes as helper. Though man may
execute PROJECT she fits him for it,
beginning in his childhood. A man dis
covered America, but woman equip
ped the voyage; SO everywhere man ex-
ecutes the performance, but woman
trains the man.
Shovel your sa'ool money, theatre
money, shooting gallery money, rink
money, tobacco money, ETC., into the
bank, and gather something to beautify
and render more pleasant the sweetest
place on earthAhome.
People wonder why the boys want to
leave the farm and try their fortunes in
wonder when the matter is looked into.
Too little effort is made to make the
homes from which the boys want to run
away, attractive. The almighty dollar,
too, often gets in the way Boys are not
wild animals; they do not need pounding
because they do not do their work as
well as other persons.
| sT
think that ! am more grateful to God for
mothers and sisters of the substantial in
tegrity, purity and nobility of woman
hood, than for almost anything else in
this world. After long life | can say
that have not lost faith in women. The
longer live the more chvalric is my
regard for them | should look upon it
as a fatal canker in my soul if | fell from
my confidence in the general trustworth-
mess, honesty, honor or charity of wom-
anhood. Therefore, when hear Young
men, or men in middle life, or old men,
cast gross aspersons on the character
of women, | feel as if | were in a den of
Kissing serpents.
Home life is the sure test of home
character. Let the husband grow cross
and surly, and the wife grow cold and
unamiable. The children grow cross and
savage as young bears. The father be-
comes callous. peevish, hard kind of
two-legged brute with clothes on. The
wife bristles in self-defence. They de-
velop an unnatural growth and sharpness
of teeth and the house is haunted by ugli-
ness and domestic brawls This is not
what the family circle should be. If one
must be rude to any, let it be to some
one that he does not love--not to his
wife, brother or parents.
f Labor is honorable, and the gnobe
are those who will not work Get YOU a
home. Fence field and plow ii and
plant it, and gather around you the
comforts of home. And when you
have made character for energy and
thrift ask some young lady to shire your
home with you. We would say to every
young lady, mark these men who are
lounging around attempting to live by
their wits, or on the interest of their
debts; and when they ask you to share
the lot of an aimless life, pass them on,
for you cannot afford to marry a man
without prosperity or business habits,
unless you wish to sell yourself for
mess of pottage.
: How many hungry hearts there are
now in the world, hungering for word
of recognition or praise. The hungriest
heart in this world is an unpraised
woman whose husband never gives her
word of prase.
The home influence is either blessing
or curse. either for good or for evil
1t cannot be neutral. In either case 1t
: is mighty, commencing with us at our
birth, going with us through life, cinglng
TO ms in death, and reaching into the
eternal world. The specific inf fences
l of husband and wife, Of parent and
child, Of brother and sister. OF teacher
and pupil united and harmoniously
blended. constitute the home Influence
Like the calm. deep stream, it moves
on in silent but overwhelming power.
II strikes its roots deep into the human
! heart, and spreads its branches wide
over our whole being. Like the lilly
that braves the tempest and the Alpine
flower that leans its cheek on the bosom.
OF the eternal snow il IS exerted amid
the widest storms of life and breathes
a softening spell in our bosom even when
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