The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-09-08

| lnen ClallCe 10 look Tor second wife.
There is great demand for good boys.
The boy'who is honest, earnest and in
dustrlous, need not be long out o a job.
| lhere are lots of prosperous business
men, merchants and mechanics, who are
constantly on the outlook for good boys
! They do not look for them on the
streets, however, but in some sort of
employment. They have no use for an
idle boy. He is too apt to make an idle
man.
The difference between good and bad
mothers IS so vast and is SO far reaching
that 1t is no exaggeration to say that the
good mothers of this generation are
building the homes OF the next genera
ton, and the bad mothers are building
the prisons. For out of families nations
are made, and if the father be the head
and the hands OF family, then the
mother is the heart. No office in the
world is so honorable as hers no priest
hood SO holy. no influence so sweet and
so strong and SO lasting.
There are none of us so poor but that
we can train a few roses on the humble
wall and their scent and beauty will long
be remembered, and many a boy. in
stead of going to loaf upon the public
highway will linger at home among the
flowers. Moral degradation always be-
gins at home
What beautiful and tender associations
cluster thick around the word "mem-
ory." The thought of it is very shield;
the name Of it has spell to call back
the wanderer from the path of vice, and
far away where the myrtle blossom and
the palm trees wave, and the ocean
sleeps upon coral strands, to the ex les
fond fancy it clothes the naked rock, or
stormy shore, or barren moor, or wild
height and mountain with charms he
weeps to think of and longs once more to
| see.
Encouragement is something we nat
urally look for. A little praise, and a
word of hope or cheerful smle-some-
thing for the hungry soul to grasp and
the weary mind to rest upon, as we
climb the toilsome mountain of life.
How many poor hearts have sunken
into dependency, when little enCour-
agement has treasured them. The sol
der looks for it on the field of battle; it
is the cheering word of his leader that
urges him on through the danger OF
death and crowns the day with victory.
Fine clothes and costly jewelry do not
convert rough into a gentleman any
more than stove pipe hat makes a man
of monkey. A few smart, well learned
quotations from some eminent authors
will not convey the impression that you
are conversant with literature. You are
very apt to become scorched in the
flames that you kindle, for your literary
companions will soon sound your shallow
depths and your ignorance will appear
more glaring than before.
Whatever place your ambition prompt.
you to select as the field fer your future
labor, however lofty and difficult o.
access the height may be, fit Yourself fol
it by slow and laborious process of study
and toll. Begin at the very bottom
round of the ladder, Law the foundation
firm and secure; build your structure
of your future greatness upon thorough
knowledge of your life work in all of its
bearings. In fact be what you seem, anc
seem to be nothing but what you are.
Let us not wait for the chances fol-
, doing good to come to us, but go on
to meet them. Too MANY beautiful op
portunties may escape us otherwise. A:
charity begins at home. SO should love
We do not care mnch for either the char
: 1ty or the love that would leave its near
} est to want for duty or affection and &c
out into the world to work. We find i
delightful place to make each one o
our home folks happy about some one
thing each day of our life-plan little
surprises Tor their delight. d, little deed.
a Of kindness for them, brighten dull
, hour, or congratulate them upon som,
achievement of their own.
Money is a good thing, especially il
these times. but there is something mucl
more valuable. 1t is character, and thu
consciousness of pure and honest life
: This, it should be Young mans aim t.
4 preserve at any cost.
II Some times the hasty word has beer
: spoken, the sharp snappish word ha
been carelessy uttered in the HON,
circle The true wife's heart so oftel
e bleeds at the bitter. thoughtless, but cut
S ting word of husband. When she i
: dead and gone to heaven, and he weep
over her bier" he will remember it.
!!
Men and women do not need to swim,
. clubs to threaten home concord. TIL,
. husband, armed with a sheer, and TIL
wife who carries waspish tongue ar
:, just as well comparisoned for a dealt
. dealing battle, as though they pounded
each other with baseball bats.
e The woman OF today is a diheren
being from the woman of fifty years ago
The shrinking, trembling, weeping hero
e ines of Thackery and Dickens have dis
! appeared. 1t is better that it is SO No
: only has the woman of today shaken of
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