The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-27
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own opportunities for happiness while he
IS envious of another's. We lose a great
deal of the Joy of living by not cheerfully
accepting the small pleasures that come
to us every day.
The man and woman who try to make
their home the most interesting spot on
earth for each other, and for their friends
and those who are near and dear to
them, have but occasional use for the
club. 1t is to them, like the theatre
a pleasant place to enter now and then
but not spot to dwell in.
The world is full of women who can
amuse an ordinary man. Can sing,
dance or recite for him; can paint write
or decorate i'll a manner most pleasing
but the poor nan often goes begging
for woman who can sew on buttons or
mend his clothes, and who can cook his
food with economy.
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The children whose horizon is brick
wall, who must play on the cobble stones
and 60 swimming in the canal and be
chased by the police. if they do not grow
up to be ideal citizens, shall we of holier
memories sit in judgment upon them?
Shall we not remember the weight that
they carry in the race of life and be
thankful that we live in this beautiful
country of ours?
Some courage is needed to be natural
and higher kind of courage, too, than
that which is needed to march behind
the safe end of gun. That moral cour-
age which is not intimidated by appear
ance nor cowed by custom is a finer
article than the daring of the speculator,
or the steady nerve of the soldier in
physical peril. 1t takes bravery of the
best stamp to be true to oneself.
Would that our charities could strike
deeper, and seek to humanize as well as
feed, encourage and reanimate as well
as clothe. We are all of us apt to gather
up our skirts about us. hold our noses
and avert our eyes while we hand out our
garments and our bread. Blessed be the
soul that is inspired enough to 60 down
into the shadows and lend a helping
hand. TO be very poor, and yet carry
clear life and keep alive ambition and
hope is like seeking TO set white rose
growing in the bosom of coal pit.
The school boy should really learn the
lesson that the ripest biggest cherries are
always at the top of the tree, and that
nine out of ten of his fellows will be
crowding for places TO pick around the
base OF the tree where the small and
wormy fruit grows. There is plenty of
room at the top; there are plenty of
cherries growing there. The luscious
fruit is ready for the picking and ever
smiles welcome to the hustler to climb
up and obtain possession The best
things III life require considerable effort
to get, and that is why the strongest
men and women have them.
1t is not pleasant to record the truth
that there are mothers, who have sacri-
feed motherhood to worldly bition,
and the most unhappy women on earth are
those who have set aside filal ties in
order to live lives of social frivolity, and
the time comes to all such, when the
bloom of youth forsakesthe cheek, and the
fire of youth dies ont of the eye. Such
often turn to their homes for sympathy
and love, only to find that they too have
vanished, and when it is too late the sad
truth dawns upon them that they are
unhonored and unloved. The path of
duty is the only safe path, let it be ever
so thorny, and only safe guide-board
points to the Christian home.
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There should live in the depths of
every human heart one warm and sunny
spot where nestle the images of early love
and the sweet remembrances of the
childhood home. The memory of those
hrst impressions made upon the baby's
mind and heart will live forever. Dear
mothers, shall you permit yourselves to
be numbered about much serving" that
the rich garden of your child's soul will
lie neglected with foul weeds choking out
all worthy and beautiful growth.
Our political speakers appeal only to
partisan feelings and your pocket book.
You never hear them using their elo-
quence in an honest endeavor to better
our homes which are the foundation
stones upon which rests all our laws and
institutions, both State and National.
When the homes are right the entire
country will be right. The questions
that effect the morals and purity of our
homes are the real and vital questions.
The voters who go out from moral, pure
homes, will place moral and pure meQ
in office. who will give us honest and
pure railroad and tariff regulations. All
that we need is moral and pure homes
SO as to supply us with majority OF the
voters
The home that possesses a cheerful
wife and mother is not only vertiabe
haven Of rest, but the safe harbor whose
beacon light will guide her bread winners
safely past all rocks and shoals with
uniailing certainty. The woman whose
cheerful spirit can take that "brave
attitude towards life, that enables her to
bear courageousy the inevitable burdens
of her life's environment, that strength
ems her determination not to fret or
worry those who, for her sake, are fight
ing the hard battles in the world. has
reached that altitude that proclaims her
price above rubies, and her influence and
example are not felt only within the
limits of the four walls she has made the
unassaiable bulwark of State and So
ciety happy home, but reach to those
that she knows not OF.
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1t is the person rather than the occupa-
ton that adds dignity to labor. There
are those who can beautify the most
menial occupation or service and there