The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-04-07
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your Preside with pleasantness, rekindle
the fires of love in your wife's bosom
and brighten the hopes and aspirations
of your children. Cheerfulness is much
better than the doctors medicine, and a
cheerful home is an earthly heaven.
Let the sunshine into the gloomy
rooms, have a couch to lie on. a piano
to play on; in fact home to live in; and
wherein sense of hospitality and OF
good cheer exudes from the very table
and chairs, instead of mausoleum of
gloomy elegance, wherein every thing IS
for show and nothing to be used.
The gleeful life of happy children is
the best home music and the graceful
| figures of childhood are the best stat
uary. We are all kings and queens in
the cradle. A home without a child!
1t is like lantern without a candle; a
garden without flowers; a vine and no
grapes; brook and no water gurgling
and gushing in its channel.
Home should be Just one blaze of
light and sunshine. But it can not be
while some member of the family circle
is swapping and fault finding and selfish.
Do people ever go more deliberately
and insanely at work to make themselves
miserable than they do when they delib-
eratelv cloud the lights of the only place
on earth where they have any reason
to expect anything likesAshect quiet and
happiness?
Cultivate a cheerful disposition. Do
not wrap up all of your interest, all of
your thoughts and ambition in self.
Seek to please those with whom you
associate, and above all strive to tighten
the burdens and hours of the ones at
home who call you husband, father or
brother. Whatever may be your disap-
pointment, or how heavy the cross that
you bear, do not go over the threshold
of your home with a sullen, cherries
countenance.
Who but women-when Judas be-
trayed and Peter denied and the weary
| slept, and the fearful led-could sum-
| mon energy to linger around the spot,
to mingle the tears of pity with the blood
of suffering? Who but woman. when
the man turned coward and his trust
grew faint, could stand until the last by
the dying Saviour, and then go to
trim the lamp of her devotion at the
door of the sepulchre?
Kind words bring memories that echo
through the years long after the lips that
have uttered them have crumbled to
dust Children carry the memory of
the words of appreciation with them
| through childhood and often recall them
| in old age when developed in the shad-
ows of life. They are like the perfume
of the violets that lifts their heads above
the spring SHOWS and whispers to them
of the sunshine Money cannot buy,
intellect cannot create so rare a gem as
true kindness. 1t is heart product and
needs the tenderest of culture. 1t is
killed by indifference and enfeebled by
neglect.
We feel animated to struggle more
manfully in the great battles of life when
we remember our mothers holy counsel
to us in childhood's early dawn, and in
the slippery paths of youth. All those of
tenderness those pious precepts softened
by mothers love" much I'M
needed then, and disregarded-live now,
frightened I'm memory. and constitute
our sweetest recollections. Her prayers
for us in childhood-her sparkling, crys-
tai tears, made an impression on our
young minds as durable as time and
even now they bid us walk in the paths
| of rectitude.
That there is God all nature declares
in language too plain to be misappre-
hended 1t is written over the face of
the whole creation. You see it in the
tender blade just starting from the earth
in the early spring and in the sturdy oak
that has withstood the blasts of four
score winters. The purlng rivtilet me-
andering through the downy meadows
and verdant glens and Niagara's tremen-
dous torrent leaping over its awful
chasm unite in telling us Of a God.
Show these beautiful arched heavens
to your children and explain to them
these poets while their young minds are
SO tender and easily improved.
A woman who is capable Of filling her
home in every sense of the word is
worthy of more true applause than if she
possessed many accomplishments. We
are often very much impressed by the
woman who is doing a great and good
work for the benefit of humanity, but
the one who retains our. respect is the
true wife and mother, who presides over
her home and children with head and
heart, demonstrating kindness and ability
which puts the blush on the public life
Let the parents, the father as we'll as the
mother, impress upon their young
daughters, whether they are in the coun-
try school house or college, that the
true woman's sphere is in the home, and
the great business and educational worlds
that have thrown wide open the doors
for women does not detratct one iota
from the importance Of her sphere.
! Many soldier who bravely stood at
his post of duty for two or three years
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