The citizen., 1911-09-22

WIN sonhc people knowledge OF
housework is ridiculed, but person who
does not give housekeeping a place
among the fine arts shows an intellectual
callbre away down below the common
place.
Supplement what the children learn at
school with reading lessons at home.
Reading aloud is good, as it will i'm
prove the reading OF the reader, and also
give information to the members of the
nome circle who may be obliged to work
with their hands in the evening.
You will often advance your interests
more by spending social evening with
a respectable family, than you will by
sitting in your room and poring over
your money matters or writing a whole
package of business letters.
The glad hearts. How welcome they
are in this old world. The hearts that
wear smiling face and extend the glad
hand. Thev scatter sunshine wherever
they go. They inspire us with good
thoughts and the desire to do nobler
things. They smooth down the rough
places in life. They remove the obstacles
from our paths, and thus sweeten the
pleasures of this old world.
1t is often by doing too much for the
children, by over government, over
indulgence, or over-anxiety, that their
individuality, their aggressive, vital inti-
ative quality, their self dependence and
sell reliance, are weakened Henry
Ward Beecher SAYS: "Many children
grow up like weeds under a glass.
| They are surrounded only by artificial
| and prepared influences. They are house
bred, room bred. nurse bred, mother
bred-evervthing but self bred The
object of training is to teach the child to
take care Of himself; but a great many
use their children only as a kind of
spool on which they reel off their own
experience, and they are bound and
corded until they perish by nanity or
break all bonds and cords and rush to
| ruin by inaction."
Young men, study yourselves. choose
your work and if it satisfies YOU move
on. Bid defiance to all obstacles. Don't
surrender to phantomS--they will ever
challenge YOU; fight it out on some line
If it takes all summer" Our boats
are headed up the river and Just so sure as
we drop the oars, SO sWe we will float
down. Keep on rowing.
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The cottage and The mansion differ very
much in structure and in furniture, but
a pretty flower carefully watered and
tended. blooms as well in a cottage as
IN palace window Then the flower
! speaks to the inmates of the home and
! tells them OF the wisdom and love Of
! God; how He sent these beautiful flowers
into the world to please the eye Of man.
Show us boy who obeys his parents.
who has respect for age, who always has
a friendly disposition, and who applies
himself diligently to gel wisdom and to
! do good towards others, and if he is not
respected and beloved then there is no
| such thing as truth in the world. Re-
member this, boys, and YOU will be
respected by others, and grow up and
become useful men.
Legislate laws against early marriages
II can not tolerate children" said a
little slmpleton to us the other day, but
| adore dogs" and yet that girl had an
engagement ring on her finger There
| should be special seclusion for such
| girls until they develop some instinct
! of womanliness and should no more be
allowed TO marry than a Choctaw chief
should take care of a kindergarten.
There is a wise old German saving
that ''only god or brute can dwell
in solitude Men and women need
congenal companionship, both for the
sake OF health and happiness. Just as
your lungs, after using up all of the
oxygen in close room, need to be filled
with fresh out of door air, so your mind
needs contact with other minds in order
| to get new ideas. There is such a thing
as mental as well as physical hunger
| Herders on the cattle ranches of the far
West frequently go mad from the isola.
ton they are forced to endure Women
an lonely farms and small villages grow
morbid and mildly insane, and the
people do not guess that the cause is
the want of companionship.
Why is it that good mechanics oI
almost every kind are so scarce, and are
commanding their own price, while so
many young men are turning their backs
upon their fathers calling, and living in
wait for an opportunity to measure calico
between dingy walls for fourteen hours
a day for a mere pttance.
How much would neighbors rise ir
value, and how much would neighbors
rise in beauty, if all should lay aside
the habits of criticism, and neighborhood
scandal, and petty feuds and ridicule
And il men should study the things that
make for peace and happiness, every.
body trying to make everybody else
happy, what revolution there would be
Let the idle young men go to worl
on the farms, and quit seeking third anc
fourth rate clerkships. In short, go tc
farming, and quit begging.
| A healthy child is always active. Il
must jump and scream, fall down or,