The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-01-12
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.

The girl with a sweet voice need
not feel discouraged because she has
no opportunity to sing in grand opera.
She can give great pleasure by being
a songbird in the home nest.
Love is the great homemaker, that
makes even drudgery of housekeep-
ing pleasure, and home life fore
taste of the bliss of heaven. One
cannot get too much love into ones
homemaking, but easily too little.
| There is no such thing as mans
rights and woman's rights separate
and distinct from each other. Wom-
ans rights are simply human rights.
| The sexes belong to each other; what
benefits one helps the other; what ell
evates either uplifts both. Man is the
outdoor and woman the indoor part
ner in the firm of humanity.
If you want to be happy forget your
selves and think of some one else and
If possible do something for some one
else. Read to an old lady; send a
bunch of flowers to sick friend; dry
the tears of lonely child; say kind
word to a poor discouraged washer
woman. speak with voice which
shames the whine and whimpers of
| another.
| Fathers now basking in the sunset
of life may not readily recall all
their early experiences in life, their
struggles and triumphs of their child
hood home, the playhouses they help
| ed their sisters build are photOgra-
| phed upon the hearts tablet and will
| never fade away. The golden light of
eternity will not dim the brightness
Of this picture. one will never forget
| the place Of his birth, the little broken
card, the sled and kite, and the older
brother who led the way to the hill
side where the fairest wild flowers
bloomed. These sacred memories will
never grow less bright or dim with
age.
| There should be no day in our lives
| that did not record some act of kind
ness, some help held out to the needy.
One self-denying act or some kind
word, or a pleasant glance, has fallen
like sunshine or ceased an aching
heart. There is no act intended to
| help another, too small for the Mas
| ter's notice. 1t is the conscious atten-
ton to what the world calls little
things that makes the great beauty
and success in life.
| Let our homes be places of love, Joy
and brightest sunshine, places of en-
during love that outlasts the wedding
day, and which produces a life of one
long unbroken honeymoon, the mold
| ing place of character, place where
the child breathcs an atmosphere per-
! fumed 10y the choicest flowers of heay-
en-, where it finds the greatest earthly
security in mothers loving, fostering
care.
| How often is a fine nature warped
a really good disposition spoiled by
the omission of few timely words of
encouragement. A child receiving
nothing but blame and constant scold-
ing, in time becomes deaf to correc-
tion sullen and defiant, and in the end
one of those children who neither
| hears nor needs. On the other hand
a child that is occasionally encourage
ed, is proud of pleasing another, CON
scquently is pleased with himself and
urged to renew eXertions TO gain n
repetition of that praise so dear to the
human heart be that heart young or
old.
y model husband may be a day la
borcr who returns to his home at
night with a hard earned dollar clasp
ed in his honest hand, and adds it to
the family fund to be used to provide
necessary comforts for the family. He
shares faithfully with his wife what
ever he may earn by trade or profess
sion. When business matters perplcX
he does not 90 home with a woeful tale
of his hardships and turn the bright
side of his character to his associates,
but he comes into his home with a
cheerful face that inspires his wife
with new courage after a day of per
picking duties which women alone
have to meet, and in their monotony
become distasteful to the most patient
Of them.
The ethics of home correspond in
large measure with ethics Of society.
All these virtues which are crowned
Jewels of the highest civilization have
their inception in the home. The glory
and charm Of womanhood and man
hood the incest Of character which
give distinctiyeness and beauty to
childhood and youth the adjustments
Of personal and domestic relations with
in the home, the education Of the i'm
pulses, budding susccptibilitics and
growing powers Of children, all fall
within the powers of home ethics. No
where else can the abstract virtues OIL
practical duties be more fOrcibly dis