The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
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Home should be made the most inter-
esting and best loved spot on earth, not
merely four square walls OF wood and
brick it should be the fountain Of civili-
cation the very word should touch
every fiber of the soul and strike every
cord of the human heart with its angelic
fingers, place where that is centralized
on the higher and better things of life,
bringing forth in the highways and by
ways an influence that will be felt by all
with whom it comes in contact. 1t
should be place where the heart is, a
place where our feet may leave but not
our hearts, place where angels unfold
their wings, the place which we love
best, because it is the place where mother
is.
The best brought up family of chill
dren that we ever knew were educated
on the principle of always commencing
them when it was possible to do So and
letting silence be the reproof of any
wrong doing which was not really ser.
ious We have heard that the children
of this household, when their mother had
failed to say any word of commenda-
anxiously as possible, "What was it,
mamma? | know that something was
wrong. Didn't we treat the other chill
dren well, or were we too noisy?" In that
house reproof was never bestowed un-
sought-only commentator of whatever
it was possible to commend, was gratu-
itous. We think that this system would
be just as good for the grown up chill
dren, the husbands and wives, as for
those still in the nursery.
The days come to us like friends in
disguise, bringing priceless gifts from an
unseen hand; but if we do not use them,
they are borne silently away never to
return again. Each successive morning
new gifts are brought but if we fail to
accept those that we're brought to us
yesterday and the day before. we become
less and less able to turn them to ac-
count, until the ability TO appreciate
and utilize them is exhausted, Wisely
was it said that lost wealth may be re
gained by industry and economy; LOST
knowledge by study; lost health by tenn
perance and medicine but lost time has
gone forever.
Some of us, at any rate on both sides
of the Atlantic have begun to realize
that serious study is less likely to injure
women than pinched waists, late hours,
hot rooms and unwholsome food and we
think that it is better for our girls to be
graduated at our schools for science
ct 1ol
think that it will better prepare them for
the grave responsibilities OF matrimony
and motherhood than a rapid life in
which personal adornment is their CHIEF
aim, and how to kill time and secure a
rich husband, their chief anxiety.
The Fourth of July is rapidly becom-
ing day to be dreaded rather than to be
enjoyed. The Fourth of July means the
death of hundreds of children by explo-
sives of different kinds. The daily
papers on the fifth of July never fail to
contain column after column of death
notices from toy pistols, fire crackers and
various kinds of explosives. In New
England the growing disgust that day
which should be hallowed by patriotic
memories should be degraded into day
marked by the killing and manning OF
hundreds, if not thousands of children
and into day of torture for the sick and
the nervous and of dread and anxiety
for the strong and well. The hospitals
of the large cities on the Fourth of July
are filled with youngsters OF all ages, cut
and burned, with their hands torn to
shreds and their sight destroyed and in
jured, and the death due to lock jaw
alone would, if we were not calloused
by custom, cause such an outcry that
those who sell or parents who puts into
the hands of their children the deadly
toys would be held up to general excom-
munication. That there is no exagger-
alton in this statement of the case is
borne out by the newspapers OF the
morning following the Fourth in every
city in the country. Among the sick
and unwell or those who are in the least
nervous the constant din and the sudden
ear-splittlng explosions cause a degree
of misery that in itself would Justify the
suppressions of all explosives even il
they were entirely innocuous to those
that handle them and to surrounding
property. No one has the right to sub
iect others to torture merely to amuse
himself To bring children up delib-
erately to disregard the comforts and
well being of others is to teach license,
not liberty, on the day that should be
consecrated to liberty.
In the home all that is characteristic.
cally feminine in woman unfolds and
hourishes Home without woman is a
misnomer, for woman makes home, and
home is what she makes it. If she is
illitefate, her home partakes then OF
this quality; if she is immoral, her home
cannot be the abode of virtue; if she is
coarse refinement does not dwell where
she resides. If she is cultivated. pure,
refined, those qualities will characterize
the home which she creates. The higher
the degree of her culture, her purity and
her refinement, the more will these
qualities characterize the home of which
she is the center.
When you are tempted to crlticise the
food on the home table, remember that
silence is golden. Criticism is never SC
exasperating to the housekeeper as al
the table, where. in spite of all her hard
work and worry, things will occasionally
appear that are not as she planned
The self that woman takes with hei