The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-03-17
HOME Circle COLUMN.
COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE.

What q happy world this world
would be IL the innocency of child
hoods tender years could he car
ried through age. So While we are
training them In The way they
sheu'd walk. let us watch our own
footsteps and not cut off their
harmless mirth to suit our tastes !,
that have grown sombre with age
and care.
Be as careful to keep the weeds
out OF the minds OF your children
as you are to keep them out OF
your garden. But remember some
thing yill grow there. IL you
don't plant them with GOOD grain.
the tares will take root
in spite OF you. Keep library
CT good clean books, and ~ all
means keep your home paper be-
fore them.
To make a boy into a rue man,
a mother must do more than pray
She must live with him in the sense
of comrade and closest friend she
must stand by him in time of temp
tatIon as the pilot sticks TO the
wheel when rapids are around. she
must never desert him to go OF to
superintend outside duties any
more than the engineer deserts his
post and goes into a baggage car
to read up engineering when his
train is pounding across the coun-
try at forty miles an hour.
ssSt
Whoever takes a little child into.
his love may have a very roomy
heart but that child will fill it out,
The children keep us from growing
old and cold; they cling to our gar
ments with their little hands and
impede our progress to petrifaction;
they win us back with their plead
ing eyes, from cruel care; they new
or cucumber us at all, A poor Oil
couple with no one to love them, is
a most pitlful picture; but a hoyel
with small face to fill a broken
pane here and there, is robbed G,
its desolateness.
A taste for music, poetry, pic
lures, etc, tends TO destroy the
attraction for the vulgar. A home
of beauty, OF taste and refinement
always tends to elevate and emo
BILE the mind, and cultivate the spir
1t Of contentment, Beauty fills
the world, as we'll as heaven, if
we have eyes to see II. 1t is open
to all. The rose is as fragrant, the
| lily as white and the hyacinth as
delicately blue, when cultivated by
the poor, as by the jeweled fingers
OF the wealthy. ..
1t is the mothers who hold the
world In place. They are the bal
ance wheels of the universe. They
hold the scepter of power by con-
trolling the affections of men. 1.-The
hand that rocks the cradle" has
controlled armies. Marie Theresa
quelled the tumolt Of mighty army
in Austria by raising her fair hand,
and we are told that all was hush
ed to silence, as in clear sweet tones
she spoke, THE bravest battles
that ever were fought have been
fought by the mothers of men"
1t is claimed that all the presi.
dents of the United States had good
mothers. 1t is said that John Q.
Adams until the day OF his death
said the prayer his mother had
taught him, Lincoln said, "All that
am owe to my mother" Gar
| field kissed the wrinkled face of
his mother on the day of his inaug-
uration and said, you brought me
to this" Grover Cleveland said,
WORLDLY honors or worldly per-
plexities will never cause me to
forget the lessons my mother taught
me-" As the shadows lengthen, the
memory of mothers love becomes
intensified. The vision grown dim
with age becomes clear and picture
of childhood days rise before us
in their projections, 1t is well so
few instances are on record where
a mother has failed 10 impress her
children with the value and purity
of mothers love.
Our prisons are rapidly being
filled by those who make the mis-
take of beginning life at the top
Of the ladder.
What are those whom we meet