The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-21
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The wives and the mothers OF a cen
tury ago were proud to exhibit the result
| of their industry in the manufacture of
cloth and the marking of garments for
their families. There is no call for such
work in our day, yet there are enough
calls to duty in every home to employ
the housekeeper. Home to many women
! means nothing more than a laundry
where they take their clothes to be
washed and ironed; to the man a place
to eat and sleep, their evenings being
largely spent at the clubs and billiard
halls. The old-fashioned home keepers
have become almost lost quantity So
cieties of various kinds occupy the
greater portion of their time. The chill
dren are sent to school at the age of six
and the mothers are at liberty to fit
about until they return at noon when the
lunch of food, prepared outside of the
home. is placed before the family, and
the duties until high twelve are dis
charged.
Get the whine out of your voice or it
will stop the development and growth
of your body. 1t will narrow and also
shrink your mind. 1t will drive away
your friends and it will make you very
unpopular Quit your whining; brace up;
go to work; be something; stand for
something; fill your place in the world
Instead of whining around exciting only
pity and contempt face about and make
something out of Yourself Reach up to
the stature of strong, ennobling man.
hood, to the beauty and strength of a
superb womanhood. There is nothing
the matter with you. Just quit your
whining and 60 to, work.
The man who measures his acts by
what the law allows him to do is not so
good neighbor as the one who meas
ures his acts by "Do unto others as YOU
would have them do to you." The law
is made for the first. the second does
not need it.
Do not find all of your "good people"
among the departed, but seek to dis
cover a few among the living 1t will
make you and the world happier to get
into the habit.
A hungry heart, which is destined
never to be fed, is one of the saddest
| spectaCleS ever witnessed in this world
of ours. If you have word to bestow on
your wife-if it is due, bestow it Do
not wait until she is dead, and then be
forced through your binding tears to tell
your heart in its wild throbbing that you
have lived dual life by sitting
thoughts and keeping back words that
would have brought a flush of pleasure
to her cheeks, old as she is. and set her
heart to dancing with a pleasure only
known to those who have had their hun
cry hearts fed by words of praise and
recommendation.
The trick of always seeing the bright
side, or if the matter has no bright side
OF shining up the dark one, is very i'm
portant faculty; one of the things that no
woman should be without We are not
all born with sunshine in our hearts, as
the Irish prettily phrase it, but we can
cultivate cheerful sense of hnmor if we
only try.
Is there any satisfaction in room the
furnishings of which cost hundreds of
dollars, when it is only open at rare
intervals, while the owner perhaps sits
by the kitchen fire or in some dingy
sitting room, where he can put his feet
on the fender if he wants 10, can smoke,
and as geart indulgence, tilt back in his
chair?
Take the sermons that you hear
preached home to yourself If you di-
vide them and parcel them out to your
friends and neisnbors, and the people
in the pews around you, there will not be
much of the good seed of the gospel"
left to bear fruit for yourself.
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Man can go through all of the world,
he may run through every stage of belief
and disbelief, but there will be one pict
ure that he cannot efface. Living or dy-
ing. there will rise up before him like
morning star the beauty of that remem-
bered goodness which he called
mother"
Those who habitually correct their
children in their faults by whipping and
boxing them, must not be surprised
when they find them slapping them in
return and rough and abusive towards
one another. They are simply irving
to enforce their own little ideas of right
in the same manner as they have seen
their elders do.
The poet and the artist, the writer and
the musician look to the world to ac-
knowledge their genius and give them
praise 1t is encouragement which calls
| forth their noblest words to climb the
mount of fame until they surmouut all
difficulties and write their names in fam
ing letters upon its summit. Then let us
give encouragement to each other in
every effort of good, in every noble ac-
ton in the little duties of life, and we
will be happier for it, the world will be
better and a smiling Providence will
look down and bless our labor of love.
Take people by the hand whom you
really wish to help. Do not stand on a
high pedestal and tell them to do them
selves the honor of jumping to your level.
Either go to them kindly and extend to
them the friendly hand of Christian fel-
lowship or let them alone.
Old people have faults, like children,
but they have no mothers to forgive
them.
Honesty is never gained or lost sud
denly, or by accident, but idleness feeds
upon it, and will, in time, use up the last
vestige. The happy home, be it cot
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