The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-09-01

| lutned roses ABOUT you Tor ages without
once being mistaken for rose.
Let it be the aim OF every young man,
every business man, above all things else,
to keep his purity sustained This is the
best possession-this is a capital which
can never be taken from him-this is the
richest inheritance which he can leave to
his children.
Sarcasm and nagging are to the atmos-
phere of love what sand-fiies and heaS are
to summer weather Who would not
prefer an occasional brush with roaring
June bug, to the eternal torment of a flea
you can't catch?
We think home love is the best The
love that you are born to is the sweetest
that you will ever have on earth. You,
| who are anxious to escape from the home
nest, pause moment and remember that
this is so. 1t is right that the hour should
come when you in your time should be.
come wife and mother and give the best
love to others, but that will be Just it.
Nobody, not lover. not husband, will
ever be SO tender or so true as your
father or mother. Never again after
strangers have broken the beautiful bond,
will there be anything so sweet as the
little home circle of mother, father and
children, where YOU were cherished,
praised, protected and kept from harm.
Now we want to say something to hus-
bands. These dear aggravatng, indis.
pensable creatures, that there is hardly
any living with or without. If your wife
or daughter has been bending over the
hot stove and sewing machine all day,
she needs to ride out in a vehicle or horse
back. Don't think we are a fit subject
for lunatic asylum if we tell you to stop
horse out of 'the crap" and take her or
let her 60 by herself if she is not afraid.
There is no more sense in Incorporate
work than Incorporate rest. You may
have to stop longer to pay the bill. You
will be sorry some day when those tired
hands hold white flowers under pail
that you did not look more after her
health and comfort
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Give us the woman who is willing to
adapt herself to circumstances, and who,
after an exertion OF efforts has such an
undylng faith, her motto is Though he
may slay me, yet will trust Him" The
woman who will not be miserable over
the past, but will cling 10 the future with
hope, for hope is the blossom OF happi-
ness; The woman not afraid to superlntend
her domestic affairs and then grace her
parlor with as much dignity and conf
dence as if she were the wife of the Presi,
dent Of the United States; the woman
who would cling to her husband through
! haf
him for bstter or worse.
Do not we all remember with pleasure
the days when ''the others were out. or
we perhaps, not perfectly well, and
mother had US in her drawing room. or
took us out for a little walk alone? Not
that we did not love to romp and pla
Not that we did not appreciate to the full
the picnics and other family expeditions
which took place from time to time; but
there was enjoyment of a very different,
deeper sort in those quiet times with
mother, the remembrance of which has
lasted half lifetime.
There is vast difference between a
house and home. The house is but the
building and furniture, the outward shell
ter and gathering place of the household.
The home includes the kindly family af-
fecton, the thoughtful care and ready
sympathy and mutual confidence and
trust OF members. A true home breathes
the atmosphere of love.
We know that lips will curl with scorn.
and society will sneer, if we reach our
hand to the outcast but God and the
angels will be glad, and il a soul be thus
saved. what matters it?
Flirting may seem to the giddy and
thoughtless girl wonderfully amusing and
she may get the idea that she is fascinat-
ing, but it is most degrading thing and
she should be irowned upon by every
young lady who has an ambition to be-
come worthy and charming young
woman.
For good, everyday household angel
give Us the woman who laughs. Her
biscuit may not ALWAYS be Just right and
she may occasionally burn her bread and
forget 10 replace dislocated buttons, but
for solid comfort all day and every day
She is very paragon. Home is not 4
battlefield, nor life one long unendng
row.
Our habits are formed under the mould.
ing power Of home The tender twig'
is there bent, the spirit shaped, principles
implanted and the whole character is
formed until it becomes a habit The
gray barred father who walks in the sec
ond infancy, feels the traces of his child
hood home in his spirit, desires and
habits.
OF one thing we are certain, we are too
chary OF our commentators too stingy OF
Of our praise, and alas too lavish Of our
blame. Thoughts are things" aud
words, if true, are their manifestations
How often have we thought favorably OF
many things, vet said no word For all
such sins of commission we must ever suf-
fer deep regret How easy il would have
been to have said, That is so beautiful
or how we'll you dol"
Fire Discovered in Time.