The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-09-22
HOME Circle COLUMN.
COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE.

The first duty OF man is to
his home. to his wife and his chill
dren. If he is so fortunate as to
have them,
We believe many lives are wreck
ed, not as much by the storms OF
life. as by drifting with the tide
and striking these rocks and com
ing in contact with the hidden sins
and dangers along the shore. Push
out on the deep water. head your
bark up the stream, none but lazy
indolent people drift with the tide.
In the family relation every one
should always be at his best. The
home ought 20 be heaven. IL
ought to be as nearly heaven as
is possible ON earth. There should
be no purposely withered flowers
about the hearthstone and no pur-
posely clouded sunbeams. Selfish
ness alone onght TO be sufficient to
make home conduct exemplary Ger
talnly all want smiles instead Of
frowns.
Do not sit and ponder over trout
BILE; you cannot dispel ii by max
ing yourself miserable. Never look
into the future with despair; you
cannot cross bridge until you
come to it. Don't harrow your mint
over things that cannot be helped
Live conflding in the present The
past cannot now be remedied, aud
you have yet to try the future.
Half the marriages in the world
are nothing but bubbles and barter.
A man wants a wife. He casts
about for an even exchange. In a
year he is tired OF his bargain. In
five years love is dead and cold
proved tolerance inherits loves
garments, In twenty years toler-
ance is at its sgraye and hate reigns
supreme. The wife is naggy and
prickly and peckish The husband
is dogmatical and reticent and mean
But there they hang together on
the bough like two gnarled and
frosted apples. until the winds OF
death dlslodge them and away they
go. The only way to be rid OF
bubble marriage. -marriages that turn
out emptiness with one drop OF
water as the residum. and that
drop a tear-is TO educate our boys
and girls TO something higher than
playing with pise and soapy water
Give them sosmethlng more earn
est to do and see that they do tit.
Compel men and women 10 choose
their life companions with at least
1.-THE OF the solemnity they bring
to the selection OF a carriage horse
or ribbon.
Laughter is day and sobriety is
night, and a smile is the twilight
that hovers gently between both,
and more bewitching than either.
Many a child goes astray, not
because there is want Of prayer or
virtue at nome. but simply be
cause home lacks sunshine. A child
needs smiles as much as flowers
need unbeam.
A. homestead without a pair OF
old folks Times doting chroni-
clesy - seated contentedly in
the chimney corner. would hardly
be a homestead at all. II theye
arc in the picture. It Is complete.
There you may find them, day
in and day out. in all sorts OF
weather, steadfast to their places
and to one another When the
caves drip in the middle of the
winter forenoons, the old man witt
head OF silver abandons his post
and newspaper TO make the accus-
toned tour of the kitchen offices
the shed, or the barn, lingering BY
the way to throw down a handful o.
grain for the pinched poultry. Will
what minuteness he is cautioned b,
grandmother not to go out insuf
ficiently clad, and with what a sin
gle-hearted Joy she Welcomes hin
when he comes back to her again
! Parents, through lack Of recogni
ton OF the individuality of chill
dren, often try to force their mind
as burglar opens safe. usinI
the jimmy of parental command o
the dynamite of punishment. IT 4
so much easier. so much more ef
fective. to find the combination o
the safe, THE individuality of TIL
child that is the key to its menta
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