The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-07-07
Home Circle Column
Pleasant Evening Reveries---A
Column dedicated to the Tired
Mothers as They Join the Home
Circle at Evening Tide.

Boys, you have but one mother;
care for her and spare her. She is nor
a beast of burden to drive along the
highway of life. There is no love like
your mothers love; you may not
know IL now, but you will some day.
A happy home, whether it consists
of two to twelve members, in one
where love presides at the board and
watches over the couches; where each
/ person loves himself last and consjd-
ers the other tirst; where the irritable
word is restrained and the affec ton
ate thought given utterance, aud
where each is glad in laboring for the
others comfort and relieving the 9TH
er's cares.
! A girl that ia not neatly dressed is
called a sloven, and no one likes to
! look at her. Her face may be pretty,
and her eyes bright, but If there is a
spot of dirt on her cheek, and her
! fingers ends are black with ink, and
| her shoes are not laced or buttoned
up, and her apron is dirty and her
collar not buttoned and her skirt is
! lorn, she cannot be liked. Learn to
| be neat and when you have learn ed il,
it will almost take care of itself.
Never suspect a friend of doing vCu
wrong until the proof of it is as pla'n n
and as clear as the sun at noon on
cloudless day, and then,-yes, even
! then do not accuse or censure until
you have heard from his own lips his
version of the supposed wrong. If
you were ever a friend to him he is
/ certainly entitled to that much for
/ bearauce and consideration. If this
rule was practised, many a misunder-
standing would be averted, and many
heartache spared.
The need of some place to drop
down for a moment and forget things
| is crying one in most homes. There
ought TO be enough sofas around to
accommodate all the family. Five
minutes rest will prevent many fam
lily row, and how can you get rest if
you have to pull shams off the bed and
roll up the overlid. A shabby old
lounge, where you can get at it is
worth its weight in gold; and you
won't want to die half SO many times
If you make use of it.
If you can have help enough to keep
your household machinery in perfect
running order without making a ma
chine of yourself, do so by all means.
White floors are lovely, shining tin
ware is very fine, spotless windows
and highly polished silver are a de-
! light; the mending basket, emptied
every week is much TO be desired, but
there are things of more Importance
and If it all depends on one pair of
hands, one back, and one set of
nerves, for Heavens sake, for your
own sake, for your children's sake,
don't.
If there is one thing above another
young man sohuld be ashamed of
doing, it is loafing without aim or pur-
pose or profit, on the streets or in
stores day after day, AL week. If you
have nothing to do, stay at home-a
part of the time at any rate. No young
man with any self respect will content
himself with aspiring to no higher
reputation than that of chronic loaf
er and store box magDate. Nothing
will SO blunt the higher faculties Of
the mind as inactivity; and no mac
tivity is so baneful and malevolent in
its effect as that voluntary idleness
termed loafing.
Troubles come to all of us. The
past is strewn with broken expecta-
tions and inconsolable griefs. Death
has left its shadows across almost
every heartstone and its const ant raw
ages ever approaching near to us fill
the bravest spirits with terror. But
to us the rainbow of hope has been
exer present. We have never believ-
ed that existence was purposeless.
! The same all-prevailing Power, whose