The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-11-29
HOME Circle COLUMN.
COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE AT
EVENING TIDE.

You know the grievances that be-
set your own path. the shadow that
hangs over your own home. the
fears, often groundless. it lis true. of
Impending calamities that disturb
you. but you cannot lift the cur
tain that conceals your neighbors'
misfortunes; the door will not swing
back to reveal the skeleton in their
closets; and you cannot realize that
every one is loaded as you are.
and every home however. charming
to tho outward, has yet within.
trials as severe as your own, and
heart aches that would make yours
seem light in comparison. We eaca
have our own peculiar troubles as
we have our own countenances and
our own hobbies, and we cannot
escape them.
We are not angels. we are onl1
men and women and we sharo the
imperfections OF manhood and wom-
anhood. We are not perfe i apples,
we are speckled apples. al Of us
do not care how deep ami sweet
and tender and accordant love may
render in home life. Il rannot but
happen that in the close contact in
the everyday openness ani dis
closure OF the home. our bad points
Will come out. No family 10 made
up perfectly OF straight sticks but
crooked ones; and when the. are
piled together In the closrness Of
home life the crookednesS VIII ap' /
pear TIE man and woman married
the most utterly. married along the
whole line of their natures must et
find some point whore there Is not
complete contact. There is dissimi-
larity OF temper. there has been
dissimilarity of education. Before
musicians can pour forth perfect
harmony they must bring their In
struments into tune. Befofc twu
hearts can perfectly strike together
they must be keyed to the same
note. and that cannot be altogether
before marriages. The exact real
self does not appear in courtship.
1t is the best self. the self dressed
In the best wardrobes OF manners
and sentiment and sacrifices that
appears then. After marriage the
self puts on its common habits and
appears for what 1t Is. Then each
real self must adjust itself; then
must each bear and forbear. Then
must any incompatibility be met and
mastered by mutual charity which
suffereth long and is kind. which
never faileth. Now II Is Just here
in this closeness and disclosure of
the home that the heart publication
OF the Blessed Spirit Is most need
ed. and with the sweetness OF en-
during patience and love put under 1
any miserable pride Of self asser-
ton and keep 1t there. Heavenly u
calmness tenderness and self sacri-
flee must dwell in the heart "
each and then shall home be thf
OF Heaven. II
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No true wife can feel truly haI- u
py who is not lovely as wife. Size u
may have every possible material =
and may move in the high Il
est circles; she may have the best q
and brightest friends about her snd Z
may receive from her husbind 0
and still. lacking the assurance that Y
her husband loves her. she must 8
necessarily feel. being a woman. and
/ good woman. that there 10 some
hing lacking. and she Is being de-
rauded and that her welded life
n which she wished to find COM ,
,leteness and Joy, is but hollow Z
nockery after all. For woman Is so
constituted by the Almighty that
he must love and must receive N