The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-10
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There are too MANY fathers who will
tie up The dog at night and let the boy
run loose.
Some women are awful touchy. A
woman has brought suit against a paper
which said that her husband had gone to
happier home.
What is needed most Of all in bringing
up children is example What they see
and hear and take in by absorption in
their young years, will. in most cases,
become the ruling traits Of their lives.
parents rarely realize to what extent they
stand as models to their children.
There is no surer safeguard against
the temptation that come TO young men
and women than a love for home. 1t
has brought back and held many wan
derer in safe place. 1t is something
not only to love home but to know that
you love it-and to know that you are
happier at home than in any other spot
on earth.
The sooner that the children are
brought to understand that idleness is a
crime, and that no amount of fine cult
ure can make them pass for valuable in
the worlds eye If they are unable to earn
livelihood, and so must become mere
hangers on" for others to support, the
better for them That daughter who
helps her mother cook and scrub, is far
more worthy than she who only paints
and plays and obliges her overworked
father to pay servant so that she may
not soil her dainty hands.
There is charity that consists in with.
holding words, in keeping back harsh
judgments, in abstaining from speech
if to speak is to condemn. Such charity
hears the tale of slander but does moi
repeat it; listens to silence but forbears
comment; then locks the unpleasant
secret up in the very depth of the heart.
Silence can still a rumor; it is speech
that keeps story alive, and thus lends
it vigor 1t is in the kind and gentle
heart that charity abides with the peace
fulness of dove. There it makes its
home and by the word withheld, and the
kindly one out-spoken we have the sigr
of the dove Of peace nesting in the
heart. For kind words are like "apples
Of gold in pictures of silver"
OVER DRESS.
Too many mothers consider that theil
children are simply objects for the dis
play of their own vanity and pride. Lit.
tie Mary must he kept in pure, white
clothes all the season through, although
neither the fathers purse nor the
mothers strength is sufficient to provide
the numberless changes necessary. In
stead of dressing the child in sensible
frocks of blue flannel, such as the mil
lionaire's children are not ashamed tC
wear for play dresses, every effort is
strained to reach this false ideal of dress
which the mother has set up for herself
the night. working on dainty gowns in
which the childish impulses for play are
stilled forever in dress array. The over
dressed child is always the unhappy
child. She is very pert Miss who has
learned early to regard over much the
pomps and vanities of life or else she is
a poor, little discoutented victim, who
has never had chance for childish play,
and looks with envy at the ragged,
little, tumbling urchins who makes mud
pies on the road side.
The over dressed boy is even more
unhappy than the over dressed girl.
The Little Lord Fauntleroy boys who
were seen a few years ago in their velvet
suits, although they were very pictur-
esque, were very unhappy set of little
gentlemen, and were probably very
thankful when the fashion changed and
they could wear blue flannel sailor suits
and double kneed trousers. and play
marbles ad libitum DO you like your
suit, Tohnnie?" said visitor to boy in
long blonde curls and Fauntleroy dress.
NAV" he replied. II don't like to be
girl. 1t is my ma that wants me to
be little angel"
How much sacrifice do such poor
mothers make on the altar of personal
vanity and how little time and temper
must be LETT to devote to the spiritual
training of the child. What lack there
is in such a home Of the true spirit ol
motherhood, of that tender care which
the child will remember in after years
and will help to guide him Alright over
the pitfalls that beset every path. The
boy who looks upon his home as place
for the display of nervous irritation thai
comes from overwork, where everything
is sacrificed to the love of show and nc
place is left for the angel of rest and
peace. will leave il at his first oppor
tunity, and at the same time his training
has ill-htted him to meet the great temp
tatIons on the outside.