The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-04-19


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| Evening Evening
| 1 Reveres. mHnf Tide.
No matter how your mothers may
speak, their hearts are sure to be in the
right place; if their attire is little old
fashioned and their manners not up to
the frllls of the twentieth century stand
ards, they have had experience of far
more value than all of the schooling and
extra accomplishments that YOU may
think of such shining excellence. Heed
! your mothers words-you will surely
never regret it.
| 1t is the mother of the household
whose life is chiefly threatened by monot-
| ony. She stays at home. She is always
in the house, seeing the same things,
| hearing the same voices, and doing the
same work day after day with unfailing
| regularity. The demands upon her time
and strength and love and patience are
increasing and the great wonder is that
she does not break down more fre-
quentlY than is actually the case.
Girls, listen TO your mothers; they are
| your wisest teachers, your best Coun-
! selors, and even though you have re-
Ceived college education; and the dear
one who in all probability has denied
! herself to give it to you has never got
| beyond the third reader, you can rest
assured that it is not book learning that
will keep your feet away from the many
pitfalls that she can warn you from in
tender, loving fashion, that you will do
well to heed.
One reason why some men do not get
along better in this world is because
they have not the proper stmulant in
their homes. Their homes lack those
| little touches of refinement which bring
the best out of them. Neatness and
taste are possible in the poorest homes
! Let woman make the atmosphere as
! dainty as her means allow, and she will
raise her husband to the same standard.
And as she elevates him the efforts is
felt upon herself her children, her home,
and her future.
When you want to get your grandest
| idea Of a queen, you do not think of
Catharine of Russia, or of Anne of Eng
| land, or OF Marie Theresa, of Germany,
but when you want to get your grandest
idea of queen you think of the plain
woman who sat opposite to your father
at the table or walked with him. arm in
arm down life's pathway; some times to
the Thanksgiving banquet, some times
| to the grave, but always together -Sooth-
ing your petty griefs, correcting your
childish wayWardness, Joining in your
| infantile sports, listening to your evening
prayers, toiling for you with the needle
or at the spinning wheelednd on cold
nights wrapping you up snug and warm.
''Mother! Mother" All, she was queen!
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Many women are martyrs, and yet
they do not know it. They shut the
sunshine out of their houses and their
hearts, they wear wells, they carry
parasoIs, and they do all things possible
to keep off the subtlest and yet most
potent influence which is intended to
give them strength, beauty and cheer
fulnesS.
Do not diStrust your friend. You may
not always understand his actions and
consequently you may not interpret them
Alright. If he is mpusive he may not
always act in accordance with your ideas,
he will make mistakes and perhaps
stumble by the wayside. But if he is
your friend stand up for him and believe
in his goodness and virtue, and his de-
sire for your welfare. Remember that
you cannot see his heart and there is
more of nobility and goodness than APP,
pears on the surface. You cannot afford
to distrust him, for real friendship is
rare. Do not hold Yourself aloof from
him, but encourage him by your counsel,
precept and example. Help him if he
is weak, and encourage him if he falters.
His heart will go out i'll gratitude, and
you both will have made the world
better.
Would it not be a good plan for the
girls in country neighborhoodS to form
classes and get a competent, experienced
dressmaker to teach them the principles
Of dressmaking. 1t is a satisfaction to wear
well fitting stylish dresses, though they
need not be, and if home made, would
not be, expensive ones A perfect fitting
waist pattern once secured-and this the
teacher should be able to give them
endless variety may be made by different
materials and modes of trimming. When
their course of instruction was finished,
the class might subscribe for two or three
of the best fashion monthies and thus
keep up with the best new modes. They
could and should be able to help one
another in the parts of fitting that one
cannot do for herself, and be gaining at
the same time an art useful to them
all of their lives.
If all of the members of family were
rs courteous and kind to each other as
they are to strangers, what a difference
it would make in the home atmosphere.
We never knew a man who was faith
full to his early and adopted home who
was given over at the same time to any
gross form of wickedness. If you find
, more enjoyment in the club room, in
the literary society, in the art saloon,
than you do in these unpretending home
pleasures, then you surely are on the
road to ruin.
All of the elegance in the world will
not make home and a spoonful of love
exceeds whole shiploads of furniture and
all of the poroeousness that The world can