The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-18

Pleasant bCpdtl Circle at
\ Evening Evening
| Reveries mpnf Tide.
The first duty of man IS to his home,
to his wife and his children, if he is so
fortunate as to have them.
We believe that many lives have been
wrecked, not as much by the storms Of
life, as by drifting with the tide and
striking the rocks and coming 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 INDECENT people drift with the tide.
In the family relation every one should
always be at his best. The home ought
to be a heaven. 1t ought to be as nearly
heaven, as is possible on earth. There
should be no purposely withered flowers
about the hearthstone and no purposely
clouded sunbeams. SelfShness alone
ought to be sufficient to make home con-
duct exemplary. Certainly all want
pleasant home. Certainly all want
smiles instead of frowns.
Do not sit and ponder over trouble;
you cannot dispel it by making yourself
miserable. Never look into the future
with despair; you cannot cross a bridge
until you come TO it. Don't harrow
your mind over things that cannot be
| helped. Live conhding in the present.
The past cannot now be remedied. and
you have yet TO try the future.
Half of the marriages in the world are
nothing but bubbles and barter. A man
wants a vile. He casts about for an
even exchange. In year he Is tired of
| his bargain. In five years love is dead,
and coldbrowed tolerance inherits loves
garments. In twenty years tolerance is
at its grave and hate reigns supreme.
The vile is na9gv and prickly and
peckiSh. The husband is dogmatical
| and rciiCient and mean. But there they
! hang together on the Dough, like two
snarled and frosted apples, until the
winds of death dislod9e them and away
! they 90. The only way TO be rid of bub-
| bic Understanding that turn out
| with emptiness, with one drop of water
as the resdum, and that drop a tear-s
to educate our BOYS and girls to some
thing higher than playing with pipes and
| SOapy water. Give them something
| more earnest TO do and see that they do
! ii Compel men and women 10 choose
their life companions with at least a
1.-THE OF the solemnlty that they bring to
the selection OF carriage horse or a
piece of ribbon.
Laughter is day and sobriety is night,
and smile is the twilight that hovers
gently between both, and is more be-
witching than either.
Many a child goes astray, not because
| there is want of prayer or virtue at
home, but simply because their home
lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as
much as the flowers need sunbeams.
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A homestead without a pair of old
| folks-"Time's doting chronicles
ner, would hardly be a homestead at all.
If they are in the picture then it is com
plete. 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 with head OF silver abandons his
post and newspaper to make the accuS-
! toned tour of the kitchen offices, the
she'd or the barn, lingering by the way
| to throw down handful of grain for the
punched poultry. With what minuteness
he is cautioned by grandmother not to
| 90 out insutfiCiently clad. and with what
single-hearted Joy she welcomes him
when he comes back TO her again.
Parents, through lack of recognition Of
the individuality of their children, often
| try to force their minds as a burglar
| opens a safe, using the jimmy of parental
| command, or the dynamite Of punish
ment. 1t is so much easier, so much
more natural, so much more effective to
| find the combination of the safe-the in
divduaity OF the child that is the key
to lis mental and moral processes and
pecuiarties! Then the mind opens to
truth naturally, simply and automatically
| A bud does not become a flower BY
irreverent fingers forcing its delicate
| petals apart; it requires merely self rere-
lAton, self development, through self ac
tivity, natural unfolding, normal growth
III harmony with its environment.
We know from sad experience that it
is very announcement to be poor. hui 40
man is poor who has a happy home and
it does not require lace curtains or relve,
carpets TO make home happy.
| DO not ask The teacher or some Class.
mate to solve that hard problem for YOU.
| Do it Yourself You might as well let
| HIM eat your dinner as TO let nm do
your sums" for you. 1t is in studying
as in eating; he who does il gers the
| benefit, and not he who secs it done.
The mother who radates peace, rad
ateS strength also. The reStessn-ss, the
noise, the rush OF the life OF to-day. al ike
| il all the more necessary 10 malntaiu
within the home an atmosphere of Sc
renlty aud sweetness, SO that. the lhreSh
! old once crossed, the outside noise and
CHATTER aud strife are left securely behind
This is, perhaps, an old fashioned con
ccption Of home.
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If one desires to improve in manners
he can never do SO, except by minglng
with the refined and good. Dffdence
often keeps back those who have had in
early life but few social advantages. The
oulv Way to overcome this painful diff