The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-12-05
Home Circle Column.


The heat of Itself is sufficient burden
when the weather Is hot, without ad-
ding to it irritation over trifles and out
bursts of temper because of petty an
%novances.
Forget it.
By continually thinking of the hot
weather. by keeping an eye on the
thermometer and adding to discomfort
by a fussy disposition, one draws to his
head more blood than that organ should
contain, and the result is misery and
possible p~rostration or sunstroke. The
wise way is to buckle down to business
and
Forget it.
Smile as you sweat. Sweat and
smile. The mental habit of optimism,
which includes forgetfulness of small
things, will make you comfortable even
under uncomfortable conditions; there
fore
Forget it. And also
If something has gone wrong with
the farm or the store, or the shop, or
office, if the pillow is perverse or the
store stuffy, or the shop slow or the Of
flee oppressive, why
Forget it.
Life is too short to treasure up the
trivial. He who does that only heats
his blood and actually poisons it, as
laboratory tests have shown.
Whatever your trouble-it is not as
big as YOU think it is-unless you make
it so by dwelling On it and brooding
over it.
Forget it.
Do not brood. Forget. Do not har-
Dor resentment. Dismiss it. Do not
get warm mentally. You cannot afford
it. Forget it.
Blessed is the man who is wise
enough to forget, so says an Illinois ex.
change, noted for its truthful sayings
WANTED. A GIRL
Yes, wanted a girl--a uaughter--in a
thousand homes, bright, smiling, help
full, always willing to hold the baby,
set the table or aweep the floor, and to
do these things so happily and cheer
fully and well that the baby will crow,
the tabla will look like a we'll balanced
pictuIe, and the careful, critical, grand
mother will find no dust under the
chairs or in the corners of the ROOM.
Wanted, a loving daughter, the touch
of whose caressing fingers brings a hap
ply delight to the weary eyes of father
and mother, the sound of whose CHEEKY
voice and merry laughter is a joy to the
whole household. Where is there a
home in which such a daughter is not
wanted? Does anyone know such a
girl? There is a situation open for her.
She is advertised for, sought for; she
can have any place she wants; the
world is hers. but why are there not
more applicants? All, she is already
occupied. She has a home of her own
which she cannot give up; she is en-
r shrined in the hearts of father and
mother; her brothers have bound her
about with the cords of love, and will
not let her go.
The dea1liest error that can mislead
young men is that in order to know the
world they must disregard home re-
strictions and SOW wild oats. The son
who sows wild oats will reap a harvest
of shame. Nay, more, he will compel
his father and mother to reap with him
and be sharers of his shame. Every son
: needs to be careful of his character. 1t
; is the capital with which he enters bus
mess or begins a professional career. II
it is shoddy or spotted, the best men
will shun him as a deadly poison.
: The old saying that when poverty
comes to the door love flies out of the
window, is like most generalities, only
a half truth. Exteeme poverty is in.
imical to the graces of life and to life
e itself, but there is as much love in the
= homes of poverty as in the homes o.
wealth. 1t is the homes of those il
moderate circumstances, removed alike
from the misery of poverty and ths
ennui and temptations of riches, tina
E, the most enduring affection is found
We are prone to think that wealth is
desirable quality in a suitor, and so i
: is, but it should not be placed in tn,
+ same category with manliness, intelli
! gence and character. A modest com
. petence, with youth and energy to in
crease it as the years pass, is wealtl
+ enough. Life has a deeper interest TO
the young wife who feels that her hus
bands success depends as much upoi
her economy and wise management a
: upon his energy and business capacity
She is earnest and eager to labor an
a save with him that the home may b
built and adorned, that the childre
may be educated and that old age ma
find them in peace and comfort enjoy
ing the leisure they have earned.
What is the good of dwelling upo
Sights or hostilities? Many of ther
are fancied. If we have enemies, lie
us avoid them and refuse to think c
n them. To consider the wrongs that "
think another has put upon US fills U
with anger and all Observation-Disclosures
Let us rather think of our friends VIII
are a source of peace and pleasure an
encouragement, of Christ. who sale
re- Father, forgive them, they know nc
10 what they do and of His apostle WI
wrote to the Corinthians, Charity su
r fereth long and is kind, seeketh n,
!, her own, is not easily provoked 81
:, thinketh no evil