The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-11-28
Home Circle Column.
HONE.

The following is a true incident that
came under our observation and may be
suggestive to some:
A young man employed in a city had
not written hone in four months, 0
even to his mother. She ~reproached
him bitterly for his neglect; 50 did his
sister. They lived on a farm, AID his
letters were an event of their lives.
''You ought to be ashamed of yourself
to treat your relatives like that said
a lady to him. ''Well, / know | ought. Z
at least | suppose | ought; but you see
it's like this, I've beer here in town
three years. | work as hard as | can
and watch every opportunity to better
myself honestly. and | really think |
am getting on. need something
Tightening to my life out of worn hours.
But, if you will believe me, in all the
three years I've been here I've never
once had a letter from home which did
not contain bad news or doleful and de-
pressing thoughts that made me blue
for days. It's got so | dread to open a
letter with the home postmark upen it
Every item of disease that affects any
of the family, even to a toothache, is
poured into me. Every letter is full of
moaning about poverty or the failure
of crops, the quarrelsomeness of this or
that neighbor, the dread of a mortgage
on the farm, the creeping of G and
helplessness of my mother n father
and threatened blindness of old Great
uncle Jehosiphat, the fear that brother
Ned is taking to drink, or that sister
Mary is going to marry that ne ac-
count Tom Bradley. If there is moth
ing else, there's a gathering up of all
the scandal garbage in the country, and
it's unloaded on me. | can't stand it
any longer. Mothers letters are so
doleful and miserable and full of anx-
ious, g%raveyardy forebodings that they
almost make me laugh sometimes in
spite of myself. That's the kind of
stuff ones family inficts on it's MEM
bers who are away from home. Never
once anything cheerful or hopeful or
encouraging from any of them. That's
why stopped writing home
THE MOTHERS HAND.
Your mother, who rocked and lula
bied the family brood until they took
wing for other nests and never appre-
ciated what you had done and suffered
for them, will yet be rewarded. Your
hand was well favored when you were
young, and it was a beautiful hand, so
well rounded, SO graceful, that many
admired and eulogized it, and self-sac-
riicing toll for others paled it and the
ring that went on only with a push at
the marriage altar, now Is too large
and falls off again and again until you
have lost it. Poor hand; weary hand;
WORKOUT hand. But God will recon
struct it, reanimate it, readorn it AND
ali heaven will know the story of that
hand. What fallen ones it lifted up,
I What tears it has wiped away; what
wounds it bandaged; what lighthouses
I it kindled; what storm-tossed ships il
brought in to the pier. Roll on, ever.
lasting rest, for all the toiling and mis-
' understood and suffering and weary
children of God, and know right wei
that to join your hand, at last emanci.
pated for the struggle, will be the sof
hand, the gentle hand, the triumphant
hand of Him who wipeth away all tear
from all faces.
Fashionable society is not a promote.
of health and long life. Ultra-fashion
able folks of great wealth find the con
slant round of dressing and driving, o
dancing and dining. of calling and re
ceivirg, so laborious and wearisome I
the flesh that after a few weeks spen
in the giddy whirl, they go to some re
tired country seat, far way from a
gay associates, just such a home a
you and l enjoy all the time, wher
they can eat ana sleep IN quiet, dress
wrappers and slippers, and spend a pc
riod of time in natural, rational life
giving rest, and then return to try III
old life again, like 1.-THE sow that wa
washed to her wallowing in the mire.
1t may cool US off in hot days to thin
about cold weather. For instance,
was so cold in 1882 that two sundoe
froze to death and a farmer took the
hides and made a fur coat for himsel
In 1880 one of our ministers had
night mare which froze her feet so bat
ly that she shed her hoofs. In Is,
some peoples v~eracity froze so hal
thu t it has never thawed out.
There is a great deal said about m
king home attractive so the young pc
pie will not want to wander away fro
it; but it is a private opinion one hard
dares to express that there is too mu,
being done for young America in Il
w~ell-to-do classes; they are coddled a
humored and given places, while t
parents take the rough Ones. until {
parlor has come to be looked upon
their orbit, while the mother Elves a.
moves and has her being in {
kitchen.
The girl with a sweet little vol
need not feel discouraged because s
- has no opportunity to sing in grand G
- era. She can give great pleasure
being a song bird in the home nest; {
if she has a knack with her brush
papcil LET her give her artistic taOdQ