The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-05-09
HOME lIRCLE COLUMN.
COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE AT
EVENING TIDE.
Keep A STIFF Upper Lip.

The most perilous hour of a per-
sons life is when he is tempted to
despond. The man who loses his
courage loses ALL There is. no more
hope for him than there Is. for a
dead man. 1t matters not, however
how much he may be pushed by cir
cumstances IL he only keeps his
courage up. holds up his head and
with unconquerable will determines
20 be and do what becomes a man;
all that makes or unmakes. Keep
q stiff upper lip. Realize that sue
cess or failure depends, after all,
on you and you alone. A man makes
his own bed and must lie on 1t. So
make up your mind that you will
succeed and then get down OF work
with determination. THE road to
wealth is as easy as the road to
market" You must call to your aid
all that can honestly assist you; can
help you invest your savings, how
ever small; that can invite you to
further thrift; that can develop in
you the courage and cheerfulness,
Did you ever visit your child
hoods home? Well we remember
the last visit to our own. The old
house still stands, but what is 1t
to US now that mother is not here,
and my little brothers are all with
her over beyond the wide river,wait-
ing for us in house not made with
hands. 1t is the shell without the
kernel. 1t is like the body after the
spirit has departed and can inspire
no Joy only as 1t calls up the
sweet memories of old delights. A
retrospection OF our childhood home
Is good for us. 1t teaches US how
fleeting time is; how the sweetest
and best of life's joys must pass
away. and how all important to be
diligent in our efforts to make our
election sure for that changeless
kingdom where there is no parting. |
The very best monuments that can
be erected to our memories here
are the living ones we have reared !
by good deeds in the hearts that are
left behind
l1..l-s-4- +.
1t is but for day-one day at a
time and that is all. 1t may be
day Of JOY or grief. of ease or pain,
with its closing; these end up to the
last hour of the twenty-four to re-
turn to US no more Whatever may
be in store for us in the future, the
scenes Of the past shall know no
tomorrow, and the scenes of tomor-
row., and the scenes of tomorrow
will soQn,be numbered with the past
The idnan of wealth and fame Is hur-
ried along on the swift wings of
time, as rapidly as the poor man
with his heavy burdens.
no slower. Days come and go. with
their clouds and their sunshine, their
lights and their shadows. and with
their coming and their going, hurry
US all to the approach of that day
that will come but never go. In that
one eternal day we shall reap the
harvest from the seeds sown in this :
life And what shall the harvest
be?"
We are prone to think of age as
An unlovely time, an undesirable
hing. but surely there are compen-
lations in being seventy years young
Life has taught us its lessons and
We are no longer assailed by doubt
Ind uncertainty. Life has brought
o us no burden that we could not
rear. and we can face it serene and
earless- We have earned the right
" years of labor and conflict. to do i
ust as we please. to rest upon our