The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-12-05

impressionable age. Where will you
have their impressions come from
from the riff-raff of the streets, or
from home? 1t is for the mothers Of
this town to settle the question.
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Woman.
Woman, wherever found, Is the
same kind, civil, obliging, tender,
being inclined to be gay and cheer
full but timorous and modest.
There Is in every woman's heart
spark OF heavenly fire which
beams, and blazes in the hours Of
adversely, and men can be great
when great occasions call, In little
duties women fill their sphere, mar
row cares that cluster round the
breath.
She Is the beautiful mosaic arch
in the common home; the every day
home where men entertain angels
unawares and where she smoothes
TO placid peace the rough and rug
ged places in the highways OF ex-
istence. II taken in the abstract, wo-
man Is superior to man in this, l. e.
that pain and anguish, grief and
sorrow, afflitd on and poverty, are
but stepping stones on which she
81 mbs above the narrow sphere
hich he calls life and she 1t is
who Is last ut the cross and earliest
AT the grave" While her heart Is
loyal to home, love and duty, her
head often gets light as air and by
reason OF conflicting circumstances
she is easily influenced and led a
stray.
Fashion, that inyidious siren, Is
one OF the chief tempters and but
very few women can resist her art
less caprices
IT'S said that Satan employed
Fashion to assist him in the down
TAIL OF the human race and perhaps
the aphorism Is correct for this
earthly idol is worshipped in many
homes, and II the love of money is
the root OF all evil, the love OF dress
is the main trunk OF the tree OF ex-
trayagance which is too often wreck
ed in the tempest OF bankruptcy.
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A loving, good mother is a treas
ure above all others OF an earthly ma
ture. as she never feels any sacrifice
TOO great, any anguish too keen, any
shame SO dreadful, any tate SO over
whelmingly terrible. as to transcend
the endurance or crush the power
OF mothers love Mrs, Wilson says
and truly she spoke, that under
an invincible inspiration, when dan
ger threatens her darlings, she
knows no self disgrace. death al
firights her not, she extends her arm
TO arrest every approach, offers her
own breast as shield against darts,
bullets, sword thrusts, and counts
1t privilege 10 lay down her lie
in defense OF those loved ones" .,
loyalty, supreme, sublime, immortal.
| Thy name is mothers love. Her
very existence is interviewer with
her children, tthelr counselor, com
rorter and guide: therefore we should
highly prize and sacredly cherish
that valuable jewel. a good mother
This world is so dreary when we att
bereft OF mother, yet so few appre-
ciate her as We should, for what Is
home without mother?
| Look over your list of friends ano
acauaintances and note their course
Did you not find on examination
that those who today are men of in
| fluence and honor were the youths
who made the most of their yaiu'
able time, turning 1t to good ac.
count? And on the other hand dc
you not find those who stood at the
corners with cigar or pipe in theh
mouths, went from bad to worse
| from worse to ruin?
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The mother who allows the blues
and sulks TO overshadow the home
v no allows herself TO be moody and :
fails in chief duty
aud places handicap on her nus
band and children in the race OF
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