The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-01-10
Home Circle Column.

Don't work too hard. God meant US
to work every day until we are weary,
but not until we are so weary that a
| nights rest cannot revive and restore
US to strength and vigcr again. When
you rise morning after morning with
weary limbs and heavy heart, you may
know that you are breaking the laws
of health and that your punishment is
and will be heavy. You must let go
, somewhere. The world, your family
and friends have no right to demand
from you more than you can do. and If
you are a wise woman you will not give
all the strength and beauty of your life
to labor and have only the dregs left
for love. Keep enough strength, take
enough rest to preserve a cheerful
heart and a bright face, when the fam
lily gather about the fireside after the
days work is done. Do one thing at a
time. Don't hurry, don't worry. Face
the issue of life fairly and squarely; do
your share of the work, that is, what
you can do without injuring yourself,
and put the rest absolutely behind you.
Take some relaxation. Every human
being needs recreation and amusement
of some sort. Get it from books or
people with news and helpful thoughts,
that will keep your ideas bright and
your heart cheerful.
The best society for the suppression of
pernicious literature is the family. The
best Legislation that can be passed for
for the prevention of the sale of vile
literature can be passed by the father
and mother. Daily teaching to love
and study good and useful things will
bring the boys and girls to detest the
opposite.
Don't scold your wife. If you must
scold somebody, scold US.
What is needed in the training of the
tots is more patience while their minds
are developing. Let them see gentle
ness and by and by they will adopt it.
Let us act ourselves a little more as we
pays more than advice. This holds good
all along the road, from infancy to
maturity. With wine on the sideboard,
progressive euchre in the parlor, ensa-
tional, trashy literature on the table
and cigars on the mantel, we need not
be surprised when the crop of DRINKS
ards or gamblers of diseased hearts and
wishy washy minds come in. The seed
has been planted, the crop must grow.
Not all may fall to the lowest depths
perhaps, but who can say which will be
saved? 1t is not the will of the Creator
that one of these little ones should per-
ish; and woe is in store for him who
places occasions to fall in their way.
Hold on to the troubles you have, for
when they go there may come worse
ones.
We shall not have our grandmothers
with us long, and may not the thought
impel us to cheer her and make her as
happy a we can while the opportunity
is given us.
Never whip a balky horse. Sell him
if you can't manage him and let the
other fellow match his temper against
that of the balky horse.
Fashion has been declared as a pecu-
liar influence which makes a woman
drape herself in a horse blanket and
think she looks stunning.
Have you received a good turn? For
get it not. Have you done one? Re-
member 1t not.
MOTHER.
To the young ladies who weekly read
this column, we are moved by the gOOC
spirit to write a few words concerning
their duties to their mothers. 1t may
be you have noticed a W look
on her face lately. Of course it has moi
been brought there by any act of yours
still it is your duty to chase it away.
Would it not be a happy surprise to hel
if you should occasionally bid her sit
down and rest while you performed the
arduous duties in hand? And how q
, kiss on her mouth will cause her dear
face to brighten. Anyway, you owe
, her a kiss or two. Away back, wher
you were a little bit of a girl. she
kissed you when no n else was tempt
ed by your fever tainted breath anC
swollen face. You were not so attract
i've Their as you are now. And through
early years of sunshine and shadow she
was always ready to cure you by the
magic Of mothers kiss. your little,
dirty, chubby hands whenever they
were injule d in the first skirmishes
with a rough world.
J And then the midnight kiss with
which she routed so many bad dreams
as she leaned above your restless pill
low, have all been on interest these
! long, long years.
! OF course she is not so pretty and
kissable as you are; but if you had done
your share of the work during the last
ten years, the contrast would not be sc
marked.
Her face has more wrinkles thar
yours. and yet if you were sick, that
face would appear far more beautiful
than an angels as it lowered over you
watching every opportunity to minister
to your comfort, and every n of these
dear face.
She will leave you one of these days
These burdens, il not lifted from hel
, shoulders, will break her down. Thoss