The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-11-21
Home Circle Column.

home OlrCI0 UOIun1n.
Homes are training schools for citi-
zens, and only as they teach patriotism
in the fullest sense of the word are
they doing Il cir duty by their country
in unstinted measure. The family Ia
BILE is the family rallying place, and it
is well therefore that meals should
neither be taken in silence nor occupied
with frivolous gossip; they afford the
parent and the children a meeting
around where they may come into close
sympathy, and where they may receive
stores of knowledge while the bodily
needs are attended to.
Among all elevating influences, that
of a happy home is the most perma-
nent. Every clean home is an influence
for good in the community. Every
ideal home must possess beauty as well
as cleanliness and kindness. Every
happy home should shed its refining in
fiuences abroad. Every good home is
an educator and adds UNNECESSARILY to
the sum of human happiness. Every
home should be a faithful guardian of
public morality, the surest safeguard
OF the PUBIC 8 Iuture.
Parents, we would say to you when
God has blessed you with good girls,
appreciate them. Today is the time to
do it while they are lowered within
your wings. Do not wait till they are
gone, perhaps forever, from the home
nest. If you love them. let them know
it. If your girls are ambitious and
want to gain for themselves a position
in life. help them, for it is your duty to
do so. If your girls want an education,
give them all the chance that lies in
your power to acquire one.
1t is a fine thing to stand in the midst
of busy belts and whirling pulleys, with
the knowledge of their governing laws
in your brain. and the quick control of
them in your right hand; but it is finer
and grander to stand where any mother
may stand, if she will, among the liv-
ing spirits which are to dominate the
wheels; bordering the laws of human
endeavor, directing the development of
human agency, and guiding the force
of human activity, bearing the
supreme weight of human responsible
ty; doing it in utter unconsciousness
of self OF of sacrifice, strong in the
wondrous love which alone Of earthly
emolients is all persuasive and all pow
erful against the grind and wear and
worry of the world.
In a world subject to mechanical laws
there a be no progress without fric-
ton; neither can there be much with
In excess of it. In the one Ease affairs
are too often allowed to slide; in the
other life becomes a dreadful horrid
grind" A right judgment is a royal
gift from heaven. Rub the baby's
back; he will digest better, sleep bet
ter, and behave better; but remember
that he is new as yet and unhardened;
his skin will be tougher later on. Stroke
the family cat; she likes it, but stroke
in the direction indicated by nature.
There is all the difference in the world
between a spit and a purr. Keep the
carving knife sharp, as you value q
peaceful meal, but incline it always at
the proper angle to the steel. Sharpen
the family wits also by j~udicious rub
bing against each other; but interpose
occasionally and very dexterously a
drop of oil. Keep the family wheels
whirring, but beware of hot boxes. Put
q POiou uBOI VII SuIldCcS, Uut use
cotton waste or soft flannel, not emery
paper.
Every ambitious girl has in view
some ideal work, and if they do not
reach the point of perfection in that
work they will be dissatisfied. Do not
think because they do all the work set
before them willingly, that they are
satisfied. Don't you know that they
are working to be promoted higher?
Do, not think that a profession will
make your girl less w0manly, no, never.
dependent. Parents, do you realize
that your girls will soon be women and
have to fill women's places? Have you
done your duty by trying to fit them
for their fosition? If so, God bless you.
If not, God help you to do so.
God bless the children! They are a
world of care and trouble; they bring
pain, WEAKNESS and SORROW, but are
worth it all. Do you remember after
that weary day when you were harsh
and irritable and they went to sleep
with a sob, what bright, fresh faces
they brought to you in the morning?
How full of tenderness and forgive
ness chi dren are! How quick to forget
unkindness! How fine is the intelli-
gence with which they look beneath the
surface and know that the irritable,
nervous creature of the night before is
not the real mother, but the serene,
gentle woman of the morning whom
they love with deep devotion. They are
the beautiful examples of the truth
that sorrow may endure for the night,
but joy cometh in the morning. BY
their love and brightness they repay us
hourly for every struggle We may en-
dure for them.