The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-06-19
THE KEYNOTE OF HAPPINESS.


establish that harmony, there will be
more heard of domestic felicity and less
of the 'new woman" Every man, no
matter how viciously inclined, clings to
his ideal when he can find one, and it
is surprising how they sometimes man.
age to defy the most ordinary of feml-
nine mortals. If each and every woman
would determine to be worthy of deifica-
ton by the man that she loves, that man,
(were he rightly and truly so called /,
would be inspiring by her example, and
the desire to rise to her level would soon
find a place in his heart. We do not
say that this is an easy part for a woman
to play. but surely it is better than being
content to slip down off of the pedestal
that man would put us on, and insisting
upon being made of no finer clay than
he.
BOOKS.
Few finer tributes to books have ever
been paid than this of Henry Ward
Beecher:
''When one by one a loving student
has gathered from all departments OF
human learning a multitude of books,
they are not alabaster vases filled with
the sweetest perfume of the human soul,
they are living creatures; they are COM
panions; they have received the homage
of our best hours We have hung our
hearts upon them, and as they sprang
from the noblest parts of their authors,
they are clothed with the'noblest associa-
ton of our own lives"
Nothing gives more serenity to old age
and so fortifies against inward or out
ward woes, than a collection of good
books. The young couple who are now
wasting their income to keep pace with
all that the shifting fashions demands in
clothes could insure far greater happi.
ness for the future by investing in mod
est library as they go along.
Daniel Webster, in speaking of the log
cabin, that once stood among the snow
drifts OF the New Hampshire hills, and
where the greater part of his fathers
family was born, uses the following beau
tiful language:
"It's remains still exists. I make to it
an annual visit. l carry my children to it to
teach them the hardships endured by the
generations that have gone before them.
| love to dwell on the tender recollec-
tions, the kindred ties, the early affec-
tions, and the touching narratives and in
cidents which mingle with all that know
of this primitive family abode. l weep
to think that none of those who once in
habited it are now among the living, and
If ever | am ashamsd of it, or if ever |
fail in affectionate veneration and rever-
ence for him who reared it, and defended
it against savage violence and destruc-
ton, cherished all Of the domestic virtues
beneath its roof, and through the fire
and blood of seven years revolutionary
war; shrunk from no danger, no toll or
no sacrifice to serve his country, and TO
raise his children to condition better
than his own, may my name and the
name of my posterity, be blotted forever
from .liic memory of mankind"
The first question that a man asks
when he sees a girl flirting is whether
she is respectable girl or not. You
see how this raises doubt at once.
This being the case, surely no modest
girl can afford in the slightest degree to
indulge in this past time. When the
down is brushed from peach the beauty
is so marred that it can never be restor-
ed, and so when young girl throws
lightly aside that sweet and modest re-
serve that is SO becoming to a maiden,
and which so elevates her and enables
her to command the respect of all, she
loses her greatest charm and thus be-.
comes rather common and cheap, to use
Il lsrksVN al.
giddy and thoughtless girl to be wonder
fully amusing, and she may even get an
idea that she is quite fascinating, but it
is most degrading thing, and should be
lrowned upon by every young lady who
has an ambition to become worthy and
charming woman.
If child has any sensibility, scolding
either kills it or makes it far more vic.
ions and determined. Children, too,
have rights which ought to be respected
as much as their elders. They can rea-
son as well as older and wiser heads.
They are as quick to see an injustice, and
they know as well as any one else when
parents are making fools of themselves.
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A we'll regulated home is millennium
on small scale
X X
Graduation days have again come
and gone, and how many of the boys and
girls who have received their diplomas
fully realize that for the majority OF them.
''school days" are over, and actual life
now commences. They have received
the best training obtainable from their
J instructors, and it is sincerely to be