The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-06-22

that he must be clean This has long
been the standard for the wife but
there is no more reason why we should
say to the woman that she must be
clean than that We should say the
same thing to the man.
Wild Oats Curse Home.
THE sowing of wild oats has been
considered Of no great significance up
on the part of the boys. Unworthy
fathers have sometimes even encour-
aged 1t, and fool mothers have often
shielded and excused it, but medical
and social investigations show beyond
any possibility of doubt that the
physical failure and domestic misery
in many of our homes are only the
reaping of the crop of wild oats, soWn
by the permission of parents and the
federation Of society, and winked at
by the young woman whose life it was
to blight, whose home it was to curse
and whose children it was to destroy
And the man himself is also the
victim of this period of license too Of
ten permitted to young men. There is
not only the physical consequence
from which there may appear to be a
recovery. But often when the man
comes to the point in life where he
ing at his soul and self-respect is hard
to maintain. Imagine, if you can. a
happy husband and father who is con-
scious of misery existing off yonder
somewhere because Of his treachery in
days long gone by. Is there a lonely
grave out there whose secret he alone
could reveal? Is there a namelesS child
to whom he could have given a name?
Is there a futurelesS life whose hopes
were all one day centered in him? All,
man, pity tbs that this world told you
in those irresponsible days of youth
that it would condone your folly. 1t
may indeed have condoned, and per-
haps has forgotten; but in the days of
manhood and thoughtfulness you new
er snail and never can forget.
Follow Bible Rule.
Many men enter into the RESPONSE
BILE relationship of husband and father
without the slightest conception of
their part in the hosle making Some
times things work out all right, but
the man treats everything about the
house with Indifference. Sometimes
his interest consists of finding fault.
Sometimes he has an exaggerated no
ton of his own importance as master
and lord of the home.
IF man comes up to this, Illus
bands love your wives even as Christ
also loved the church and gave him
self up for it, there will be no diff
Guilty about the adjustment of relation
ships in the home This will be the
end of selfishness. This will smooth
out the wrinkles in the domestic fab
ric. 1t will bridge the difficulties and
weld the fractures 1t will produce the
temperament in which diSCOrdant ma
lures are harmOnized
EARLY in married life unexpected
turns of thought and unknown slants
of disposition are mutually observed.
Both parties have usually kept in re-
straint those less attractive character
tstics but the wear of everyday life
under the same roof soon brings out
the real man and the real woman. DIFF
ferences of disposition and different
ways Of looking at things have to be
reckoned with. Here the generosity
and forbearance that love provides,
makes the concessions and indulge the
charity In which the JOY of home will
flourish
For the husband who loves and re-
mains the lover of devoted woman
God has ordained no greater earthly
toy-a joy to be compared only with
the Joys of heaven. This mans shrine
is his home What temptation is there
for him among the powers that prey
on character? What SIRENS call has
power to allure him? There is his