Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-05
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Advice to Boys.


Advice to Boys.
See here, boys! Whatever you try
to do, do it the very best you can;
do it better than it was ever done
before. Don't yield to the temptation
to slight your work. And above all
things, do what is right, every time.
Never mind the scott and leers OF 9TH
ers, but so ahead and do what is
right Be brave about it, too.
Everyone hates a coward. And an
other thing, don't be afraid of doing
right for fear you will make enemies.
Enemies are as necessary to success
as vinegar is to pickles Don't, above
all things, be a hypocrite. The thief
may steal our property, but the hypo-
crite betrays ones confidence and
only waits an opportunity to stab him
in the back. If you have a mind of
your own don't be afraid to express
your opinion, and if you feel that it
is right, stand by it. People will
talk and fools will turn grindstones
for others to sharpen their axes on.
Think for yourself. Lay your course
of action in accordance with the idea
that some day you will be a man and
called upon to take an active part
in life's great battles. Don't imagine
for moment that you can please
everybody, not yourself. Few people
care FOR You and you must care for
yourself or be left in the cold. Also
but few people will love you although
they may profess to. They love you
merely for what they can make out
Of you. Society looks upon you as
an orange, to be squeezed for its ben
eft. When you are squeezed dry
you will be thrown to the dogs and
another orange will take its turn.
Think Of these things and resolve to
act with wisdom.
Every habitation is not home.
Alas, no! We have seen a beautiful
house, richly appointed, supplied with
every luxury, whose beautiful tapes
tried walls and lovely carpets, all
flower-strewn, handsome furniture,
exquisite china, sparkling cut glass
and silver, beautiful flower yards,
made a picture of lovely beauty, and
would suggest a real fairy land,
everything wealth, skill and taste
could command, those inmates were
highly educated and considered very
refined, and yet that was no home,
and the Christian father of that fam
lily would go from a daintily spread
breakfast table, and cross, ill-tem-
pered, silk-robed wife, and not one
kind word, not single ray of sun
shine to chase away the gloom OF a
busy business mans long days. The
boys were glad to get off to school,
out of the reach of mothers scold-
ing tongue, and the beautiful fash
ionable" daughter fretted the day
away over novels that didn't turn out
like she wanted them to, and dresses
that didn't hang just right, and spent
the evening and a goodly part OF the
night dancing and saying silly moth
ings to silly young man. Why was
this home so unhappy? Because the
mother was not in sympathy with the
father and children, and the children
were uncongenial with each other
So wealth alone cannot make a happy
home.
What is the use of hurrying?
There is time enough for all work.
and they who worry and scurry
through day after day, vainly en-
deavoring to do a little more than
any mortal ought to do in a day, are
injured physically and mentally and
do not in the end accomplish as
much as the quiet, steady worker who
keeps on serenely hour after hour
until weary and then has the good
sense to rest