Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-10-30
A Simple Mother

On B.-I1er mother brought it upD
And when I'm dressed" thus spoke
the maid,
"Ill HE me to the elm trees shade,
And with book there | will find
Sweet rest and comfort for the
mind"
/ And so in sylvan shade she read.
On. B.-l1er mother made her bed
"A dainty lunch will suit me best
Salad with oil of Lucca dressed,
/ No steaming soup or heavy roast,
But broiled spring chicken served
] on toast"
She ate it all and found I good.
On. Bier mother cooked the
food)
Then when the day at last was spent
Her mind was filled with sweet con-
tent;
She donned dainty gown OF white
With rosy ribbons all bedight,
| And looked as fair as any rose.
On. B.-Her mother ironed her
clothes)
Il love the simple life" quoth she;
My heart from care is ever free;
! A good nights rest I'll have | know,
For prompt at 9 to bed I'll go"
/ True to her word retired she then.
On. B.-Her mother worked till 10.
Womans Home Companion
Such one | would call a home
breaker-she is responsible for most
| of the divorce evils we are facing to-
/ day. When she marries it will not be
/ for a home but for an establishment
| and ten to one she will mortgage it
! for an automobile.
! Let us not view our childrens ac-
| tons and motives and feelings from
! the standpoint of our own advanced
experience. TO grazing middle age
the ease and audacity of hopeful
/ youth seems foolish, if not terrifying
/ We lose sight of ourselves at our
/ children's ages. Let us take a back
/ ward look at ourselves with the same
hayward instinct of independence,
the same restless desire for change.
the same yearning for things forbid
/ den the vast curiosity and resentment
\ of control and our rebuke will be
tempered with gentleness. making IL
/ far more effective.
II is true we should bring our own
! experience to aid our children but il
is a strange fact in human nature
/ that we learn ten times as much
/ from very little experience of our
own than we do from any great ex
| pericnce of some one else
In molding our future citizens let
us not forget to ground him well in
the principles of peace and patriotism.
| 1t is not time that another view OF
history be held before the eyes of our
children. Instead of teaching that war
is glorious, instead of putting the hero
spirit of dying for ones country above
the nobler spirit OF living for ones
country, why not teach the horrors of
war and emulate those great histor-
ical characters whose names stand
for peace and the universal brother
hood of man? Show. them that the
real avancement OF the human race
has been made in times of peace.
| D,, oil taarh patr,nt,c,,1
our schools. But what is patriotisms
Is it not that spirit within us which
inspires us to serve our country well,
How can we best serve it-by war or
peace?
1t would be well to engage the at
tention of our children every school
morning-in ceremony of saluting tn.
flag. Let the children when the bell
rings at nine o'clock get in line and
let color guard bring out the hag-at
concerted signal. When it is being
raised, let them give the 9 A. r. sa
lutte and repeat these words:
81 pledge all allegiance to my flag
And to the republic for which it
stands.
One nation invisible
With peace, liberty and Justice for
all"
In our work in molding the char
acter of our future citizens we are
not only doing our duty to our child
rem and to our country but we are
rounding out our own destiny.
Phillips Brooks says: "The thought
comes to us more and more the longer
we live-that in what field or in what
uniform or with what aims we do oar