The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-25
The Home Martyrs.

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1t is a pernicious notion to think
that the woman who wears herself
out, body and soul, and never asks or
hopes for one hours relief from weary
care. is the best mother. She may
( be good-hearted, but she mas poor judg-
ment; t-erWise she would manage
differently and try and keep sane and
do the work which God probably ere
ated ner to do. Every mother needs
occasional relief from her cares. The
other day l met mother in her home
moving feebly about, pale and worn
to a shadow, who certainly bids fair
to become another domestic martyr
and evidently will soon succumb to
fate. Sc told me that she mad faint
ing spells and that the doctor had Or
dered rest and quiet, but she could
not leave 'baby." But it seems that
it would be better to leave baby a
while than it would to die or go in
sane, and he would probably be good
deal better of in the hands Of an older
woman Experience is of as much &C
count in child management as it is
in any other kind Of business, and a
visiting grandmother VITO can tell the
difference between temper and cholera
infantum would be a blessing to any
! town.
Every ology under the sun is taught
, except physiology, in a practical way.
We do not need self-sacrifcing mar
tyrs for mothers half so much as we
need women with good sense-women
who will take the trouble to learn
, something about motherhood and tie
care of children before they bring chill
dren into the world.
Love is the great magician that can
turn sordid surroundings into home
Of happiness, that can transform age
and wrinkles into youth5 and beauty
/ To those w3o will resSlutely look at
the good and ignore t%e faults in those
whom they have chosen for partners
for life, the ennobling influence on
themselves and that partner is un-
speakable. Many light-minded, care
less woman eas become good wife
and mother because ner husband
trusted her and expected it of her;
many a rough, rude, boorish man has
become refined, kind and gentle, be-
cause he knew a good woman loved
him and expected it of him,
Each man is surely building up a
monument of deeds each day he lives,
and tie stones are swiftly gathered as
the years onward speed. Be they
smoothly dressed and chiseled, be they
broken and unhewn! On the soiled,
neglected esplanade with splintered
fragments strewn? Bring the trusty
square and plummet, try to touch with
steady hand, for without true foun-
dation, no monument may stand.
1t is from eight to sixteen t3at boys
begin to break away from parental
control and the restraints of the fire.
side. 1t is then that they seem to feel
that they know more than they who
bore them; it, is then that t:ey begin
to assert the liberty of the streets, and
taste its delusions, its vices, and it's
crimes. Said an English jurist of
great distinction: GA large majority
of all the criminals who are brought
before me have been made what they
are by being allowed to be away from
home evenings between the ages of
eight and sixteen
There is nothing in the world tnat
grows upon one so fast as a desire to
loaf. The growth is gentle and pleas
ant at first. We "put off" little thing,
dodge some little responsibility, or do
some little shirking just because We
don't wish to exert ourselves. 1t is a
little thing, but it can't be rubbed out
1t is the beginning of disease Of the
villa drop from the bucket of moral
force, a scratch on tie face of self
respect. A gallon is made up of drops,
a death cash is only a wide and deep
scratch.
i Two Kinds of Girls.
One is the kind that appears best
! oh Tho ir1o {L,o& -,