The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-31


 We are honest We will admit that we mostly have time for the thing wa want to do.
 Too much cannot be said and taught about the dignity of labor One who has felt the joy of achieve mcnt whether it be the creation of some beautiful thing which the world may see and admire, or only preparing a perfect pie in the pri- vacy of ones own pantry, the joy of actual achievement is the same We do too many things only to get them done. It is no more important that a thing be done than that it is done joyously and well. The most ordinary tasks can be made attractive and enjoyable.
 An old time housekeeper once gave this advice Make your work look pretty about you" There is a sermon in that sentence if I had the eloquence to preach it
 I think this is a most importan factor in the training of children. To learn to see how well a thing can be done instead of how much can be done and to appreciate and ad mire the work of others these sim ple truths are overlooked. The youth of today takes too much for granted They have too many in terests outside of the home. The literature of the day. the moving picture showH, the extreme fashions, the modern dances, all combine to educate the boys and girls of this generation away from the home Here is the great work and the great responsibility for mothers There is nothing that is so vitally important as the training of the children. There is no influence so lasting and so invaluable to a boy or a girl as the influence of home and parents. Can home not be made attractive enough so that our boys and girls may stay there more? go home at certain hour is an excellent thing, as long as it is needed, but in the majority of homes it should not ho a necessity It is solving the problem from the wrong end. Children crave companionshiD Do you let your boy bring his friends home, or does he feel there isn't room? We listened not long ago to an interesting paper on mak- ing a companion of ones daughter i Do you do that, or does she feel { that you are more interested in your friends than in hers?
 ! Most children love music, and as rule they are not hard to please. | It is easy to see that if they do hear music they hear something | beside ragtime.
 The child of today has too much done for him, and not enough d0nc with him. He needs to learn to 1 'coly fer pleasure in simple icing How many children do you know who will of their own accord notice the sunset? The boys and girls ar trained enough and educated enough except in the all important habit of finding their own pleasures in the simple things and in the home
 A we'll known writer says this: Do you know that housekeeping is 1 instinctive in children, and that parents foster the go microbe either by teaching children the go ing habit or by allowing home to lack the charm that holds them? And again: What a fine thing il would be if a race of people capable of being happy in home days and ways could be born into the world :" and yet again We need Sabbath keeping and church-going habits. We need the discipline of staying home, and finding home the best place, j. And the anniversaries we celebrated-the family birthdays Thanksgiving, and Christmas How they bring back to us the happy homes of our childhood And as those days come back to our mem ories, the influence of that home stays with us-a living influence that we can never outgroW Is not that something to be everlast- ingly thankful for? May we ever remember;
 Be it ever so humble
 There's no place like home