The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-09-08
TIE HOME CIRCLE
AND IT'S INTERESTS.
Column Dedicated to Tired
Mothers as They Join
The Home Circle at
4 Evening Tide.
woman,s Work.

band ana cnllOren, ID a IiAINei soi pa
tent endurance. Here the servitude OF
woman is the heaviest. No sooner Is
her work done that 1t requires to be
done over again. Men take contracts OF
work on them, finish them, and they
are over for all time. The prospect of
ending them and drawing pay for the
labor is alluring. And woman's work
holds no such promise. She washes on
Monday after Monday the same gar
ments until there is no more OF them
to wash; then they are replenished by
new oneslike old. and the rubbing and
wringing goes on until the worn out
hands are folded for their eternal and
only rest. She mends stockings with
tireless fidelity. week after week, and
year after year. Every morning the
same rooms are to be put in order only
10 be in the widest disorder by even
ing. The same stockings, the same
washing; the same cleaning and cook
ing in endless rotation, which, II done
promptly and properly leaves no time
for reading and self culture which,
aside from the pleasure il affords the
woman. is the only means Of fitting
oneself for the intellectual culture OF
children.
What wonder that women are not
thinkers, or that the daughters of
successive generations are vapid. I'M
cultured creatures, incapable OF form
ing an opinionon on the most impor-
tAnt subjects of husman considera-
ton.
The crowning grace OF home is cheer
fulnesss
In nine cases out OF ten. mans life
will not be a success II he does not
bear burdens in his childhood. If the
fondness or vanity of father or mother
has kept him from hard work; If am
,ther always helped him out at the
: nd Of his row; If instead OF taking
les turn at pitching off the slowed
way all the time--in short, IL what
as light always fell to him. and what
r1,as heavy about the same work to
.some one else IL he has been permit
ted to shirk, until Sinking has become
. habit, unless a miracle has been
wrought his life will be a failure and
the blame will not be so much his as
that OF his weak and foolish parents.
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Invite your friend to church. You
invite him to your home, you invite
him to your lodge, you invite him to
your political meetings, your parties,
your lecture courses and your enter
tainments why not invite him to your
church? Tell your pastor to preach
little better and the choir to sing
little more sweetly next Sunday and
then invite your friend to your church
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500 ssss
The life OF the world is strenuous,
and the door of the home should shut
out the storms and stress but should
not shut out new and wholesome in
spring influences 1t should stand wide
in .hospitable welcome g friends. The
home life this is narrow and selfish
is dull and enervating.
Why should hearts spend years on
sarth growing into one. knitting life
into life, blending soul into soul for a
union that is not to reach beyond the
vallay Of shadows? Husbands, you
are the head of the homes, why not be
the head of the home for eternity?
As king over the stalwart oak and
lofty pine, the fig tree would have
been dead failure ana as much out OF
place as some of our politicians are in
congress; but for bearing figs the oak
and pine are its interiors. Bearing
hgs is the grandest thing in the world
for a fig tree. 1t shines in its own
sphere, but stripped OF its bearing
power it has no excuse for existence
Sometimes a mother, who reigns a
majestic queen in her own household,
forsakes her quiet sweetness of home
rule for noisy, rough, public career,
for which she has not the slightest
qualification. OF course there are no
such mothers who are readers of this
paper. but we have seen them and so
have you.
On the shores Of the Adriatic sea
the fishermen's wives come down at
sunset and sing to guide their loved
ones home. On the mountains of Ty-
toi hundreds of women and children
go out nightly and sing their native
songs until fathers. husbands. BROTH
ers and SONS answer on their return
home. What a beautiful home coming.
Is it not polished citizens A type Of
that welcome we hope every reader of
this department will receive when they
reach the golden gates OF Eden.
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1.-THE hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world This is a saying as
old as the hills, but were it true ow
great men in our great cities would
not be on trial and sent TO prison pens
for doodle and graft" When the
hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world there will be "a school house on
every hill top and no saloon in the
valley
In the race of life, in the contest OF
physical endurance, in the moral tests
mat come, that child has not a fair
chance who has sprung out of the mud
or the streets. To know the breath Of
lfJacs and the rustic of autumn leaves,
to be up with the lark. to battle ones
feet in the dew of the pasture, to go TO
bed with the song of the whip-poor-
wiII--those memories are like guard
tan angels