The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-08-31
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN
HOME CIRCLES

lis your father rion?" someone asked |
five-year-old girl: and the little ona
replied confldentially. why. Of course
he's got me-" And she was right, too,
for the father VI sweet, loving. help
ful little daughter is richer than some
millionaire whose money cannot buy
them the love u a single heart. How
about your father? Does he think he
II rich man because OF the daughter
at home? There are households where |
1t Is hard 10 make both ends meet"
but where there Is plenty OF that bet
ter wealth OF love and kindness ana |
loyalty. Is Yours one Of them?
The true home maker is happy |
combination or the Martha and the
MARY" sort OF women. for while not |
troubled about many things she |
leaves none OF the essential things un- |
done. and yet, Chooses the better part"
and gives to love the first best place.
Her house is healthfully clean from |
cellar L. attic. but painfully neat no.
whore: she Is orderly and sympathetic |
enough 20 keep the machinery rum
ming smoothly. and not 50 prim that |
anyone Is afraid OF mourning reproach- |
ful looks or words by misplacing |
chair. and II books and papers are now
and then left scattered around, one is |
not told OF II next morning at the
breakfast table. Tho meals are well
cooked and served on time, the beds |
thoroughly aired every morning. and |
sunshine and fresh air coaxed into tins
faIthest corner OF every ROOM
A cheerful. happy homo IL the sweet |
est place on earth and the greatest
safeguard against temptation for tho
yourg. Parents should spare no pains
70 make home a cheerful place. There
should be pictures 20 adorn the walls.
flowers 60 cultivate the finer SENSIBLE
tiles. entertaining boofs. Instructive
newspapers and periodicals. These
things. no doubt. cost money. but not
q 1.-THE the amount that one OF the les
ser vices costs, vices which are sure 10
be acquired away from home. but sci.
dom there. Then there should be social
pleasure. n gathering OF old and young
around the hearthstone. n warm wei
come 70 the neighbor who drops In III
pass pleasant hour. There should be
music and reading In this way each
member OF the family looks forward 10
the hour OF reunion as the brightest
one Of the twenty -four.
Lot not the young man, who Is liv-
Ing beyond his income deceive himself
with the sophistry hat he viii retrieve
h.a position LIE; him not build air
castles OF future successes that will re-
deem tho past. only to be crushed be-
meath their ruins. out OF your present
you are building your future and as
surely as night follows day you will
reap that which you have sown Be
not deceived. The law Is ;nexorablc.
You cannot escape the consequences OF
your case II you SOW tarcs In the
sprinRtime or your life these will make
your harvest: IL good fruit, then will
the autumn fiji your grnnarieA. Re-
member. too. that there Is but one seed
time ard that fof you Is friught with
veal or woe There IL hut one garn-
erinE ,lme and Il rests with you alone
< Whether y9i shall gnrner honor or.
shame. success or CALLING poverty.
righteousness or unrighieousncss.
ssss
Our young people must be tauHh'
that aali is not god that glltters," and
athat fine dress does not make TIC
man or woman We irilst begin cign.
~ we expect 10 rea our Children up to
then 70 10 industrious and not idle
away their time. There are so many
young people today that aie hung only
in the present. dincirs away golden
hours. when they should be thinking.
studying and working. Girls should be
Taught how 10 manage and keep house
while with mother, Az she rrows old
err let the mantle gradiially fan from
notler'q shoulders on a. he's and
whom she ~ called TO "A horne OF her
own shc win not feel at loss She
viii knew how and whtre TO begin Wa
know there nre mothers now olling 20
keep grown girls from work y q tlfY
are able ard would willingly 4 y, had
they no. been brought UP with idea
iDstillcd into their hen Is that pung
ladies MUS, not mar their bcaah by
work
F,xtrayaeant dress has broken more
husbands than II has made model
wives.
There Is but one way out 81 poverty
for the generality OF mankind aud thet
Is downright hard work economy ana
self-dsmaI. Iouue man. draw yonr
coat. roll up Your sleeves and ~ade IN.
The cverlastingiy waiting for some
Y thing to turn mp -wsiting to step into
dead mems shoes, VIII terminate your
career as "a mere groyeling, dependent.
,,.ihsisting and only existing AMI NIL
ing space without n real or single pur-
pose in life wake up stir aroun
and send tho life blood c'nrsing thru
your veins Hold up yonc head clean
yeur fnca. put on a smile. and cast that
woe be- gone look in the rubbish by the
wavalae. whore 4, belongs. Move fcre-
ward, clear the track, and the grandest
opportunities nflife WIN oper up'which
YOU want 10 seize with tenacious
grin and they WIN unfold to you all tLe
hidden Il easuros you ever imagined Of
conceived
Nothing impresses us more ttln me
lack OF enityme some parents hav''
during the clildrens happiest day o
Either conscience so fyrannizes over
them that they have no real pleasure
or they arc haunted by a fear that sorhe
evil vii, ocfaii their darlirgs, or the
cares Of life are so clamorous and IN
tac anil n