The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-10
HOME CIRCLE

Have an object in life. You win
not only enjoy life more as you are
living it, but you win have more
years added in which to enjoy the
good things.
Seeding and nagging never mend
ed anything. They have ruined the
peace Of unnumbered families.
There are a thousand ways Of
making other people happy, and you
have only to look about to find them.
II man dares to live within his
means, and is resolute in his purpose
not to appear more than he really is,
let him be applauded. There is some
thing fresh anr rare in such an ex-
ample.
If you would gather up all tender
memories, all the lights and shades
of the heart, all banquetings and re-
unions, all filial fraternal, paternal
and conjugal affections and you had
only just four letters with which to
spell out that height and depth and
length and breadth and magnitude
and eternity of meaning, you would,
with streaming eyes, and trembling
voice, and agitated hand, write it not
in those four living capitals HOME.
Girls, listen to your mothers; you
will never regret it No matter what
your advantages are above what hers
were, you are no better. You can
rest assured that it is no book learn
ing or knowledge of fashion that will
keep your feet away from the many
pitfalls that she can warn you from,
in tender, loving fashion, that you
would do we'll to heed. No matter
how mothers may speak, you may
rest assured their hearts are in the
right place, and that they want their
daughters to be innocent and good,
rather than fashionable.
Be neighborly, be obliging, be kind
and courteous, and then when sorrow
and sickness come you will have SYM
pathy and help.
Let child feel you are displeased
not at him, but at the sin he COM
mits. Can an angry parent do this?
Peope who make mistakes are those
who quarrel with one another be-
fore their children; or who allow the
latter to grow up in idleness; those
who talk about their troubles be-
fore strangers; the father who tells
his children to go the way he does
not go himself, and the young woman
who does not make confdant of her
mother.
Let us take time to be pleasant.
The small courtesies which we often
omit because they are small. will
some day look larger to us than the
wealth which we covet, or the fame
for which we struggled.
Don't forget mother when picnics
and good times are in order. Don't
let her do all the hard work. And,
boys, treat her to some fresh air
every day behind that newly-broken
colt.
The best way to keep the boys at
home is to make it an object for
them not to so out to seek amuse-
ments, for these they will have. Ev-
cry farm home ought to be made a
very heaven on earth to its inmates. |
If all the members of a family
were as courteous and kind to each
other as they are to strangers what |
difference it would make in the |
home atmosphere.
A cheerful countenance is a duty |
we owe to our neighbors and how
much more is it necessary in the |
homel Our friends can get out Of |
our way if we are not good compan-
ions, but our family cannot. They |
are helpless victims, shut up in the |
same house with us. For the sake
of the children, for the sake Of the |
elders, for the sake Of all humanity, |
let US cultivate a pleasant smile, a
hearty laugh and habit of cheer
fulness.