The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-06-27
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WIN Some Women Grow old.

Why Some Women Grow Old.
One reason why the average woman
wears out, grows old and plain before
her husband, is that. through a mis-
taken idea OF duty, she lays out for
herself at the beginning of her mar
ried life a scheme or plan of duty and
employment for time, every hour filled
with work, with rare and short periods
of relaxation.
This she follows religiously for
years, feeling that she has done her
duty, because every household event
occurs regularly and on time, while
she soon becomes merely a machine,
q thing without life of itself or vo-
lition. She settles into her rut and
goes around and around on the same
track eyerlastingly.
Can any woman keep brightness,
originality OF thought and speech, or
even mere prettiness with such a life,
and without those things how can
she keep her husband and growing
children full of loving admiration,
which is the strongest chain by which
she can bind them to her? How bright
and jolly the neighbours wife seems
when she calls. In nine cases out OF
ten 1t is because the surroundings and
talk OF your home are variety TO her
and rouse her to originality and
brightness of speech In her own rut
she may be as duh as dishwater,
Where shall draw the line?" says
the anxious parent, who is solicitous
for his boys future. Give the young
man the sympathetic companionship
which he will find elsewhere II not at
home; encourage him to seek elevating
and refining associations: impress
upon him the fact that many amuse-
ments are bad only In connection with
the associations and the atmosphere of
temptation which leads to greater evil
demonstrate to him that the principle
OF getting something for nothing IL
bad. wholly bad. and II followed will
lead to his moral and physical ruin:
make home such IA bright, congenial
place. that he win find more pleasure
there than in the haunts Of wicked
ness: more than all else, let him have
in you an example OF uprightness and
moral health. Be sincere, for he can
penetrate your DISCUSSES and despise
you II hypocrite.
True happiness lies not In doing for
ourselves alone. but In the perform
ance of every duty that win anchor
ate the condition OF mankind In gen
eral. II SENS to have been part Of the
Divine plan TO put man into the world
in such condition that from his birth
to his grave he is dependent on some
one else When we look around US and
see our every interest interlocked and
lives and hearts overlap each other 20
such an extent that we possess some
degree OF benevolence, and were 1t not
for this Divine plan tho pathway OF
many would pe cheerless indeed. When
we consider the frailty OF human life
and the common lot of all. we often
wonder AT the Indifference OF some To
attain that greater happiness and
nobler life, whirh can only be found
! In the golden text, do unto others as
YOU wish TO be done by"
II liz very hard to convince young
persons OF eighteen or twenty years OF
age that their tastes are not as fully
matured and Judgment as ripe as is
one OF forty.
BE content TO do the duty that lies
nearest you, and look not TO. man for
praise and approval It's not 20 much
what we do as what we are, and as 70
what we are" we speak most forcibly
through our actions; but we cannot
act unless there Is something within
that lmpels us to action. We are
| touching our fellow beings on all sides
They are affected for good or evil by
what we are, Try what we say and do
even by what we think and feel.
To be mother, to be some mant
Inspiration, TO live in the heart OF the
children, to be the center about which
cluster life's hottest associations
surely this is the greatest blessing
heaven can give, the greatest honor
earth can bestow. When the sorrows
and sacrifices. the loves and joys
dreams hopes ambitions, OF preoga-
tives OF motherhood are thine woman
| thou hast come to thy Kingdom.
It is very important for the comfort
OF home that harassing and depress-
| ing subjects OF conversation should be
excluded, except when It is absolutely
necessary to talk about them; ant
that a habit should be formed of talk
ing cheerfully and good humoredly. anc
OF retaining from what jars on Other
people. such as rudeness, impatienc'
and fault finding.
The person who wantonly puts 9
thorn in the loving heart Of LITTLE
child will feel the ranking of tha'
thorn in his or her own heart som'
day. In wound no later repentance
can eyer heal.
| Only as each man or each woman
performs his or her personal duty II
any department OF life, can that de-
partment be lifted to a higher plane.
Bread and cheese and kisses arr
better than sumptuously laden table,
with no expression 81 love.
Honesty and good manners Away
bring good returns.
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