The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-11-26
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MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN THE
NOME CIRCLE AT EVEN
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ALWAYS TOO BUSY.

ALWAYS TOO BUSY.
Are we too busy to live today? Is
that the reason we put off living until
anmorrow? There is friend whom We
should like to visit. The days, the
weeks, the years go by and we have
not called. The friend is taken away.
We have put Off the visit too long; we
we're too busy.
There is pleasure to be found in a
little trip to the country. 1t would rest
dhe husband and be holiday for the
children. But we are too busy. We
put it off until some other time and
The other time seems never to come
We are always too busy. There is a
hundred little kindesses we should do
n we only had the time. The chances
pass, the time never comes. We are
tDo busy for the kindnesses. We are
TOO busy today. We are too busy week
in and week out. There is time for
everything if we place the most i'm
4poriant thing first. We are too busy
over trivial matters TO get the real
rood out of living When we get over
0nr hurry, some day we shall live as
we wish we cheat ourselves into be-
Heving. But the day never comes. We
come, we pass, and we never know the
% live. Too busy-always too busy
There are few books that defy the
passing of time to dull their popular
Ely. Among these is Bunyan's Pill
rims Progress 1t has been amonv
the best sellers for two centuries. This
could not be true If this wonderful
saliegory did not touch the inner life
Df the people.
We often find farmers who lose no
chance of securing machinery for saw
ing labor on the farm. but who don't
think of anything about the machines
that save labor in the house. That is
out of their province and they don't
seem to care enough about it to give
the matter any attention whatever,
Many children hear from their par
nnts nothing but words of censure and
reproof day after day They would
smile with intense joy if told at night
how kind and helpful they had been
and what comforts they had been to
their parents. They would go to sleep
and dream of angels and bright and
happy things. All! how little it takes
10 make hearts happy, and how little
also to make them miserable.
Praise the work OF your children, no
matter how trivial the act. 1t will give
them an honest desire to do better
next time.
The difference between good and bad
Etn0thers is sosvast and so far-reaching |
that it is. no exaggeration to say that
Tho good mothers of this generation |
ARE building the homes of the next
generation, and the bad mothers are
building the prisons. For out of fam
HES nations are made; and if the |
1afher be the head and the hands of a |
FAMILY, the mother is the heart. No
office in the world is so honorable as
hers, no priesthood so holy, no in
diuence so sweet and strong and last
ing.
Push! 1t is just the word for the
grand, clear morning of life; it is just
mo word for strong arms and young /
hearts: it is just the word for world
that is full Of work as this is. II any
body is in trouble, and you see IT,
don't stand back, pushi
Work isNa moral and physical up
litter, it is panacea for sorrow: idle
mess brings moral decay and furnishes |
nm incentive to crime. The avalanche
OF crime that is. sweeping over our
beautiful land is largely due to the
fact that too many would rather steal
than work. The life of duty. not the
life or mere ease or more pleasure, is
tho end of life which makes the great
men and women. The best prize that
life offers is the chance to work at
work worth doing.
Did you ever stop to think that 1t
was one thing to talk about people and
another thing to have people talk
about you. II those of us who use our
tohgues little too freely about our
neighbors would stop and reflect about
the matter and know the great evil
That comes from too much talk and
tattling, we are sure we would call a
halt and gossip no more forever.
We wonder how many parents real
IKE that their child is a book of blank
paper in which shall be recorded the
record of their own lives. Be careful
therefore what you have written there
fer the world will read 1t. All your
zecret thoughts the child will try to