The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-01-20
HOMECIRCLECOLUNN
q COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS As THEY JOIN THE
HOME CIRCLE At EVEN.
ING TIDE.

Twilight.
Sara Tearsdale.
Aloof as aged kings,
Wearing like them the purple.
The mountains ring the mesa
Crowned with ddsky light;
Many a time watched
That coming on OF darkness
TIL stars burned through the
heavens
Intolerably bright.
1t was not long / lived there.
But became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For II was there heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
AS though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word for word.
Take love when love Is given,
But never think 10 find II
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only yourself can heal you.
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road 10 heaven
That ends where no one knows"
Il
Most OF the older citizens are pretty
well acquainted with the boy who
made such a wonderful start In life
and by the time he was eighteen ev-
eryone was predicting wonderful
things for him. But something seem
ed to happen, or rather nothing hap
pened. He slowed down considerably
He tried for one or two worth while
things and failed Everyone said. "Oh
well that's just a bit OF hard luck, he'll
get there the next time" But he didn't
and finally he stopped trying and set
tied down to some more or less med
iocre position.
Then there was the silent young man
who had so little 10 say. whom every
one considered quite dull and about
whom they used TO say Poor john
He's SO stupid, His mother win have
him on her hands as long as she lives.'
But, for some unknown reason he seem
ed to get good position and, much to
every ones surprise, he kept It. He
kept climbing until he finally acquired
the presidency OF. the X Y. 2. on the
A. b. c. X. r. or something else COM
manding a salary OF about seventy
five thousand year.
Now just exactly what happened IN
the cases Of those two boys to make
their careers terminate so differently
and SO Far sses. the way peanie ax-
pected. Probably the older people liv-
ing in the town had more to do with
II than they suspected In the case
OF the first boy they did not allow him
time to test his own powers but made
him believe he was made for great
things. He soon had SO much conf
dence in himself that he decided he
could live on his reputation ard he
quit trying. Some people can and do
that but not until their reputation Is
fairly well established
In tine case of the second boy he xas
either conscious of his own powers
and determined to show the world
that he had them or In his careful
Flooding way he stumbled on his abll-
lty and began steadily climbing.
1t is pretty good idea when young
sters start out not to predict their fu-
ture for they are always more or less
certain to be influenced by your pre-
hictions and you may be doing a lot OF
harm.
Now is the time when New Years
resolutions are usually on the wanc. II
seems rather shame that people take
them SO lightly and that children are
taught to consider them so. Most Of
US make such trivial resolutions and
break them almost aa aoon n fhav ire
made. Then when we find that there
Is some real fault that we must over
come and we resolve to do so we find
our viii power weakened because we
gave in to temptation so many times
before II would be better never to
make a resolution than to make 50
many and break them all. 1t can
scarcely be said to be case OF "the
spirit being willing but the flesh is
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