The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-08-11
HOMECIRCLECOLUAIN
A COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN THE
HOME CIRCLE AT EVEN
ING TIDE.
The Road To Long Ago.
BY James J. Montague

by james % S4oHhBup
often, when ] hear the stories that a
Little Fellow tells,
OF land OF summer sunshine sing
ing brooks and quiet dells,
Where there's neither work nor wor-
ry and one listens all day long
To the GROOMING OF the crickets and
the robins nesting song
I'm reminded as he chatters, with his
eager eyes aglow
That this land was my own country.
in the time called long ago.
From the hilltop which he fancies
that his feet were first to tread
/ have heard the mother robin call
her children home to bed;
/ remember how the crickets stilled
their song when drew near,
SO never could discover II they sang
by note or ear.
Sometimes / heard fairy voices In the
rustllng maple tree.
But however hard / hunted, not a
fairy could / see.
There were bears in my own country,
so 1t wasn't safe TO roam
4 When the woods were filled with
shadows, very far away from home
4 Quite a wicked little goblin lurked
/ beside tine rivers brim
/ And the better part of valor was TO
keep away from him.
( Still the sun seemed always shining
through the long and pleasant day,
| And ! wonder rather often why ever
came away.
FL would like TO journey back there
from this world OF cares and men,
I And 10 wander through the woodland
and beside the brook again:
| / would like to hunt those fairies, for
the frost is on my brow
/ Meaning years and happy wisdom,
and I'd surely find one now.
Countless times I've dreamed about 1t,
but I've come to learn at last
That all travel is forbidden on the
pathway to the past!
o
Broadmindedness In regard to relig-
h ious matters is a mighty fine thing.
\ There Is nothing as narrow and big
oted as the man who says another
| man lis not as good as himself just
/ because he has a difference of opin-
4 ion In regard TO religion.
But Il seems that increasing broad
mindedness has come 10 mean a lax
i ity in regard TO religious matters
which Is really quite appalling. Our
educational curriculum has been COM
| pletely stripped OF any hint of relig-
| ious observances. People win say this
because of differences of belief. bur
| there are certain things which are
common TO every religion and which
could easily be included In the daily
| regime OF the school. AT the present
rate children will soon be in total ig-'
/ norance OF the history of the Ten Com
| mandments. And they will undoubted-
/ ~ tell you that the sermon on the
| Mount was preached by Billy Sunday.
Another phase of this laxness in re-
| l!glous matters is seen in the increas-
ling number OF people who boldly pro-
claim that they do not believe in
anything" Perhaps we should not say
boldly" for II does not take any great
amount of courage TO make this state
ment now. Ten years ago perhaps,
but now the speaker is gladly Joined
| by a bunch of kindred spirits who
congratulate him on his courage to
1 peak his mind. He begins TO think
| himself an extremely, clean fellow.
But he is not the least bit original.
Bob Ingersoll spoiled his chance for
| that
The Bible has stood the test of cen
turtles and those who believe 1t will
not be disturbed by this surface ripple
in religious thought.
i .
The world likes good loser. 1t
| looks with favor on the man who
smiles when things go wrong and
courageously makes fresh beginning
It's good quality to cultivate but
don't carry it to the point where you
acquire the losing habit.
Many a mans failures are his step
ping stones to success. Do not waste
too much time regretting the mis-
takes for 1t is by mistakes that we
learn.
i II you cannot have the best. make
! the best of what YOU have