| Show i i i ii t faff ff ff oa 1 I 1 the home circle t f iem MM M i HAPPINESS talk happiness not now and then but every blessed day even it you dont believe halt half of what you say theres no room here tor for him who whines as on his way he goes remember son the world la Is sad bad enough without your woes boes talk happiness each chance you get and talk it good and strong look tor for it in the tae byways as you grimly plod along perhaps it isa is stranger now whose visit never comes but talk it soon find that you and happiness are chums w too many ot of us are looking tor for ward to happiness in the future years instead ot of getting all the enjoyment possible out of the present it is well to remember that the time never will come in this world when we shall have everything we want just where and when we want it the only way to be happy is to enjoy all we have to the utmost atmo st as we go along alone it la Is right to lay up for or old age in youth right to prepare for or a rainy day but it is not right to bend all our energies to this end and put oft until file future the happiness we might enjoy every day it is very common to see people working and saving denying themselves all recreation and many comforts to lay up money to buy more land to enlarge their stock etoch to save for or their children thi nging i that nhen linen they have a accomplished ith this is they will be happy and begin i to ta take ice ca comfort the hoped for or point may never be att atta inel airiel or it if it is sickness or death may have come first and the dear ones whom we expected I 1 top to be happy with may be gone forever I 1 40 0 on one e sure way to get into heaven for op a day at least is to iao do a kind act to some someone ous 0 4 IL man abo sits shrunk up and worthless in fit a little place because he thinks think it is 14 not worth while to grow enough to fill UI that has prospect 0 f getting into larger ones pill fill the place that you are in fit yourself f for or higher usefulness use ulness do that you mus mu t do something besides beides play tho that may bo be innocent I 1 in itself itsek arhe beginning of 0 strife Is like letting out ot of water says the king and ana in no case la Is this than alii 11 the case case ot of aamli quarrels the little breach tir cach no longer at first than c childs finger could stop bui but thru which alit lomes comes the continual dropping ng If not oi attended to in time will widen and stretch till one tine fine day there 1 is a waking up to find tb the 0 angry waters surging around sweeping it g in and all the s neet peace and love and harmony of f home there is no greater fallacy than to suppose that beca because use people are relatives there Is less necessity tor for the common courtesy that oswill is willi ingle angly extended to a stranger et ranger some ot of the people who are the most anxious about the recognition ot of friends in in heaven are the ones who shake hands with two fingers in church 0 good wives are beter of the public peace and morality than policemen prison statutes and all the terrors of the law let a man be thus home anchored and have an interest in a house and lot and except he is radically bad lie he becomes a self appointed guardian of the peace and of public morals the carpenter is abroad ta in the file land and many new nev houses are going up not a few of them are to be occupied by young p people eople who have lately gone thru the ordeal of a wedding march and marriage Klage ceremony As a matter of course there has been a great deal of talking under the roses about the location the style of architecture the quality and quantity of furniture to be purchased and how they intend to live when they take possession of this modernized eden oh we wish we could impress it on their minds that it matter so much whether the house be built after gothic or pioneer style of architecture whether the furniture is of fashionable make or home manufacture whether the walls are hung with costly tapestry or with family wardrobe wardrobe if love and virtue cement the family circle it will bs be home in the truest sense of the word the body is but the dwelling place of the soul so likewise the house is but the tenement of the home we cannot all have perfect forms and classic features but we can have pure beautiful spirits we cannot all have elegant richly furnished houses but we can have sunny pleasant homes aw courtesy like charity should begin be at home of course one c does e not expect to find the same degree of ceremony practiced there as the formalities of mere acquaintanceship exact but there certainly should not be less respect and deference paid to those who are nearer and dearer to us than to outsiders the man who is a gentleman in his home and among those who nho comprise his immediate household can be trusted to do nothing unbecoming to a gentleman when beyond the precincts of home but the man who is courtesy itself when abroad is often times the boor within the confines of his own dwelling place such a man may pride himself on being a gentleman but he is deficient in the elementary instincts of the tha true type and is consequently somewhat akin to a counterfeit that has obtained more or less circulation among the uninitiated but is nevertheless a ious coin alie the worthlessness of which will be discovered sooner or later 40 there are a lot of ways of welcoming a stranger to our city some of them are ara most homelike that is they are characteristic of home management but very uncomfortable tor for the new comer were you ever walk Ing along a strange street and passing unsuspectingly across an alleyway become completely covered by a choking powder of the aronia aroma of ashes the removal of ashes is one of f the agelessly are lessly managed things of our aur towns and cities it has never had the sensational campaign conducted in its behalf beha if that are had tor for the he removal ot of garbage or the swat ting of 0 flies it require a great deal of concentrated ef effort 0 on your part to sprinkle your ashes before you remove them from the cellar to the street and then see that they are taken to the dumping ground in covered cans you may not notice the improvement but others will aw 0 0 sometimes it might be a good idea to conduct a contest in this paper and have every one send in their idea of the meanest trick a man could do it certainly ought to eliminate all the mea meatiest from the community tor for no man would have the nerve to go ahead and perform an act which someone else has stipulated as the meanest act of which he could conceive aro start the ball rolling I 1 our idea of the meanest man is one who claims credit tor for every act of progress in the community by sty ing he thought of it ten years ago i some enterprising citizen gets a good idea he works work skit jt out and it makes good the community congratulates itself taen perhaps you run into one ot of the above meat mentioned ione 41 i old codgers congers and say pretty good idea of the young fellows it I 1 I 1 his idea he be replies humph I 1 11 I 1 thought 0 that moren a year ago and I 1 spoke to Sa sam mBrown brown about it 1 I 1 I 1 at the time sam brown being i another one like himself now it if he be 1 thought of it alright but hy by he push tho the idea or let someone else push it tut no he must wait and j take the sweetness out of so little moment ot of pride and triumph A pretty mean man dont you think can you beat it are you interested in your childs to teacher acher at school at sunday school in private no child lilies likes to think gatono ha tono 0 his parents has come to clisol to spy on him but there are plenty ot of other ways of finding out just what is going on drop in on the teacher sometime the very first first and most necessary thing for her to have is an interest tit in your child and its welfare it she has this she will bo be only too glad to talk to you about tier her little pupil A personal relationship with the small pupil is absolutely necessary for his progress it if the lite teacher knows something of 0 his disposition on and environment she will know whether there lean isan excuse for his sulkiness esa or not a cause for his top apparent parent laziness or misunderstanding ot of his work better yet yei she will know hoy boy to train his likes toward au an actual gain and how to develop a liking lor for other necessary branches so make it a point to know your childs teacher and to understand her methods before you judge her right or wrong according to little johns or marys alaras opinion of her aw iphy Is it that the election of a tillage Fil lage policeman or constable Is such a joke the good citizens usually push whoever is at hand band into the limelight f for 0 r this desperate job provided he knows how to run a dog into the pound Is it his fault bauit that he la is supposed to have the ability of a movie sleuth and got it when there is nothing more to trail than a etring of cuss words occasionally late on sunday night so the good people allow him to become an adept at killing filing tiles flies swapping stories and tt rolling around the village green then comes a startling crime in a nearby hearby town and the criminal slips thru their town or out of 0 their jail where here he has been runby accident as it wore were presto publicity gives I 1 mr constable a run for foi his life all the citizens poin chase demanding what he thinks they elected elecie d him tor for apparently they never considered this before and they will not do afterward except for a little agitation over the candidate tor for the next election the only man who has really learned anything about the job Is ig put out of 0 office 4 aw ila some people never say what they mean chiefly because they begin to talk before they have any idea what they want to say consequently they must go 90 on amending it and making ff bylaws much like a constitutions this la is alright it if you have time t to 1 11 wade through the preamble etc li her tore reaching the point or it if the listeners or your long suturing sut suf tring fring family A young girl of 0 eighteen said in an owr to hr fir query as to where the cream was its over there in fit that quart measure that holds two quarts mother her mother knew what she meant but no one else would such an answer the excuse of difficult articulation it comes from slatternly thought nothing else many of such remarks will leave you powerless to convince anyone of your decision ability or dependability pend ability in matters of importance |
