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Show Thoughts To the young man who has no taste for reading, the evening hours become loaded with temptation. temp-tation. It is tiresome to sit moping mop-ing by the stove, and he naturally natur-ally drifts to the street or the card table. There he finds others oth-ers like Himself, with vacant hours to while away and thus grow up those habits and associations associ-ations which soon eventuate in dissipation or lead to crime. All that the wife can do will not make the home an agreeable one. Neither can a wife be 'iap-py 'iap-py with a husband who is addicted ad-dicted to finding fault with his bread and butter. She may try ever so hard to please him, yet when he sits down to meals, she lives in constant fear that some portion of the food will not suit his fastidious taste. Be. polite to your children. Do you expect them to be mindful of your welfare,, to grow glad at your approach, to bound away to do your pleasure before your request re-quest is half spoken? Then, with all your dignity and authority, author-ity, mingle politeness. Give it a niche in your household temple. Only then will you have the true secret of sending out into the i world realty finished gentlemen I jlie "Jlirhtpf homerJvrilk.lihevhiilm J of the cradle words of our mother. moth-er. Not until we have left homo and are wanderers in the curious strangeness of a strange land, unnoticed, unheeded, lonely and weary, will we know of a truth what a mother is. Then we feel that she is good and wo bless her. Never can we repay our mother's kindness. Her withered with-ered form and her silvering braids shall we defend till that day cometh when He shall make up His jewels -and then we ween, Heaven will know no kinder, no brighter, no purer angel than she. When the ever shining stars shall wane in the fading of our vision and the noisy world will grow still in our sleep of death, will we forget her; not till then. The making of money and saving of money, . as' distinguished distin-guished from the miserly love of money which is said 'to be the root of all evil, should be the aim of all young men who start out in life for themselves. They include habits of industry that lead to contentment and often ward off dissipation, want and future misery. It was not the gathering in of wealth that has sent so many leading men to prison, it was the unlawful manner man-ner in which they endeavored to reap their harvest. If brothers or sisters err, the world says "shun them; thus you will show that you disapprove of the act making an example of them." Alas! how many examples ex-amples we have of this mode of teaching crowding the haunts of infamy today. Once bright young lives, over whose pure lips and innocent brows mothers watched in all tenderness; but the trembling tremb-ling feet took one false step, and so we thrust them out of our f jJ hearts, out of our churches, and lll would even thrust them out of flrTI heaven. Is it right, is it ju6t, 1 wfl is it Christlike? H We like to see the glancing, H cheerful light through the win- .H dow of a neighbor of a cold J night, or watch them, as the H evening deepens, gradually jj creeping from the parlor to the M upper stories of the house near us. We like to watch the little ,w ; mM children going in and out of the door, to play or to school. We H like to see the white-robed baby H dancing up and down at the H window in its mother's arms, or H the father reading his newspaper , H there at evening.or any of these H cheerful, impromptu home H glimpses, which, though we are H no Paul Pry, we will assert go to M make a pleasant neighbor to those , - jW who live for comfort instead of , H show. Ml A cut finger is not benefitted . ) H by pulling off the plaster and ex- -' I, posing it to somebody's eye. M Charity covereth a multitude of . k. H sins. Things thus covered are H cured without a scar; but, once M published and carried to med- ' '( M dling friends, there is no end to ,,, H the trouble they may cause. h Keep it to yourself. Troubles i M are transient; and, when a sor- H row is healed and passed, what , Jt ', M a comfort it is to say: "No one $ M ever knew it till it was over." M |
