Show home paragraphs I 1 AI 1 I i sometimes it il is like making bricks without straw to get items in a small community where a lack of putting them in a reporters way is often noticeable the I 1 he power ot of the printed word is unlimited and tho file advantages ot of publicity often given freely by the local paper to home news is worth many dollars to its readers it is also not the local items that sometimes are already familiar to the home reader before publication that are to be left unrecorded for the absent ones living away from tho file native home town toan thus get the home news and form a largo large number of subscribers scattered all over the country who nilo take like the home paper tor for this pur purpose poe especially I 1 after talking about the extravagance of the age a good many men go down to the garage and order their 1915 machine exchanged for a 1916 model ilow how often we hear of 0 a young lad who has entered nis teens tell how te be scampered oft off to school when ills his mother did not see him and yet while in hearing bearing distance when she mis mt t stai ti t 1 1 H 1 j called to him lie he made believe he did not hear just bin ply to get out of carrying in the coal or get sonio water or some little chore but le left it it for his mother to do who has her hands full of housework and perhaps many other little folks to look after the good lord knows too much falls on the shoulders of many good mothers by the truant conduct of a thoughtless boy remember my boy youve only one mother you can begin to teach a child to take pride in his or her home town very early in life explain to them how it deti detracts acts fi aiom oni the beauty and value of a town to disfigure its sidewalks by piling dirt on them or nl marking arking them up with crayon let them feel that they haw havo a great re in keeping up the pride of their town children like to feel that they are important when brother when you y 0 u come in from work in the evening we all know you are tired but put on your best look and assume a happy mood do not frown if the floor is not swept nor supper ready engage the little folks just a little while and get them to looking forward to your coming with pleasure it will help to home wonderfully A child should be made to reel feel that ilis his home is indeed a home the happ happiest lest place in the world not merely iTie rely in n outward sli shelter olter and a resting place but a center of enjoyment sanctified and purified by love tho the thought and remembrance of which should be the safeguard of ills his life as lie he goes forth to the giving bining strength and proportion to his character life will nill always be to a large extent what we me ourselves make it each mind makes its own little world the cheerful mind makes it pleasant and the discontented mind makes it 11 mis rable willie while it is comparatively easy to bo be polite toward strangers or toward people of distinction whom we meet in society or on public occasions still it should be rL remembered that it is at home in the family that an everyday politeness Is really most prized coming as it should from the kindly feeling of the alie lie heart art A stranger entenok tr n a household knows whether the key note there Is high or low there are houses affluent wealth and culture where tha discords are incessant and the meaning of life no higher than that of brutes but no symphony can compare inith the signil leance ot of daily life in a family of gentle words nords and noble conduct aas others may love as fondly but never again chile time is ours shall any ones love be to us as fond as tender as devoted as was that of our dear old trem trembling bing mother through helpless infancy her throbbing heart was nas our sate safe protection and sup support por t and through the ills ilia and maladies of i childhood her gentle hand ministered and soothed as none other could we feel animated to struggle more manfully in the great battle of life when we me remember our mothers mother s holy counsel to us in childhoods early dawn and in the slippery paths ol of youth |