Show fight like a good soldier and if thou sometimes fall all through finality frai lity take again aam greater strength than be fore trusting in my more abundant grace thomas when men build a new boat and wish to test its strength they turn its ita draw crow upstream against the current they do not let it drift with the ta tide so it 1 is with our lives if we wish to try our strength we must turn our faces to the current and face the tide every child has haa a right to a happy childhood the recollection of a sunny childhood in at auspicious in hen tance and a splendid preparation for the strain and burden of life in china the first four or five years ears of a girls eirls life are a continual agony all the children in india are born old go among the submerged masses a ea in any of our great cities imd and you will find children barren and desolate beyond description to have this thay joy crushed crashed out of a little life is a sorrowful tragedy that will shadow all its future gray skies will often beep above ve them in the after years yeara see aee to it that so far a as possible these weary years yeara are un on clouded let them have their childhood all house keepers are not home makers the house keeper lets the house take precedence of the pleas plead the husband and many bright happy hours with the children the homemaker home maker may not be perfection however neatness and cleanliness is 13 her motto she never thinks of refusing a walk over the field with her husband or a pleasant afternoon ride to a friend on business by so doing she feels fresher and better to perform the duties that perchance were left undone she tries to make home with her bright presence though storms of sorrow may have swept over it i t the place where each member of the family can turn and feet feel there is love patience and gratitude awaiting them the home in some phase or attribute has haa been a fruitful theme for literature through many centuries of civilized life the most volum tons as well as the most varied treatment of the same and its it imer finer issues has been at the hand of the poet this is due to t the h e fact that domesticity is 15 closely bound up with on our natures and touches themes of utility fancy attachment or association that have become part and parcel of our lives and cannot be detached from them even through along stretch of years few writers could find topics were it not for the innocens mno cense es of children the joy of youth the blush and bloom of maidenhood the wisdom of beauty or old age or the myriad other inspirations of the home the average ho housekeeper me keeper in modern modam circumstances spends most of her time t ime in the kitchen doing work that might be much lightened if only she would bring herself to think thick a so but the average mother of a family simply will not spare herself she ruffles and tucks the childrens clothing so that she ahe may have more ironing to do and cooks many more different dishes for the table than is at all necessary for wholesomeness I 1 thus thua making herself much more mom work in this direction better bette r spare yourself housemother bouse mother even though your you fe family m i hw how in much more ale pleased a ed will husband and child gety ren be to see mother look fresh and tidy than to see her heated and tired too worn out gut to enjoy the dainty repast she has worked so hard bard to serve some day they will miss min yon Y a u when it is too late if you give yourself no care |