Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
START RIGHT—END RIGHT."
Vacation is almost at its close and
our boys and girls in the high schools
and universities will soon be select
ing their courses. Parents often leave
this very important task to the judg
ment of the child. While their wishes
should be considered, the parent
should guard against any inclination
to choose the “easy way” to a di
ploma. Only a small percentage of
the pupils who enter high school com
plete the work. So very much de
pends upon the choice of a course
and their "sticking to it.” True and
trite is the saying, “Start right, end
right.”
The system of electives, while pos
sessing some favorable points, has
done much to enervate pupils and has
encouraged the seeking of a diploma
in an easy way with little regard for
an education that will fit them for
some definite work in life.
The subjects having been carefully
chosen, parents should see to it that
children “get busy.” Boys and girls
cannot frequent places of amusement
in the evenings and do efficient work
in the classroom next day. Success
depends upon earnest land diligent
study. Failure must follow neglect
and indiscretion, and failure is a
thing not to be acquiesced in but to
be repaired at the earliest moment,
for if yielded to it weakens the reso
lution and destroys the sense of
shame.
Change of plan on account of re
pulse easily becomes a habit, and so
we find many changing from one thing
to another, beginning a great many
things and accomplishing nothing.
Children should not be allowed to
abandon any right undertaking that
is within the legitimate sphere of
their powers.
Proper application will master the
subjects chosen. The accomplish
ment of each task should be the sig
nal for the undertaking of something
more difficult. Those who are pos
sessed of this spirit shall neither fail
not be discouraged. L. S. E.
HOME LIFE THE IDEAL.
Home life is the ideal existence.
The American home is the center
from which radiates all that is good
in our social and our commercial in
tercourse. If the home is destroyed
then our American civilization will
deteriorate, for that home is the in
nermost sanctum of the heart. The
coo of the baby, the prattle of the
children, the songs of the older boys
and girls, the smiles of the mother,
the complete happiness of the father
—these are to be found in the ideal
American home. Home is the breed
ing place of love—its name is synon
ymous with peace. It breathes the
benediction of the Infinite on this mor
tal world of ours. It is the refuge
from the storms of business, the
stress of commercialism, the calm
harbor where the bark of human hap
piness may rest gently, where the
roar of the angry waves outside
sounds as a lullaby to soothe us to
our nightly rest. It says to the angry
passions of the day, ‘Thus far shalt
thou go and no farther.” It epito
mizes the saying of the Master, the
command of the Nazarene to the toss
ing waters of the sea, "Peace, be
still.”—George B. Caldwell.
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ONLY A DAD.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)
Only a dad, with a tired face,
Coming home from the daily race.
Bringing little of gold or fame
To show how well he has played the
game,
But glad in his heart that his own
rejoice
To see him come and to hear his
voice.
Only a dad of a brood of four,
One of ten million me:i or more
Plodding along in the daily strife,
Bearing the ■whips and scorns of life
With never a whimper of pain or hate
For the sake of those who at home
await.
Only a dad, neither rich nor proud.
Merely one of the surging crowd,
Toiling, striving, from day to day,
Facing whatever may come his way;
Silent, whenever the harsh condemn,
And bearing it all for the love of
them.
Only a dad, but he gives his all
To smooth the way for his children
small;
Doing, with courage stern and grim,
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen:
Only a dad, but the best of men.
A Texas paper stands sponsor for
this beautiful petition:
Teach me that sixty minutes make
one hour, sixteen ounces one pound,
and one hundred cents one dollar.
Help me to live so that I can lie
down at night with a clear conscience,
unhaunted by the faces of those to
whom 1 have brought pain. Teach
me to earn my meal ticket on the
square and in doing so that I may
not stick the gaff where it does not
belong.
Deafen me to the jingle of tainted
money. Blind me to the faults of
others, and reveal to me my own.
Keep me young enough to laugh
with my children and to lose myself
in their play. And then, when comes
the smell of flowers and the tread of
soft steps and the crushing of one
hearse’s wheels in the gravel in front
of my place, make the ceremony short
and the epitaph simple: "Here Lies a
Man.”
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