Our Women and Children
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Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
OUR RESOLUTION
We are entering upon the threshold
of a new year. Another year freighted
with its sorrows, its joys, its de
spairs, its hopes and its great possi
bilities. It is a time when we make
new resolutions, and many of us,
when we fail in the keeping, fall back
into the “old rut” and “give up.”
Each day is the beginning of a new
year; each day is full of fresh oppor
tunities for doing good, for “going
and growing.” Each day we may
gain fresh impetus, new strength,
greater desires to attain our ideals.
“Just for today” the poet pleads for
strength and grace. Today alone is
ours and each day is given us that we
may lift and be lifted. It matters not
what the past has been, not what yes
terday was; today is ours to make of
it what we will.
Let us then each day be “still
achieving, still pursuing,” for “today
well lived makes every yesverday a
dream of happiness aqd every to
morrow a vision of hope.”
L. S. E.
LEARN FOR YOUR CHILDREN.
No fault of child training is as fre
quent or as glaring as the general
assumption that the child should be
taught to think as it elders think,
and that the point of view and the
motive of the child are the same as
the point of view and the motives of
the parents.
The mother who is most successful
in training her children is she who
cultivates most carefully the memory
of her own childhood, and retains the
freshness of mind, the openness to
impressions, the habit of unconven
tional thinking, which enable her to
view each circumstance of her child’s
life separately, and deal with each of
its problems with sympathy, reason
and justice, regardless of the habits
and customs of her neighbors or
friends toward their children.
There is no fixed single rule that
applies to all children under a given
set of conditions. The problem may be
the same in a thousand cases, and
yet no two out of the thousand chil
dren can be handled in quite the
same way, with satisfactory results.
Keep your memory of your own
childhood fresh. Cultivate wholesome
sympathy toward nature, and especial
ly toward every small living creature.
You cannot train your child effective
ly unless you first understand it.
Therefore, instead of trying to force
it to understand you, devote your best
energies to arriving at full under
standing of the child. Learn from your
children.—Mothers’ Magazine.
THE NEW YEAR.
Amid a world-wide hush, the old year
dies;
Its every word and deed beyond re
call,
By all our vain regrets, and tears and
•ighs,
For the Recording Angel has them
all.
But hark! Upon the list’ning ear
doth fall
The chimes, which herald that the
year is new;
Bring out the swaddling clothes, anu
hide the pall,
Take up thy work, thy destiny to
hew,
What has been done is gone, be
heedful what ye do.
—Mrs. W. B. Hogan.
MISS HELEN HAGAN.
The Sunday Register of New Haven,
Conn., says of Miss Helen Hagan, the
brilliant concert pianist who will be
heard in Omaha, February 10th:
“Her playing brought down the
house. Her natural gifts consist of a
musicianly instinct, a certain emotion
and sensibility, with rather more than
a spark of the divine fire, the posses
sion of which is beyond money and
beyond price.”
HE WASN’T EVEN MISSED.
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Proof That a Bridegroom is the Least
Important Part of a Wedding.
There was to be a wedding of great
importance in colored circles. Prepa
rations were made for weeks and a
big crowd turned out on the auspicious
evening.
Next day the wife of a judge
chanced to meet the happy bride, who
had formerly been her maid.
“Well, Martha,” said Mrs. J. “did
you have a big wedding?”
“’Deed Ah did, missus; ’deed Ah
did; the mos’ splendiferous occasion
of de season.”
“Receive many handsome pres
ents?”
“Yes’m, yes’m, de hull house was
just crowded wiv de gifts.”
“Did you have your house nicely
decorated ?”
“Yes’m, yes’m. Everybody done
wear der very best, look jes’ lak a
white folks’ dress affaia, yes’m.”
“And yourself, Martha, how did you
look?”
“Ah was suttinly some scrumptious,
yes’m. Ah done wore mah white
bridal dress, an’ orange blossoms,
yes’m. Ah was some kid.”
“And the bridegroom, how did he
appear?”
“De bridegroom ? Aw, dat triflin’
low down houn’ dawg, he didn’t show
up at all, but we had a magnificous
occasion wivout him, jest de same.”—
National Food Magazine.
PLAYING SANTA CLAUS.
We received the following letter,
with enclosure, for which we are
grateful and which we were pleased
to use for the purpose designated:
Dec. 20, 1915.
Rev John Albert Williams,
Omaha,
Dear Sir—Could I ask you the favor
of buying a gift for some colored child,
who will rot have much of a Christ
mas.
I am sending only $2.00, but the
good wishes that go with it are large.
Kindly do not publish my name.
Very truly,
OLD FOLKS’ HOME FUND.
No one is authorized to solicit for
The Monitor's Old Folks’ Home fund.
Contributions must be sent or brought
to the office of The Monitor. A receipt
on a printed form will be given to
each contributor. His name and the
amount will be published in our
columns. As soon as $100 is reecived
it will be turned over to the treasurer
of the Negro Women’s Christian as
sociation to be paid on the property,
and a copy of the receipt from the
treasurer and from the real estate
agent to whom payment is made will
be published in this paper.
Acknowledgments.
Nov. 1., E. W. Pryor.$5.00
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We Wish You
a Happy
and Prosperous
New Year
“Ring out the old *
Ring in the new, ♦
Ring out the false .
Ring in the true.” I
These lines from Tennyson are j
suggestive at this season. And T
that reminds us to remind you that f
we have some rare bargains in {
books.
Thomas
Kilpatrick& Co.
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Stationers and Engravers
Have moved to their new location
1620 Harney St., State Bank Bldo
Where larger facilities enable them
to give you better service
We recommend the
STATE FURNITURE CO.
Corner 14th and Dodge Sts.
as the most reliable, accommodat
ing and economical furniture store
to buy from.
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Justice of the Peace
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F. S. MOREY, Proprietor
1303-05 North 24th Street
Phone Welter 820
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