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Saturday. January 6, 1912,1 (IS) IS one by a square meal. Vie always thouglit that if the New England Puritans, had eaten better dinners, and more of the -they wouldn't - hare had so much surplus energy to expend in killing witches and ban ishing estimable citizens who differ- ed with them in church matters. And that is just what I'll do with that vicious beast of a hen: transform her into a pie with flaky crust and plenty of good rich gravy and invite some dear old ladies to bring their knit ting and come up and spend the day with me and tell about old times and' eat that pie and be happy. t I love old people. They are so sweet and interesting and gentle that 'it is not only a delight to be with them it, is also' a' muchtneeded les- .Bon in good manners. Then they've lived through so much that wisdom has come to them, and ..patience, and they appreciate every little thing that is done for their pleasure. And we do so pitifully little! We intend to go and see-them, and we don't; we intend to. take them flowers, and we don't; we intend to remember , them at Christmas and on their an- r niversaries, and we don't; and by and by while we are intending, they quietly fall asleep,-and it is too late, and instead- of precious memories of kiddly deeds, .we have only shrivel ed, blighted regrets for all that we left undone. - ;.' But we were speaking of $he' gar den. A clump of sweet balm, at the gate is riotous with little green shoots that the first snow will prob ably wipe , out of existence, but that isn't worrying them at all; They are as fresh and fragrant and chirpy as if they were century-plants with one hundred years of life ahead of them instead of forth-putting, "reckless lit tle leaves apppearing three months tufApa -ihtif nlana In tha wnrl A ia " ready, and in their emulation of the ? early bird,- forgetting entirely the disastrous fate of the early worm. An I "riT. Ati'f Ittiaw HVia lina Ta. auu jgd J. VlSU uuu rv J. AAV ItUVf HAW tween courage and recklessness is so faint that sometimes it would seem to be largely imaginary. And possi . bly that clump of balm braving the . January snows deserves a place in legendary lore alongside the white thorn of Glastonbury that-always blooms at Christmas to celebrate the birth of the blessed Christ Child. PERSONAL IDEALS FOR THE NEW YEAR. - TO WEIGH the material ia the scales of the personal, and measure life by the standard of love; to prize health as contagious happiness, wealth as potential service, reputation as latent influence, learning for the light it can shed, power for the help it can give, station for the- good it can do; to. choose in each case what is good on the whole, and ac cept cheerfully incidental evils involved; to put my whole self into all that I do, and indulge no single de , sire at the expense of myself as a whole; to crowd out, fear by devotion to duty, and see present and future as one; to treat others as I would be treated, and myself as I would my best friend; to lend no oil to the foolish, but let my light shine freely for all; to make no gain, by an other's loss, and buy no pleasure with another's pain; to harbor no thought of another which I would be unwill ing that , other should know; to say nothing unkind to amuse myself , and nothing false to please others; to take no pride in weaker men's failings, and bear no malice toward those who lo wrong; to pity the selfish no less than the poor, the proud as much as the outcast, and the cruel even more than the oppressed; to worship God in all that is good and true and beautiful; to serve Christ wherever. a sad heart can be made happy or a wrong will set right; and to recognize God's coming kingdom in every institution and person that helps men to love one another. Dr. William DeWitt Hyde. (The Outlook Co., Pubs.) . President Hyde TEACH THE CHILDREN TO HELP. $QJ50 a Month TOTS A. La Genuine Kimball ORGAN AT FACTORY PRICES - MmI iftertrifo H(tr Uosraby Diagram ff ttyoawritaatonct Voa can now bar tk fsss ous Kimball Organs direct li f t bora the makers at factory prices. We wtQ tend then to lettable people anywbere, to be para tor on our extremely easy payment plan $2.90 ssMOthly and opwarda if doalrod. Operating the largest organ factory la the world, employ iaf the Unrest capital, btrylnr rair materia) in the neatest quantity ior cashthe KirobaUs ysteni of mana. lacturlni and distributing saves you 2Q to f SO ) "OUR CHILDREN." DR. PAUL CARUS is a man of deep and independent thought, and his book, "Our Children," contains many things worth , the earnest considera tion of every parent. The spirit of the book may be judged by the fol lowing inspiring sentence: "Since we can give our chil dren better chances in their lives than we ourselves possessed, we can expect of them more, than i.we have accomplished. They should surpass us, and It is our duty to enable them to do so." The book deals chiefly with the mental and. moral training ofthe child, and is of a very practical na ture, not at all a theoretical treatise, but full of illustrations drawn from the author's personal experience. -Here is another paragraph too good to miss quoting: ' "It is apparent that mankind : would never have developed true .humanity; had it never witness "' ed a mother's love. The sublim est and noblest sentiments would' be-still; unknown, had not gen eration after generation been trained in the school of parental care and self-sacrifice. Men have learned the lessons of life by Let Them Learn While Little and They Will Be Willing When Older. "Whoever helps a, child, helps humanity with a distinctness and immediateness which no other help ever given, to human creatures in any other stage of their lives can possibly give again." Phillips Brooks. THE unoccupied child is always either dissatisfied and fretful ' or meddlesome and mischievous, a tax on the mother's nerves. AH children should be taught to amuse them 'selves; but the line between amuse ment and some, helpful occupation may be very faint. I know a mother whose theory was , that every child should be taught to be helpful and best to develop this spirit of helpfulness a child should never be refused when it asked to help. Following this theory,, when her 1 18-months-old daughter, tod dling around after her, asked to help with the dishes, she was given knives and forks to wipe (the mother after ward washing and wiping them over again) and the child was happy in the belief that she was helping. Soon, the mother ' saw that the child was doing the work well, and when she asked to help, was given the regular wipinglQ wel "and became what she had thought she was a real help. One day, the mother noticed that in her zeal to help she was wiping the walls with a paper as high as she could reach, while she told- her baby sister how she was. helping mamma. So, the mother gave her a dusting cloth, and showed her how to- brush the tops of of the baseboards, and the chairs. ' As her family grew, never did this wise mother refuse their help. Often and often she had ' to do the tasks over again, as they had begged to do things their little hands could not perform. This made the mother ex tra work, of course, but she was proving her theory to be,, correct and felt that it was worth the extra trou ble to be teaching her children help- ' fulness. - When, as so frequently occurred, they begged to help with N impossible things, she substituted something else, explaining to them that it would be more help to her, and they gladly did as she suggested. When, by the turn of . fortune's wheel, the "mother had to become the bread-winner, the two little daugh- ers tomed it, that they almost unconsciously as sumed many tasks, including dish washing the dish-pan and draining pan being set on a chair to accom modate them, -sweeping the living washing began to be distasteful the mother helped them to mate up- stories about their work, calling the knives and forks meh and women and the spoons children. And so this family of two daughters and a: son grew up happy, loving, self-reliant, and helpful. Their greatest pleasure is to be able to help their mother, and next to her, some one else. In outside life they are careful, consci entious and trustworthy, never shirk ing, heartily doing their best,-so that their training in helpfulness is mak ing them a success in life. If the mother needed any further proof of the correctness of her the ory, it came one day when visiting in a home where the tired, over worked, worn-out mother asked her 16-year-old daughter to help, which she heartily refused to do.. ; : Seeing that the guest had noticed her refusal, the girl tried to excuse herself by saying: "I used to want to help, but mmma never would let me; always telling me to go away, I was more bother than help, and now I don't know how, .and don't want to learn." In a conversation that followed this second mother confessed that when her children were small she did not .want to be bothered with them, and refused all their many offers to help, because she could do the work herself more easily than she could show and teach them, thoughtlessly (or was it heartlessly) telling them she had no time, for them. So her children had all grown up thoughtless, selfish, careless , and indolent so far as family responsi bilities were concerned., This is no fancy sketch; but a bit of actual family histories. These two mothers both reaped according to what they had sown. MRS. C. S. EVERTS. strictly first-class) II you want aa organ at all, you want a good one j a mere pretty case with no music in it will not do. 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The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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