THE HOME. CIRCLE. .
a. Column Devoted To Tired .Mothers. As
They Join The Home Circle At Evening
Tide.
- THE BABY. .
"Where did you come from, baby dear?
C)ut of the every where into here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
Where did you get that little tear?
1 found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and
high?
A soft hand stroked it is I went by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white
rose?
I $aw something better tharr anyone knows.
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
Ood spake, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into hooks and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling
things? ., - - ', . '
Yrotn the same box as the cherub's wings.
How did they all come to be you? !
God thought about me and so I grew.
Hut how did you come to us,' you dear?
God thought about you and so I am here.
No heathen god or goddess has
ever had iriore ' zealous devotees
than fashion, or a more absurd
and humiliating ritual, o r,more
mortifying and cruel pennance.
Eer laws, like those of the Medes
and Persians, must1 be . implicitly
obeyed, but unlike them, change,
as certainly as the moon. .They
are rarely founded in reason, us
ually violate common s e ns e ,
sometimes common decency, and
uniformly common comfort. ;
All the strength of the world
and all of it's beauty; all true joy,
everything that consoles, that
feeds hope or throws a ray of
light along our dark jp a t h s ,
everything that makes us see
across our poor lives a splendid
gold and boundless future,' comes
to us f ron? people of simplicity,
those who have made another
object of -their desires, than ihe
passing satisfaction of selfishness
and vanity, and have understood
that the art of living is to know
ho. v to give one's life. 'Parents
m.ld the characters of their chil
dren, or leave the molding to
ethers thus comforts or pester
ments are made! Vf or our 'own
homes and the world.
Home is, where the heart is.
A place our feet may leave but
not our hearts. . Home is where
per.ee, joy, comfort and happi
ness reign. Where father whis
tles merrily, where mother sings
clw-rlly, where children are
happy joyous and gay; where
the family gathers around the
evening lamp, . busy, with books,
the needle, the papers and , the
playthingstnci basks in the sun
shine of each other's love.
"Honu is not merely four square walls
Of Wood and brick and spacious halls'
We would be glad to see all
children grow to useful manhood
and womanhood. ' They ' should
be trained along the lines of in-r
dustry." In short the home ought
to be a sort of school for manual
training, that through this useful
occupation, the real bent' of the
child's ' mind; might be readily
perceived. Not all work, heither
all play, but enough ( of both t o
make -work and pleasure alike
enjoyable and refreshing. .Thus'
the child might be trained in use
ful 'ays, and obtain physical rig-
or rim almost impossible by the
'unusual strain put o n the child
inclined to studious habits.
ltoDERN living is a complex
fair, greatly in contrast with
simple modes of life of the
earlier Americans and of their
inediate descendants. All .the
Piiances which have been - in
vented notably during the past
generation to give heightened
comfort t o the home, and to
'Juake labor easier have added to
comnlexitv of ; liviner, and
itiost materially " to .Jt s cost
ow materially, on would
MELVIN HILL NOTES
Mrs. J. E. Prince and Lewis Smawiy Serious
ly ill Two Marriages Other Notes Of
Interest.
Willie Head went to Ruther
f ordton Monday.
Grover Pagans made a business
trin to Spartanburg Monday.
Mrs. j. E. Prince is very sick
and is not expected to live.
Rev. G. A. Branscom has been
sick for quite awhile with acute
rheumatism. -
' Mrs. J. T. Westbrook and
daughter, Miss Dollie, are visit
ing relatives near Brooklyn, S.
C , this week.
Lee Cocram and Miss Ila Dun-
ahoo were married Sunday. We
wish the young couple much suc
cess all through life.
Mrs. M. A. Gilbert fell while
coming in at her door and came
very near breaking her leg, but
she is improving very fast.
Miss Lena Fagans arid Miss
Hattie Walker were visitors at
our Sunday School Sunday. They
reside near Blackwood, S. C
H. E. Head and daughter, Mis&
Meldora, visited Louis Smawiy
Saturday. The latter has con
sumption and is not expected to
live.
Albert Turner and Miss Luna
Gilbert were married Sunday.
We hope the young couple will be
as happy all through life as they
looked they were Sunday.
hardly believe until he had stud
ied the matter for himself and
discovered beyond a question
that today a man cannot support
a wife and bring up one child,
living in a comforting and not at
all lavish manner, upon what his
ancestor would have considered
sufficient to rear a large family.
He cannot do it on what it cost
his ancestor of only two genera
tions ago. As men and women
are educated.and taught to think
for themselves, they,? will no
longer follpiy blindly the Jead of
the so-called ' 'fashionable bell
wethers, but will recognize the
charm of independent modes o f
thought and life, and will permit
themselves to live according to
their own ideals and in their own
ways. They will see the folly of
attempting to imitate the methods
of the millionaire on the income
of the average business or pro
fessional man, but will live their
own lives,, happy in doing the
things which they really care, to
do, instead of - the things which
they do just because somebody
else does them.
The woman who looks forward
to a time when the lightening of
household cares will give her
time for mental development
should begin the lightening-u p
process at once. There is always
a best way to do things. The
benedict who gave his wife an
easy , lesson in saving time on the
disn-washing b y pitching the
china and the fragments of the
feast all into hot water together
may not have struck the best way.
But if the dishe3 came out of the
scrimmage clean and unbroken
who could dispute his assertion
that it was better than spending
an hour in scraping the plates.
Figuratively speaking there is a !
great deal of time wasted in
scraping the plates in magnify
ing trifles -i n getting ready to
do something. The real business
of the day is crowded through in
some way, but there are so may
other things that are given un -
due prominence that by the time
the day is over the poor house
mother is a bundle of nerves and
weariness, But it isn't always
so. The years that have opened
nearly every avenue in the busi
ness world to women have taught
many of them to apply business
methods in the. management of a
home. Good rules of actionsget
the answer wherever they are ap
plied. If concentration is a ne
cessity in an office it is equally
important in the home; for where
it is properly applied it enables
one to accomplish the best results
with the least labor.
IMMODEST DRESSING.
A Sensible Article On The Immodest Dressing
Of Women During Summer-'-- Ought Not
To Be Dressed In Peek -A-Boo Lace Or
Gauze. . .
: Now that summer weather is
approaching I wish tq beg our fair
women not ' Jto dress as many of
them did last summer. They
then seemed to imagine that the
more the dress exposed the per
son the more stylish it was. If
arms, shoulders and bust, were
not bare, they were covered with
the flimsiest peek-a-boo lace o r
gauze. The sight was embar-
rassmg to naraenea men, ana
called- forth many half sneering
comments. One of these under-
dressed ladies, a visitor to a-Geor--
gia town, was leaving the pres"
ence of a group of men, when one
of them said as he bowed to her,
Lhope to see more of you, Miss
Blank, before you leave town."
"I don't see how he can well see
more o f her, commented an
other man in a low voice! , .
Our good women are yery
scornful of their fallen sisters.'
Why, then,- do they strive to, im
itate and outdo them" in dressing
immodestly ? Do they think this
style of dress is admired by men?
If so, it is a mistake! It brings
uo no thought of a woman's
purity and delicacyqualities j
that to women are a s grace a ri d
fragrance to a flower. Recently
I heard a young man say that it
made him feel ashamed for cer
tain fgirls when he was in their
company, they had so little cov
ering on their bodies. Think of
women who would ; deem them
selves insulted if their purity
were called in question dressing
in such a manner as to embarrass
even a' man of the world! -In
decency's and morality's sake,
dear women, try to dress in a
way more worthy of your5 better
sense and taste and of the res
pect o the men, whom it is, said
I women dress t o please. Refor
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By virtue of the power contained in a cer
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and wife to JrC'E." Gray to secure avinebted''' -f
ness of one hundred and sixty five (t6$;'co)
dollars, as evidenced by three notes for 153 00 ' " ' ; , ' ""
each -of even 4ate therewith which, mortgagi; J. Zx'J "
is of record in Polk county in Book No-. I,
page 546 of the records of mortgages for Mff '..:;r .:'': .
county and default having ,been made iinrtfe.:';;; f vil
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First tract, known as part oftbrTalia Keller f
lands and bonnded as follows: " " ; ; "
7 Beginning on a rock near ' the! o'ld Pacolet fr 'l
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tbence;N 78 yds. toa rock, .f thence Ef io M ,
H. Weaver's line, thence S with said line to 3
tne corner 01 1 nompson ana weaver's iir.c,
thence Norih with Thompson's lin 'to.t&t-
7innm?. contamtntr A acres morc ftr Iec '. -
Stcond (ract, being a pert "bj" the Julia" ; 5
Keller lands beginning on aock; ihieirinn. K iti 'th. -r 1
ingcomerofthe first tract, and runaiNi5, r j
140 yds. to a rock, thencVw, a .ttbmpj6nl ' ' v '
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acres more or less. ; H. E.Gav .
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