EMPIRE SELF-RAISING F LOUR The West AUSTRALIAN
Rises Above all Others.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1911
In and Around the Home
life thereby a harder one, but it is true nevertheless.
Deadly Monotony 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
Three Gates II you are tempted to reveal A tale some one to you bas told, About another, make it pass, Before you speak, three gates of gold. These narrow gates-First "Is :t :
true ? "
" Ie it needful ? "
In your
mind Give truthful answer.
And the next Is last and narrowest-"Is it kind ? And if to reach your lips at last It passes through these gateways three, Then you may tell the tale, nor fear What the result of speech may be.
The Need of Sleep A woman who finds herself
weakening in nerve strength must rest. This rest must be systematic, not spasmodic. She must break up the accustomed routine of her work. She must do all these things moderately. She must rise late and re-
tire First, a few words as to the hygi-
ene of sleep. The sleeping room should he as roomy as possible, well aired and well ventilated, and it is best to have at least two windows in it. At night these windows should be opened both top and bottom, except in the bitterest weather, when they rnay he opened at the top only. If it is a choice of opening them at the top or the bottom, by all means open them at the top. for the reason that cool air has a tendency to descend. Then, never have too many or too heavy bedclothes on the bed. lather sleep too lightly clad, wake up with the cold, and pull on something warm. early in the morning, than sleep too warm all night. Fea-
ther beds deprecated.
cannot be too strongly
4ister Hopeful's come to town In a sweet and rosy gown.
Like a rainbow in the sky, Ope the world and let her glide To the hearts that ache inside, Sister Hopeful's full of cheerOff with trouble and with fear Take the rose her red cheeks wear, While her laughter mocks at care Sister Hopeful's at the gateSwing it wide she must not wait Let her in the street of strife With her golden dream of life. -The Ilentztown Bard.
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Books are rich, not only in thought and sentiment, but in character. The best society in the
world is that which lives in books. To the weak as well as to the strong in the hours of weakness books are inspiring friends and tea chers. A book is the most appropriate gift that friendship can make. It never changes, it never grows unfashionable or old. It is soured by no neglect, is jealous of no rival ; but always its clean, clear pages are ready to amuse, interest and instruct. The voice that speaks the thought may change, or grow still for ever the heart that prompted the kindly and cheering word may grow cold and forgetful ; but the page that mirrors it is changeless, and faithful. The Book that records the incarnation of divine love is God's best gift to man, and the books which are filled with kindly thought and generous sympathy are the best gifts of friend to friend. Make up your mind what is best for you to read, and read it. Master a few books. Life is short and books are many. Instead of having your mind a garret crowded with rubbish, make it a parlour with rich furniture, beautifully arranged, in which you would not be ashamed to have the whole world enter.-The Angelus. ;
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The Ilead of the Family
The father of a family, sas The Catholic Columbian, should he respected as its head by all the subordinate members and his authority in it should he upheld. It is shocking to see some wives encouraging the children to treat t" father with insolence and defiance i titters of difference or in circumstances where he is right. They foster insubordination. They breed trouble. They undermine their own
authority.
The day will likely come when the young folk, grown a little older, will show contempt fcr the other, as well as for the father. In the regulation of the home and
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the management of the children, the parents should Break with one it,
scholar or the millionaire.
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There is something most Pathetic in this fact, and of all workers in this world, the farmer's wives who live far away from the centres of civilisation, and who cannot have the pleasures of a gossip at an afterThe True Sphere of Woman noon tea, or of the thrilling experIr the last issue of "The Outlook' iences of a pray er meeting, gradualthe Mrs. Newell Dwight Hillis contri- ly become so utterly weary of butes an interesting paper on "Some routine of their life of toil that in Successes of American Women," in the records of our insane asylums which the following pregnant pas- we find very many such histories. Such women are most to be sympatsage occurs hised with. But the sphere where woman has No woman, unless she be one of made her first, last, and greatest success, and where there will always exceptional mental force, can begin the day in loneliness as she milks be the first, last, and greatest need her cows, and end the toil of setting of her service, is in home -making. The tendency of the day is towards sun without having had a word of her fewer homes, but though the home- thought from any one outside maker is rarer, fortunately the type own family, without becoming in mentally enervated. is far from exLinet. The rewards of some degree is a definite income, however small, and Hence the lesson to be learned of a constant companionship of her the old nursery adage, " All work own age, attracts many young girls and no play makes Jack a dull boy. to shop and facLory life-girls who The Influence of Books do not realise that by this choice of occupation they are committing two One's reading is naturally a fair evils. They are cutting themselves index to his character. Observe, in off from the possibility of a proper almost any home you visit, the training for the career for which hooks that lie on the centertable, or every true woman hopes in her in- note those that are taken by premost heart, and they are filling a ference from the public library, and Place which belongs to a girl who you may judge in no small degree, has no choice, but must earn her not only the intellectual tastes and livelihood. Every place filled by a general intelligence of the family, but girl to whom self-support is unnecalso --what is of far deeper moment ceFsary lessens the chance for some -their moral attainments and spiritgirl a little less well qualified, makes ual advancement. " A man is competition a little keener, and known," it is said, " by the combrings down the scale of wages for pany he keeps." It is usually true both men and women, thus mating that a man's character may, to a the possibility of a home in the fut- great extent, be ascertained by ure a little more distant for herself knowing the hooks he reads. You or for some one else. Girls do not may, indeed, judge a man more acrealise this when ambition or restless- curately le- the books and papers he ness drives them out of their homes chooses than by the company he to seek self-support. Most of them keeps for his associates are often world indignantly deny any part in imposed upon him, but his reading is making the conditions of a 'working - the result of choice. woman's lot more difficult and her In reading it is a safe rule to ab;
Sister Hopeful's dancing by
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dly is down.
voice. -I'hey should be like one person. But if a difference of opinion arises between them in matters open to discussion, they both being what the they ought to be as parents, father has the right to have his judgment prevail. It is the duty of the wife to give in. It is an obligation to her to set an example to the children of reverence for the head of the family.
Monotony of life is as responsible for mental exhaustion or breakdown as overwork, either physical or mental. The clerk who toils from day to day, simply shipping goods from a back door into a waggon, or the housemaid who has absolutely no relief from domestic drudgery, is quite as likely to become neurasthenic as
stain from all books which, while they have some good things about them, have also a Mixture of evil. You may have read books that had the two elements in them-the good and the bad. Which stayed longer in your memory ?-Always the bad ! The heart is often like a sieve, which lets small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like a loadatone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings gathers up the steel and repels the brass ; but it is generally just the opposite. If y ou attempt to plunge through a hedge of burs to get one blackberry, you will get more burs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read one bad book, however good you are. You say, " The influence is insignificant but remember the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lockjaw. Alas, if through curiosity, you pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of a man who should take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely to see if it really would blow
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