EMPIRE SELF-RAISING FLOUR The West AUSTRALIAN
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Rises Above all Others.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1911
In and Around the Home
love, and fear of God, along
'Mid Pleasures and Palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's r o place like home
T. Mary
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Dear refuge of my sin -sick heart Sweet solace of my tears To thee my voice its burden bears Of sighing, crying, human cares Its dismal freight of fears. !
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storm -tossed soul is sinking fast In struggling agony Wrecked hopes lie 'neath the moaning waves, The ocean, white with fury raves. shine out, Star of the Sea My
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Where lone, upon the rock I cling
Beneath the starless skies, ocean's endless dirges mourn, By riving tempests lashed and torn, Oh, let me raise mine eyes M here
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Though hands and heart and soul be chained, To earth -strewn rocks afar, Where howling night winds sob and sob, Where breaking hearts still throb and
throb,
Yet, let me see the Star -M. C. BUEHULE, in " New World," Chicago. !
Struggle to restore a human 5oul to order and to righteouirtess by patience and by love, instead of crushing it by your inflex.ible vindictiveness, your savage justice. No one need hope to rise above his present situation who suffers small things to pass by unimproved, or who neglects, metaphorically sneaking to pick or a farthing because it is not a shilling. A
sense of humility and reverence
is characteristic of the truly great and deeply learned, and wherever we ond a conceited or a tlippant mind, we may be sure that there is a shallowness behind it, for conceit and flippancy, cocksureness and irreverence, are the natural oil -spring of
superficiality. Cheeriness is a thing to he more profoundly grateful for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural spontaneous cheerfulnesss is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, and so fcster and cherish that after a few years, the world will never suspect that it was not a hereditary gift.Helen Hunt .Jackson.
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with habits of truthfulness, honesty, obedience and. the other virtues. Happy is the mother, whose noble ambition it is to beget the child not for the earth but for Heaven LOVE IS BLIND. In training their children, however, mothers have to be on their guard against a defeat characteristic of those who love. A child may be developing certain defects of character, perhaps vices, and the mother may be almost unaware of the fact. Having eyes she sees not. And !
Cough
Few people know how to cough pro-
perly. In fact, it never occurs to the ordinary individual that there is a right wa,y, and a wrong way of doing it. Yet it is a matter of no small importance. If every sigh means a drop of blood out of the heart, as people say, every cough means some greater or less proportion of time knocked off one's life. Most people cough as loudly and forcibly as they can. Some chronic coughers seem to feel Proud of the terrilble noise they make. But it is rather costly noise, for the simple reason that it tears and inflames the lungs. The lungs consist of en extraordinarily delicate sponge -like tissue, which sometimes gets inflamed and choked with phlegm. When we try to get rid of this substance, we cough. But obviously, if we remove it violently we raust necessarily injure the delicate lung tissue. Therefore, thin yourself to cough as gently as possible. patronise Our Mattison's
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The Mother as Teacher THE CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER. The mother is the first and best teacher of the child. The work of giving religious instruction in accordance with the child's capacity must begin with her. It must' not he left to governesses or other teachers. The mother who neglects this sacred duto does a great harm to the child, and takes a bright jewel from her own crown. The child learns his first prayers at her knee, and it is tie business of the mother-and for truly. Christian mothers it is a labour of love-to impress upon the young mind day by day, the knowledge,
hence no guidance can be given to the child in regard to faults which may take a turn very injurious to the character, and even to the whole spiritual life of the child. The fact is-as has been noticed from the earliest ages-love is blind. Just as hate sees nothing but faults, so love sees-as a rule-nothing but perfections. And mothers, like others, are liable to this weakness. The remedy is twofold be thankful for advice, and don't forget prayer for light. The great danger for mothers is that they rarely see their children-or at least the most loved of them-such as they are in reality. Many even have such illusions in the matter as not to perceive in their even evident faults which would shock them in other children. The remedy for this evil is to honestly admit that they are not good judges in such a cause-since it is in some way their own cause-and consequently to accept, and even to invite, ims partial advice which unhappily they too often refuse to listen to. It is very difficult for a mother to pronounce a well-balanced judgment on those whom she sees transfOgured by the love with which she surrounds them. In addition, the Christian mother ought to beg from God every day this disinterested clear sight without which true education is impossible. I.et her often ask herself before her crucifix some such question as this " During this day have I allowed my tenderness or my pride to extenuate or to disguise the faults of my child ? " Such practices would he a remedy for many illusions. and would transform a great number of families. DON'T PUT IT OFF Begin the religious formation of the child early. Don't put it off. The earlier you begin the. better. Ths mind of the young child is like soft wax, easily moulded. Work on it ;
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while it is yet soft and plisat. As time wears on it will stiffen and the task of moulding will become more and more difficult. Don't even wait of till the child comes to the use reason. Begin as soon as the child is capable of contracting habits of mind and heart. Such habits begin early-even before the use of reason, and speaking in a practical sense,
habits are the basis of all reasonable education. Do not, therefore, be content witn Precept ; but endeavour to induce good habits in the child's nature at the very time you are instructing it, for instance, habits of prayer, of pure intention, of obedience, of cheerful. ness, of reverence for authority and so on.
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LOFTY AIMS. The great prizes of eternal life arising from detachment, self-denial, prayer and love, are intended by God not only for priests, and religious, but even for this child. Teach him, then, to aim high. He must not be satisfied with merely keeping the Ten Commandments and saving his soul. Urged on to the noble ambition of being a Saint, let him learn to act as a child of God, with a truly magnificent destiny appointed for him in his Father's home " Dream valiantly, 0 youth, ar.d thy dreams shall become realities." Aim' high.
It is not the victory which gives happiness to noble hearts-it is the struggle.-Count de Montalemhert. Turn to God and pray. Dc not say, " I cannot pray," for that is never true. You can always cry out to God for mercy, and ask. Him to help you, if you like. Everyone can. It wants the will only.. Say a hundred times over from your " Lord, be merciful to me, a heart sinner " -Father Wilberforce. 0.1). !
The Bright Girl The girl who makes friends wherever she goes is delightful. She comes into a room like a sea-breeze-fresh, laughing. nodding right and left with baPpy impartiality. She is readyfor anything, and never throws cold water on y our plans. she generally sees the funny side of things, and she has such a whole -hearted way of describing them that you feel as if you had seen them yourself. She does not retail gossip, though and she does not think how to he spiteful, or sarcastic, or hitter, and she never exaggerates to produce an impression. She knows how to he clever and funny without being unkind, or untruthful, or coarse. She prefers to consider the world good and honest until it proves itself otherwise. She always gets along, for she has friends everywhere. Her heart is big enough to contain everyand she never forgets her ho(IY, friends, or is forgotten by them.
E. (LateARUNDEL BECHTEL R.
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such vague repri-
what a bad child !" " You never do 'what you are told!" " I cannot keep you quiet," or " Did I not tell you fifty times to close the door after you ? " In general. reprimands are worse than useless, unless they are accompanied by an authority which gently but firmly insists on its rights and which the thoughtless youngster comes to recognise as a law which cannot be set aside. Words of rebuke are often idle sounds. The great point is to see that the child hearkens to the voice of authority here and now in act. !
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