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gives them calmness and self-poise. They take duty as the substance of existence, gladly accepting whatever joy comes as its lustre and letting life find its justification in growth.

"Home-keeping hearts are happiest." Average people make our homes, the homes with the sitting-rooms, which represent the common life of humanity. Let us keep the good old word, for we must sit as individuals, as families, and as nations, in order to rest, and wait, and pause, and think. There are the mothers who bake and mend, and are glad because husbands like pies and children love to romp. There are the fathers who quietly work all day that their boy may go to college; who have a common purse with their wife, and call her "mother," as tribute, unawares, to her blessed maternity which has beautified the home, and who, when death has led their life-long companion to another dwelling-place, quickly follow her, as they know not what else to do. It is the life

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