The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-08-13
love for the RenniIlni. .

There |. one thing. grl. just hin,ed Il in
my last letter, that ! must talk about again ,
and thatis, the duty of fcutIyatug love for the
beautiful or learning to love onythiug that is
pretty, No one has SO good an opportunity to
do this as those who live in the country: and
nothing will more certainly refine the manners
and improve the heart. Nay, have an idea
that 1t make PLAN people pretty, and hand
some ones quite beautiful, Our faces will Ger
tainly get to look like our thoughts in time Did
YOU never notice how ugly aud cross people get
to he who are very often angry The stamp of
passion gets liked upon Their face and they can
no, look pleasantly when they try never could
like anybody that was ugly for no good person
ever was so. They have course features, bad
campIrAion uugraceiul forms but they never
can be ugly for # they are good tempered and
klnd-f they wish aud try 10 make everybody
comfortable ard happy, there win be a pleasant
look on their faces that will axe them pretty
So, those who love heau,frl things will think
about them; this will make their thoughts beau.
tiful, aud these will beautify their faces and
manners. You country girls are ap. To think all
the pretty things are in town, IN the shop win
dows but there 10 nothing halt SO heautful as
the things you trample under our feet Fake
li,te tuit Of moss and look at it clnsely--see
how beautiful it is-how many different kinds
there are, and try to decide which is the most
perf"c;. See how 'hickly it covers the old rot.
ton log, as If it would hide its decay from those
tall forest lords who now stand .where 1t ouce
stood, and how their proud heads in the bright
sunshine, while this old tree That perhaps bore
the very acorn they sprany from, is moIldering
To dust at their feet. The green leaves it once
bore. the rough bark that protected it. are gone
but the beautiful moss creeps over and covers ii
up So lovingly. People say n,Uss i. the emblem
Of mother love which cugs most fondIy when
all else h.s gone. That is al true and It is like
every other love that is love for those always
cllngs most fondIy in misfortune Moss is like
tha Mantle % charity, too, for II coyereth a mui.
tliudc oifauts, Look at it often. think of 1t. he.
cause the Creator made 1t beautiful and wonder,
ful, and intended we should grow wiser and bet
ter by aGnrng it.
| Look up at .he old trees. too How strong
and mighty, how wonderful and beautiful they
arei Is 1t not wonderful that the water which
falls to the earth should be drawn in by the thou.
sands UtlilG bbrous roots and run through them
fnr very many yards, until i, somes to the body
| ot the tree, and then crcepup, NJ, np. until some
reach the very iopmoSt lrait The law ofna,ure
wh'ch produces the result, is so very simple
the same that would make the water run out OF
II basin 1t you leave one end Of a towel N It, and
the other banging over the edge Then, tn.
thousands and thousands Of green leaves that
sparkle and dance in the sun light You have
often admired artificial flowers and leaves bu,
you never saw any that could ba compared tu
one these leaves. The little network Of tibres OF
veins that run all through it, TO take the moisture
to every part, ia more than any human being
could make Then. in every leaf there are count
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