The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-17
The Lords Prayer.

| used to think the Loid's Prayer
was u short prayer; but rs | live
long and sec more of life, | begin to
believe there is no such thing as get
ting through it. II man in pray
Ing that prayer were TO stop in every
sentence until he thoroughly prayed
it would take him n life time. "Our
Inthcr"-thcrc would be II wall II
hundred feet in these two wordS for
some men. If lie might say "our
tyrant, or" our monarch, " or even
our Creator, y hr could get along
with it butt our Fathcr,"why the man
Is almost a saint who can pray that.
You read, "Thy will be done, "
and you say to yourself, so, | can
pray that, y but God says, How is it
about your temper and your pride?
How is it about Your business aud
your daily life :" This is II rcvoIuy
tionary petition. II would make an
mans shop or store tumble to the
ground 10 utter it. Who can stand
at the end Of the avenue along which
all his pleasant thoughts aud wishes
are %blossoming like flowers, and
send these terrible words, 'Thy
will be done" crushing through it?
| think it the most searching
prayer to pray in the world.
INlItrNcr uI PRETTY WoMEN.-Iiic
becomes more harmonious, it beats with
Il kcc2cr pulse of enjoyment, in the
presence OF pretty me After all, u
charmirG little figure, II piulnnt little
face, H. the best remedy tor half the
worries Of cNiSlanCc, its ycXatiohs, its
dullnrss, its diSappointmcntS. Andcvcn
in the larger and more placid types of
beauty Ut u Lady Dumbcllc, il there is II
tiuge of stupidity, there il at any rate,
an atmosphere Of rcposc, II genial in
i%lucncc, moulding our social converse
and habits into gcntlcr shapes.
Iii is amusing to see how the prtti.
ness ut II woman tells on her dress, how
the order and propricty of her dress
tcllS on the home. The pursuit Of beauty,
the habit Of prcain"Ss, give an ideal dig
nifty 10 the arrangement OF her bonnet
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very ,wccpO her ample folds nthc pose
"i her lanGGor, III the gay start Of her
excitement, one lccls the s%oitcning, har-
muniIii g influence ui her last lock IN
the glass. she may be gay or sorrow-
tut, quiet or chcrrtic, but she must he
pretty. Beauty exercises an imprr-
ccp'ihlr compul ION over her, which
monllS her own lite into graceful and
harmonious form. Her dress rises ont
Of ll" mere clothing of man iuto the
region "i science, III poetry, of art, \
tholsaud considerations OF taste, liar-
monicS Of color, contrasts, correspond
%cncirs, delicate adjustments of light aud
Shalr, dictate The choice OF u shawl or
the tint 0t Il glove.
And rs prcttiucSS tells on dress, it
tells on the home. Flowers, pictures,
the %ay notes of n s"nrta, the choicest,
gorgeous llicS of Indian tapestry,
oi Murano, a hundred rN-
qniSitc something aud nothings, are
the natural setting "I pretty women
The art ol the boudoir tells ON all but the
of the husbands study. Around
that last refuge at blrbai ism floats IN
oftaStc a,rd refinement in
which the pretty wire lives aud moves
and has her being. Aud from this tone
of the home grows the tone of society,
the social laws Of good humor, of pro-
oi scll-rcstraint, of consideration
others, Ut gcntlrncsS. Of yivacity.
The very hush Of the rough tones that
Numbered over Icloponncsus rs Peri
clcs bends over \Spasia. thclittlc turn
lnsS and dclcacics Of phrase, the joyous
-crldnmH aEd i]dlcncSs of the manifest
AMI most energetic of men, tells OF the
the triumph 1T pretty women.