Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-05-05
PHASES or CHARACTER,


TO escape this maltcrablc decree of
Providence. Tho endeavor Is always
as futile as II is foolish. Yet many
people waste their time in laboring TO
avoid pain and trouble, When they
fail they become melancholy, grabbed,
and cynical.
Having possessed ialse views of life
their establishment has proved too
much for them. They have degen-
Grated into misanthropcs. Out upon
tho weaklingsl Why, tho very title Is
synonymous with that of coward
We're it not for tho cares, grief, and
disappointments that iall TO the lot OF
us all, we should become too cnamored
of life; and, when the summons came
to take our places In the 'innumerable
caravan that moves TO the pale realms
of shade" we should shrink back ap-
palled, and beg to "bc not yet cut off"
( A healthy man is never misanthropic;
tho condition is too unnatural. Sick
ness sometimes excuses it, but even
then a strong character generally keeps
up n asmiling face What though the
world does grow cold, and fortune re-
fuses to smile? 1t is neither manly
nor Christian to grow morose and dis
.contented. Misanthropy isonly anotb-
'cr name for despair. As long as a
man has hope, he is not bothered by
it. "Lifc has its clouds, but most OF
them have their silver Innings, if we
only watch and wait" f
DO not these reflections remind you,
reader, OF the subject of a former essay
only short time ago--namely, the
being who was described as "unstable
as water?" Take up the thread Of
the description where we left it, and
you will have the life of a purposeless,
vascillating creature.
Is there nothing pitiful 10 you,
reader, in the picture of this middle
aged man, whose work remains for
ever undonc, who had planned in youth
to reap such an abundant harvest, but
who stands now, in tho very prime
and summer of his age, with the spring
crops still unsown, with the fields OF
his life bare and barren, with the broad
lands ofopportunity still untitled, bring
ing no interest against the day when
his accounts would be required of him2
II we miss the seed-time, what shall
we even think casting INTO the ground
when our neighbor's wheat is ripening?
"Unstable as water" q life altogeth-
er wrong, the time has not been re.
deemed, the seed has not been sown,
and there is 10 grain for the gathering.
Dear reader, there is kind of wife
who might save such man, even at
the eleventh hour--a wife with clear
head and n strong will, able to carry
things with a high hand-clever and
active and determined and economical
witbal. Such wife might be the
savior OF this unstable man; but, as a
matter Of course, such wife he does
not seek, but rather one who is gentle
and loving and trusting-a Woman who
is perfectly incompetent to fight out
every battlc-a woman with sweet
placid iace-with calm, tnougntrui eyc'
with smooth, glossy hair-with timid
caressing manners--with no head to
nlaco bnt with n henri 10 be broken.
II Il hard for ms 70 write about such
n lovely woman AS this man chooses
for wife---hard tor us TO go on and
tell of the storms and rain that fall
nnon that dreaming bead,-of the trials
and crosses that how that moor heart
Ibeiore sbe lies down 10 sIeep the only
peaceful slumber our moor humanity
! knows She IL not t6c wife for tbis
man and beisn NOT tbc husband for her
Int notw;lbstand;ng thov take one
another for better or i6r worse There
4 no bet,er 10 the matter however
il is ali worse II is like everything
| else ho undortakes-n mistake 4
man aunstablc as water - fond of fisb.
inc shooting and hunting n man who
| kcens omen bouse at ali times il not
| caIculated 10 make n woman bapnv
In fashionable church the marriage
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| da,, bo hr;ncs homo h;s 5r;dc tho ann.
NAV srn oIadden;no Tho earth tbe
ant,mn IL ,ar otr l;Ia Tho man,s GOOD
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