The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-20
FOR THE LADIES.
Beautiful Things.

Beautiful Things.
Beautiful faces are those that wear
II matters but little If dark or fair
Whole-souled honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance pr t1ence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that Is earnest, brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that 20
On kindly ministries to and fro
Down loneliest ways, II God wills il so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
CeaSeless burdens of hoInely care,
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless,
Silent rivers of happiness,
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.
BEAUTIFUL twilight, at set of sun,
Beautiful goal with race well won,
Beautiful rest, with work well done
Beautiful groves, where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep
over worn out hands! o, beautiful sleep.
Rosa BOnheur smokes.
The Empress of Germany often appears i'm
public ROBBED in simple calico dress. She
discourages extravaganza in dress among the
ladies.
Miss Kate Claxton Mrs Dore Lyon is the
grand daughter of the Rev. Spencer W.
Cone, celebrated Baptist divine, who was
an actor i'm the old Richmond theater when
the terrible fire occurred there in 1911.
1t is proposed TO appoint the widow of the
late General Custer postmistress at Monroe,
Michigan. If the brave little lady desires
this position all good and true officials
will certainly say, "By all means, yes"
The daughter-in-law of General Jackson,
the wife of his son Andrew, is compelled by
financial pressure to part with valuable re-
lies collected by her during her residence at
the white house. She is now living at the
Hermitage, neaHNashville, Tenn.
A Wisconsin paper tells it for truth that
Edmonia Lewis, the colored sculptures, was
born in a wigwam. at Sheboygan, and repre-
serts that peculiarly ill-reported mixture of
races the Sambo or negro-Indian-her father
being Of African decent and her mother
Winnebago squaw.
Mrs. Clerc. the widow of the late Laurent
Clerc, of Hartford, Connecticut, who was the
first teacher of the deaf and dumb in the
United States, is dangerously i'll from the
effects of fall which she received at her
home in New Haven few days ago. She is
more than so years old.
Governor JEWELS younger daughter is
a very charitable young person. She has
| ), 500 year for pin money and during her
| last winter in Washington spent nearly all
her money in supporting several poor fam
| lies, whom she daily visited in person, and
! for whose wants she cared. She also organ
lied Dorcas society, whose generous fingers
made many garments for the poor
The modest virgin. the prudent wife, or
| the careful matron, are much more service
able in life than petticoated philosophers,
/ clustering heroines or virago queens. She
who makes her children happy, who re-
| claims the one from vice and trains the
other to virtue, is a much greater character
| than ladies described in romance, whose sole
occupation is to murder mankind with
shafts from their culver or their eyes,
| Goldsmith.
No companion so valuable and safe can a
man have as discreet and godly wife, Ii is
| her province and care to make her home
neat and attractive in appearance; genial,
sweet and healthy in atmOsphere-the place
! to which her husband shall turn with glad
/ and longing heart. 1t is her aim to be in
| person and manner so engaging in spirits so
| fresh, in affection so genuine and true, in
| thought so elevated and pure, that he shall
seek her companionship with never-failing
zest and ioy And it is by such companion
ship that a sweet and refined woman molds
/ and fashions her husband to 4 grace and
worth to him attainable in no other way Her
| delicate sense seiZes upon, and unconsciously
| elevates, his esthetic nature. He grows up
toward her standard of good taste. The gen.
tleness of her spirit woes the slumbering no.
bility of his nature TO the fortune of life
and makes him great in the strength of man
ly tenderness. Her piety, more simple, trust
ful and steadfast than his, sweetly holds him
TO truth, to duty and to God. Her grace OF
manner gently smooths away masculine
roughness and angularity. A most mighty
weilder of the moral pruning knife is Judi
cious wife. One by one, eccentricities and
rudeness from the outer life, excrescences
and viscious growths from the inner life, are
| cut away, until the man, in character and
conduct, is rounded and complete. Monday
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