Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

: ior their happiness. Beauty is such subtl,
thlng, 1t does not seem to depend upor
q 1aclal proportions, or upon the sparkle O
the eye, or upon the flush of the cheek
fou sometimes find it among irregular fea
lures. 1t is the soul shining through the
face that makes one beautiful. But alas
Tor those wlfo depend upon mere personal
charms. They will come to disappoint
ment and to a great fret. There are Sc
many different opinions about what are per.
sonal charms and then sickness and trou.
, Die and age do make such ravages. The
poorest god that woman ever worships is
her own face. The saddest sight in all the
world IS woman who has built everything
on good looks, when the charms begin TO
vanish. o, how they try to cover the
wrinkles and hide the rayages of time
When time, with iron-shod feet, steps ON a
lace, the hoof-marks remain, and YOU can
not hide them. 1t is silly to trv to hide
them. l think the most repulsive fool in
all the world is an old fool!
$Why, my friends, should you be ashamed
to be getting old? 1t is a sign-prin,a tacie
evidence that you have behaved toIerablv
well or you would not have lived this time
The grandest thing, think, is eternity.
ana that is made up of countless years
When the Bible would set forth the attrac.
tiveness of Jesus Christ, it says, " His hair
was white as snow" But when the color
goes from the cheek, and the lustre from
the eye, and the spring from the step, and
the gracefulness from the gait, alas! for
those who have built their time and their
eternity upon good looks. But all the
passage of years cannot take out of ones
face benignity and kindness and commas
sion and faith. Culture your heart and Won
culture your face. The brightest glory that
ever beamed from woman's face is the
religion of Jesus Christ. In the last war
two hundred wounded soldiers came to
Philadelphia one night, and came un.
heralded, and they had to extemporize
hospital for them, and the Christian women
OF my Church, and of other Churches. went
out that night to take care of the poor
wounded fellows. That night saw n
Christian woman go through the wards of
the hospital, her hair dishevelled in the ex.
element of the hour. Her face was nlain
very plain; but after the wounds were
washed and the new bandages were mt
around the splintered limbs, and the ex.
hausted boy fell off into mis- first pleasant
sleep, she put her hand on his brow. and |
he started in his dream, and said, go. 7 |
thought an angel touched mer' There |
may have been no classic elegance in the |
features of Mrs. Harris, who came into the
hospital after the "Seven DAYS" awful
tight before Richmond, as she sat down bv |
a wounded drummerboy and heard him
soliloquize, ga ball through my body. and
my poor mother will never again see her
boy. What pity it is ~ And she leaned
over him and said, "Shall | be your
mother, and comfort your" And he looked
up and said, ayes, I'll try to think she's
here. Please to write long letter to her.
and tell her all about it, and send her
lock of my hair to comfort her. But I
would like to have you tell her how much
sutfered-yes, would like you to do that,
for she would feel so for me- Hold nv
hand while | die" There may have been
no classic elegance in her features, but all
the hospitals of Harrison's Landing and
Fortress Monroe would have agreed that
she was beautiful; and if any rough man in
all that ward had insulted her, some
wounded soldier would have leaped from
his couch, on his best foot, and struck him
dead with crutch.
Again | advise you not 10 Depend for hap
piaess upon dte .taatteries Of men. 1t is poor
to your sex that so many men
feel obliged in your presence to offer un-
meaning compliments. Men capable of
elegant and elaborate conversation else
where sometimes feel called upon at the
door of the drawingroom to drop their
common sense and to dole out sickening
batteries. They say things about your
dress and about your appearance that you
know and they know are false. They saw
you are an angel. You know YOU are not.
Determined to tell the truth in office and
store and shop, they consider it honorable I
TO- lie to woman. The same thing that
they told you on this side Of the drawing
room, three minutes ago they said to some !
one on the other side of the drawing-room.
D, let no one trample on your self-respect. {
The meanest thing on which woman can /
build her happiness is the batteries of men. '
Again ] charge you not 70 depend for han
0iness upon he discipieship Of fashion. Some
men are just as proud of being out of
The fashion as others are Of being in it.
have seen men as vain of their old.fashion
,oat and their eccentric hat as your brain.
ess fop is proud Of his dangling fooleries
Fashion sometimes makes a reasonable de- /.
mand Of us, and then we ought to yield to !;
{. The daisies of the field have their
ashton Of color and leaf; the honeysuckles
nave their fashion of ear-drop, and the !
inownakes flung out Of the winter heavens