The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-15

right, all the more because it was pain
ful-how twice, three times, she seemed
to feel some invisible hand restraining
her own, how she looked helplessly up
to the silent sunset sky; then with q
sort of desperation dropped the letter
into the bOx-and repented it to her
dying day.
But.thes difficult crises seldom hap
pen. On the whole, far more harm is
done by irresolution than by rashness.
Even, as l have heard it said, and
agree thereto, weakness is worse than
wickedness-at any rate, it is more
dangerous. The man who never can
make up his mind, who lets chance aft
er chance slip past him, is always q
little too late for everything, and never
knows that kindly Fortune has touched
him till he catches the last sad sweep
of her garment as she goes by him, and
on to others: the misery which this man
creates and inficts-for it is fallacy
that any one can be nobody's enemy
but his owns in the aggregate much
greater than that caused by the strong
bad man, whom one recognizes at once,
and against whom one can protect ones
self little. Against the other, one
never can. Our very pity takes up
arms against our Judgment: for we
know the certain end
"He that win not when he may,
When he would he shall have nay"
Only for g single hopeful minute is the
tide on the turn; when once it has turn
ed, it has turned forever, and
Leaves him at eve on the bleak shore alone
All thorough business men and WON
en-for women are required to be good
q <,fh h,,c ~ IN, fhro n a Y
- know that the aptitude for seeing the
right moment to do thing, and doing
it, without rashness, but also without
success-success in anything. He who
puts off till tomorrow what can be done
or ought to be done-to-day, is hope.
less as a clerk, a servant, or in any po.
sition in which regular systematic work
is required. Most fatal is such q quail.
ty in q master or mistress, for the real
heart of a family is always the mistress.
If she can not "take the tide at the
turn" Judge the fittest moment for do.
mestic decisions of all kinds, and carry
them out, woe betide her! There may
be no actual shipwreck, but her house.
hold bark will be very helmless vessel
at best.
This habit of dilatofiness and indie.
cision is SO much of it mere habit that
children can not be too early taught
first the necessity of making up ones
mind, and then of acting upon it. The
trick of f" hanging about" of wasting
minute after minute, hour after hour
in work as in play-for idlers never
even play conscientiously-is often &C
quired in mere infancy, too often. alas
in imitation of elders and betters, anC
never got rid of to the end of life
What is in the boy or girl mere careless
ness, becomes in the man and woman ,
confirmed popularity, which haunt.
them like q curse, causing no end o.
misery to themselves and all belonging
to them.
We know our gains and achieve
ments; our losses, our failures, we neve
fully know. We may ,dimly kuess a
them, by our despair over some appli
cation thrown aside and neglected, til
the lost chance of benefiting ourselve!
or our neighbor can never be recalled
our remorse over an unanswered letter
when the writer has suddenly gon'
whittier no kindly word can reach hin
any more; our regret over welcom,
visits left unpaid, and pleasant meet
ings let slip, till friendship, worn out
dies natural death, or burns itself Il
ashes like fire without fresh Goals
Then we may lay tie blame on Provi
dence, luck, circumstances; anything o.
anybody except the true sinners-our
selves.-"J John Halifdr, Gentleman" {,
HarDer's Bdzar.