The Red Cloud chief., 1881-06-16
Planning

Planning
When a man is ?, n hs co :" G%,ln :
HOUSE. inc .is. ywhether he has sufii-
Is tne eos., 1T" Tner the plan is
c'ent 10 nnlss drawn to feet and inches,
se,.,eu on builders. having a working
so .na' i1sy build with exactness and
Pian'.aty, knowing at every step just
III is TO be done. In building houses
" begin always at the foundation; the
larger and higher the building is to be
the more underground work is to be
done. Spires, cupolas, finals,
mentations; these are the finishing
touches, the last things done.
There are other ways Of building
houses. Many fine buildings in the
..old country" date from successive
periods of time. a part of them being
put up by n generation and added TO
by succeeding generations. But each
installment Of the structure was erected
according To a plan and made harmo-
Nous with its predecessors.
Not houses alone are made according
TO a plan, but their furniture as well,
and this extends to all the smallest
items included i'm house furnishings.
All are made according to some pat
tern. We have patterns for our clothes.
our ornaments-everything around us
is made after some design, and the
variations i'm these designs give rise to
fashion, to which so many are willing
slaves.
All this is very alphabetical. and
when spoken of merely material things
is easily understood. but how is it when
applied TO things immaterialP How
many OF our readers are living accord
ing To n plaza plan in which each
day, each week, each year, each decade
has its appointed place? How many
of them arc mere sballops aflOat on the
stream of time. borne hilhera and thither
rs the current may chance to carry
them, without rudder or helmsman. or
sails or guidance? The fact that to a
large extent We have no option as to
| what we NAV do and be. that our
Lines and bounds" are appointed Us.
is no reason whv we sheuld not use the
limited power of choice that is ours.
ITO him that hath shall be given"
There seemed little chance that Benja-
min Disraeli should be Prime Minister
of England when he was a young man
of t~wenty-one; everything but himself
was against him. He had no fortune,
no friends, he belonged to a race pro-
scribed. but he conquered everything.
and at last accomplished his plans. n
pushed fortune, realized and probably
more than realized his proudest ambi-
tions. In the stcadfastnesS of aim, the
iixedness of purpose. the unilinching
and tircless perseverance which charac-
terized him. he is an example for all
men and all women.
If a house is to have but one room,
that N room may be arranged so rs to
afford the greatest facility for work and
comfort, or it may be SO arranged or
disarranged as to promote constant
discomfort and confusion. She who
lives in disorder in q small house will
carry the same mode Of living into a
palace. Years ago a poor family on
their way TO Texas were shipwreckcd
and brought to New Orleans where
they were given a room in n of the
best hotels in that CITY. In two hours
that clegantly-fufnished room mad all
the appearance possible to it of the
North Can DINA cabin in which the fam
lily had previously been domiciled.
Every chair had some bundle or gar
mem in it.. Blankets were taken from
the bed and strewn on the floor to- ''set
the baby on" and squalor pcepcd out
from every curtain and bit of finishing
in the room.
The orderly, systematic soul impresses
itself on the body it inhabits, the
clothes of that body. the apartment it
dwclls in, the life all around it. ''SOul
is form and doth the body make" and
this body is not merely the clothing
of fleshly integument, but all the sur
roundings of every sort that are the cx-
preston of the soul. A man can show
on ten acres of land what kind of a
farmer he is rs well rs upon a thousand.
a woman can show what kind of a
.housekecper she is in a |twO-roOmed
house rs well as in n five-story ''brOwn-
stone front" Only those who are
faithful over the few things are fit to
be rulers Over many things.
Not every one has the ability to sit
down and plan ont an enterprise Ofeven
moderate dimensions from beginning
to end. Some are so made that they
can see but one step at a time. can lake
but one step at n time. but there are
few who have not sense enough to sec
that. and to take that with some sort of
discretion, and having done SO much, to
see the step next to be taken. If we
plan but for one day at a time, m week
at a time. N year at a time. and plan
wisely, the whole of life will be har-
monious and more or less successful.
But if we permit ourselves to drift
whittier the chance current may carry
us, what a we expect but to be strand
ed or shipwrecked? To an extent our
lives are mapped out for us by parents,
by Providence. by various circum-
stances, but within limits We are all
conscious of freedom to choose and plan
for ourselves, and he is wisest who, &C
cepting the limitations which he cannot
pass, makes the best use of his faculties
in improving to the utmost the Oppor-
tunities of whatever sort he may call
his own, and sets about the work &C
cording to a well-conceived and we'll
digested plan.--M. Y. Tribune.
Keeping the Mind in Order.
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