The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-08
Details.

The lives OF all Of us are made up of
details. We have not been consulted
or employed IN drawing the g'eat out
lines of life OF which our individual
lives form fractional parts we are set
20 fill In certain portions Of this outline
aiter certain prescribed pattern, The
Designer has allotted W. our field Of
operation, aud In large measure pre-
seribcd the tools we are 10 work with.
The manner and quality of the work u
Is ours 10 control, and we are permitted
such variations OF the pattern as in
dlylduality Of work requires. Two
copies by different hands OF the same
writing. the same painting, the same
statue, the same embroidery pattern, are
neya exactly alike, Each Is impressed
with n quality derived from the indiyid-
uality Of the worker No two persons
can discharge the duties Of father,
mother, husband, wife, brother, sister,
friend, citizen, IN precisely the same
way, though the pattern Tor all were
the same,
However these duties may vary In the
doing they are alike In this, that they
are made up Of an Infinite number Of
small duties, so small that we some
times weary Of their pettiness and long
for some great thing TO do, We fancy,
perhaps, that the lives OF the so-callcd
great are made up OF great things, but
when we become acquainted with them
we find that their lives, too, are made up
Of minute details Burdensome and
inlolerable become the ceremony and
etiquette Of courts TO hearty lovers OF
sincerity, frahkness and truth Pre-.
scribed dress and manners and
style and phraseology become trite and
wearlsome, but stripped Of attention TO
these details what would be q Courtp
The ulna-iashionablo are so simply be-
cause of attention to the last refine
monts andrequirements Of conventional
forms,
Go into painters studio and note
with what patience and care and llnger-
ing fondness all the parts Of his master
piece are wrought How dellcately are
tones brought out, how skillfully are
ELECTS produced, by u touch Of color
here, a yelling Of color there, the soft
ening Of this line, the strengthening OF
that, the deepening Of shadows here,
heightenlng Of lights there, However
grand the outline, the picture Is not
complete till all It's details are perfectly
wrought out II II Is historical and the
artist conscientious, you will have the
| dress, the furniture, the manners of the
time, exactly reproduced so far as In.
dustry and research can avail on the
| part Of the painter, The great worl,
will represent the sum OF innumorablC
smaller works, all harmonious, eaol
complete. This attention 20 details il
characteristic Of every largely success
ful man or woman in every department
of life.
The attitude of mind implied in thit
conscientious attention to details Is the
same, no matter what the work may be
and therefore every work, however
humble, may bo dignlaed and ennoble(
by the manner OF It's doing, There are
many who are called 10 lifelong drudg
cry as howors Of wood and drawers o
water, as ditch.diggers and coal
beavers, and there are many who inth,
reverses Of fortune are glad TO do thh
work, to do any work that will carr
their bread We snail not DO asked II
tho day Of final account what the par
ticular kind of work given us was, bu
whether we did IL well, faithfully
cheerfully, patiently And then OF
friend, "Discontent, the greater par
Of whose life has been spent in otheI
folks kitchens, will come In for her re
ward and have perhaps u brighter
crown than that of any mistress she hai
served,
There are u few minds equally n
home IN drawing large outlines and II
filing IN these outlines TO the last dc
tail, But the great masses Of mankinC
work best when their tasks are pre-
scribcd and their lines Of action run II
fixed routine Lord Bacon mapped
out q work which has kept the whole
scientific world busy ever since in com
pleting, and tho work grows rs th,
years 90 on, Our scientists think nov
In atoms and crilhs and molecules; the,
are busy with the invisible, the intangi
bic, almost the inconceivablo Ou
physicians are searching the micro
scope all the tissues and fluids Of th,
body, and compelling them TO give "
many secrets OF their hcalthful or dis
oaSed condition Ourhygienists are In
sisting on attention TO such little detail
as pure water, puro air, cleanliness
proper diet suitable dress, abundan
exercise, Our phllanthropists are in
Stating that our children should lear
how TO use their hands and their brain
In performing the necessary and homel
offices Of daily life, Our housekeeper
are reducing or oSalting their vocation
and lifting Il where II belongs, into th
region OF high art, and this Is accom-
pllshod by systematic and intelligon
attention to details. ~ Y. Tribune.