The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-07
uultivatins Youthful Virtues.


Orltivatins Youthful Virtues.
II wo would wear youth in our faces
lato in life, we must carry it also late in
life in our hearts. In other words, we
mast cultivate the youthful virtues.
most important among which are un-
worldlIneSs, affectionateness and purity
of heart.
Note thoughtfully those individuals
in whom "a predominant passion for
obtaining the good things Of life" Gas
Webster defines worldliness) prevails,
and see how hardened and unbeau-
tifying trait it is-how like q with
cred leaf becomes the heart which
worldliress controls. Wrapped in the
icy atmosphere OF its own ambitions
and pursuits, how self-absorbed and
ca!lous. how coldly unresponsive to all
demands of human sympathy or
pity it becomes! And not only does
such one defraud himself largely of
the love and sympathy OF his kind, but
he also loses, through having lost by
woridliness his capacity for enjoying,
The delight which nature to the I'M
worldly yields. What to him is the
freshness of the spring-time, the bloom
and fragrance of summer, the glory and
richness of autumn, the glittering ma
jessy of winter? Neither tho dewy
sweetness of the morning nor the calm
grandeur of the starry night has power
to win his soul from its earthly throne.
For him the tender sunshine has no
balm, the murmuc of the summer breeze
no voice. He walks, day after day and
year after year, amid beautiful sights
and scents and sounds, but they waken
no melody, they stir no rapture in his
breast. The fountain of youthful en-
thusiasm, of unworldly delight, is
dried up.
And az the spirit little by little, from
the predominant love, takes permanent
face take on the colors of the soul.
Punched and sharpened features; cold,
greedy, inscriptions, yet shallow
eyes; hard, unsympathetic, calculating
mouth these are the lineaments
which such men and women must
consent to wear.
In low, we find the very fountain
of immortal youth. Yet how many
miss OF it, nourishing envy. jealousy,
hatred, or at best cold indifference!
How many, whose lives love might
ennobie and bless, barter il off for I'M
satisfying dross. How many woman,
marrying for worldly motives, sells
her precious birthright-the inesti-
mable bliss of loving for mess Of
pottage! Nor need she expect to es-
cape the penalty. Her heart, deprived
OF its needed aliment, must famish and
pine, her cheek wither and grow pale,
her blood become weak aId sluggish,
Or feverisn and impure, from the I'M
ioyfulness and unholiness of the bond
she wears. Turn from this picture to
that home wherein love reigns tri-
umphant queen. List to the bounding
step; look at the glowing cheek, the
sparkling eye! Love nourishes; love
cheers. Cares may be heavy, but love
renders them light. Misfortunes may
befall, but love helps to endure. Sor-
rows may sadden, but SO long as love
fingers, they can be borne. Man also,
rs we'll as woman, suffers from these
inharmonious relations. His life being
less ntroverted and intense, more am d
outside influences, he does not so NOR
bidly feed upon mis- own heart, vet he
also misses the bliss of loving and beng
loved.
Mother. love also is a great beautifier.
Let not the young and thoughtless
wife, congratulating herself on her ex-
emption from the pains and cares of
maternity, fatter herself that she shall
iIoat down the stream OF time wearing
more youth and beauty on on her brow
than that paler matron with the baby
at her breast. Let her be assured
that the patience. the devotion the I'M
sellishness which motherhood develops,
outweighs the cares and pains which it
entails, while an interest in those eager
lives growing up at her side, serves to
keep the mothers intellect awake, her
sympathies keen, and her heart her, lip
and her eye ever tender and beautiful
and young.
But most sorrowfully contrasting
with the sweet loneliness of childhood,
is that old age in which passing years
have left purity of heart behind. This
cond ton of The life leaves also its i'm
press upon the external form, disclos-
ing itself in the turbid eve, the shifting
glance, the hollow-rinsing, fictitious,
concealing voice-worse blemishes than
furrowcd cheek. gray hair or wasted
form.
To miss the prettiness and bloom of
youth may be painful: to miss its
strength and yigor trying; to miss its
hopefuiness and cheerful outlook. dis
hesrtening; to miss its affectionateness,
both in receiving and giving, sadden-
ins; but to miss its innocence, is to miss
honor, tranquility, self-respect, and the
comfort of the assurance: "BleSSed are
the pucc in heart, for they shall see
God. "--C Country Gentleman.