River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-27
Models.
Who likes a model?


What | mean is some good exemplary
person, who is a pattern for all good.
ness, and is a continual reminder to us
of our shortcomings.
confess frankly that do not-that
is, Icannot say from my heart of hearts
that enjoy being with them.
In the first place they discourage
one. A real genuine model usually
takes the life tight out of you-you fee
depressed, in other words. ''sat on.
You feel that you might just as well
! give right up and acknowledge that
you are nothing, and never will be
anything; that you are a mistake, and
poor mistake at that; and the feeling
of depression that this thought give,
you makes you appear at your very
worst.
You are conscious that You are act
ing at fearful disadvantage, or else
You become SO eXasperated that you
don care and act ugly. 1t is sure tc
be one or the other.
In the second place a model tires
one. We not only feel their superiority,
but we feel their power. They usually
have the effect of taking our vitality
away and making US feel as limp and
weak as a rag.
know several models. : They are
mostly women-and shall ! confess itF
three or four of them are school teach
ers (don think that | mean any re-
Election on school teachers at large, for
/ do noO. These models are highly
educated, accomplished and highly
cultivated, with high Christian prin-
ciples. They look askance at you
when you use slang or make a gram
NAUTICAL error and catch You up quick il
you make a radical remark or express
yourself little out of the usual line of
thought. They look your clothes over
to see if you are dressed "neatly" and
not too gayly," and watch you to see
if you are lady like and they are so
afraid that something is "out of place
or Improper
know one of these models who
would not give her little niece story
book until She had read it all through
herself to see that there was nothing
''hurtful'' in it. / wonder what she
expected to find in a pretty English
story book.
Models are usually very hard to live
with. They make you feel your own
shortcomings all the time, and either
help your spiritual growth amazingly
or set it back in proportion.
Models are mostly single ! notice.
though once in a while YOU will find a
married model, but il seems a kind of
mistake somehow.
often wonder why it is so, but when
ever / hear people say ''such a girl or
such a young man is a model and
would make a splendid wife or husband
for some" usually make up my mind
that they will remain single.
Why is it; can anyone tell2
1t must be awful to marry one of
these models.
And between us all, right here, !
don think they are always any better
than some that are just ordinary.
| once knew a model man. He
was unmarried and an elder in his
church, considered by all as shining
light for those in darkness. Every one
said, ''look at Brother Blank: there is
perfect man, if there ever was one
such an exemplary, highly moral,
Christian life as he leeds; what a model
husband he would make" | happen
ed to know "Brother Blank s" maiden
sisters, who kept house for him, and
more tired, discouraged, exasperated
WON an | never knew, for their mod
ell brother was never known to help
them, nor think of their comfort
At house-cleanimg time these poor
women whipped their own carpets as
best they could, and as for small chores
why, they did those themselves be-
cause their model elder brother was
too lazy to chop wood, split kindling
or bring in water. This was the man
that would be a model husband
know | said, "deliver me from such, if
that is a sample of what is called per
lection
OF course / don't mean to condemn
womanly women, or manly men, or say
that we should not try to reach a GER
tain standard of perfection.
But in our efforts let us keep humble.
The more womanly or manly
we become the more we should
think of the feelings Of others,
and never get on pedestals to
become the terror Of those younger and
less fortunate than ourselves. We
should never try to impress others with
what we know or with our own attain
ments, or convince them of their own
inferiority to ourselves.
We should do our best to be truly
manly, or womanly, helping each other |
kindly and lovingly, not as censorious !
Judges or models" but as brothers
and sisters, as men and women remem- |
oering that there is only one model, and |
hat is divine One