The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-17
Cultivat;ng lOath,ul Virtues.


II we would wear youth in our face:
! late in life, we must carry it also late il
/ life in our hearts. In other words, We
/ must cultivate the youthful virtues,
/ most important among which are un'
| worldlineSs, affectiona. eness and purity
I of heart.
Note thoughtfully those individuals
in whom "a predominant passion fol
obtaining the good things of liie' "a:
Webster defines worldliness) prevails,
and see how hardened and unbeau-
tifying trait it iS-how like a with
cred leaf becomes the heart which
worldliEess controls. Wrapped in the
icy atmosphere OF it, own ambitions
/ and pursuits, how self-absorbed and
callous, how coldly unresponsive to all
demands of human sympathy or
pity it becomes. And not only does
such a one defraud himself largely of
the love and sympathy OF his kind, but
he also loses, through having lost by
wOrldliness his capacity for enjoying,
the delight which nature to the IN
worldly yields. What 10 him is the
freshness of the spring time, the bloom
and fragrance OF summer. the glory and
richness of autumn, the glittering ma
je,ty of winter? Neither the 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 murmur 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 as the spirit little by little, from
the predominant love, takes permanent
form with n, so also the mes of the
face take on the colors of the soul
Punched and sharpened features: cold.
greedy, UnScrLpulOus, vet shallow
eyes; hard, unsympathet;c, calculating
mouth-these are the lineaments
which such men and women must
consent I'D wear.
In love, we find the very fountain
of immortal youth. Yet how many
miss of it, nourishing envy. jealousy.
hatred, or at best 4 cold indifference!
How many. whose Ives 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 feverish and impure, from the I'M
iolfulness and unhOliness of the bond
she wears. Turn from this picture to
that home wherein love reigns a tri-
umphapt queen. List to the bounding
step; look at the glowing cheek, the
sparkling eye! LoFe nourishes; love
cheers. Cares NAV 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,
as well as woman, suffers from these
inharmoniOus relations. His life being
less introverted and intense, more am d
outside influences, he does not so NOR
bidly feed upon his own heart, yet lie
also misses the bliss of loving and be No
loved.
Mother. love also is great bcautifier.
Let not the young and thoughtless
wife, congratulating herself on her ex-
emption from the pains and cares of
maternity, flatter herself that she shall.
float down the stream OF time wearing
more youth and beauty on on her brow
than that palnr matron with the baby
at her breast. Let her be assured
that the patience, the devotion the I'M
selfiShness which motherhood develops,
outweighs the cares and pains which ii
entails, while an interest in those eager
lives growing up at her side, serves 10
keep the mother intellect awake, her
svmpathies 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 a.e in which passing years
have left purity of heart behind. This
cOnd ton of he life leaves also its inn
press upon the external form. disclos-
inc itself in the tur5id eve, the shifting
glance, the hollOw-ring fictitious,
COnCedlIuS hoiCc-"oiSeu lelh'ohS> THAN
furrowed check. gray hair or wasted
form.
To miss the prett;ness and bloom OF
youth may be painful; to miss its
strength and vigor trying: to miss its
hopefulness and cheerful outlook. dis
beartening; to miss its affectionateneSs,
both in receiving and giving, sadden-
ing; but to miss its innocence, is To miss
honor, tranquility. self-respect, and the
comfort of the assurance: blessed are
the pure in heart, for they shall see
Goo" -COuntry Gentleman.
Said an old Colorado miner a snorI
time ago: They amt turning out nc
millionaires in Colorado these days.
The nrnn of hnnanza KINGS l. nlaNpd