Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-11
THE GAZETTE: FORT WORTH TEXAS MONDAY, JANUARY II.

the princess passed through, all fhe
sick were cheered at her coming, and
those who could be reused neither by
doctor or nurse from their stupor, would
get I'M on their elbows To look at her. aud
wan and wasted lips prayed an audible
prayer "God bless the princess OF Wales
Doesn't she look beautiful"
But how uncertain is the tarrying of
beauty in a human countenance. Bxplo-
sion OF kerosene lamp turns into scarf
ficatlon and scoundrel with one dash OF
vltfiOl may dlspel it, or Time will drive
mis- chariot wheels across the bright face,
cutting II up in deep ruts and gullies
But there is an eternal beauty on the face
OF some women whom rough and IN
gallant werld may crlticise as homely,
and though their features may contradict
all the laws OF Layeter on physiUgnomy,
vet they have gTaces Of soul that will keep
them attractive for tine ana glorious
through all eternity.
There are two or three circumstances
IN which the plainest wife is a queen OF
beauty 20 her husband whatever her
statue or profile. BY financial panic or
betrayal Of business partner, the man
goes down, and returning to his home
that evening he says; 81 am ruinedi am
In disgrace for ever; care not whether /
live or die.n it is an agltated story he Is
telling In the household that winter night.
He says: "Thc furniture must 20, the
house must 90, the social position must
go,n aud from being sought for ohsequl-
ously they mast be cold-shOuldered every
where. After he ceases talking and the
wife has heard all IN silence, she says;
us that all? Why, you had nothing
when married you, aud you have only
come back TO where You started. II you
think that my happiness md that OF the
children depend on these trappings, yon
do not know me, though We have lived
together thirty ears. God is not dead,
and the National Bank Of Heaven. has
not suspended payment, and if you
don't mind don't care cent.
What little we need OF food
and raiment the rest OF our lives we can
get, and don't propose to sit down aud
NOPE and grOan. Mary, hand me that
darning needle. And, John, light one of
the other gas-burners Aud, Jimmy,
open the register for little more heat.
Fanny, fetch your fathers slippers. de-
clare! nave forgotten to set the rising
for those cakes! And while she is busy
at 1t he hears her humming Newton's old
hymn, "To-morrow."
"Itcan bring with It nothing
Hut lie will a us through;
Who gives the lilies clOthing
win cl the hi- PEG 10 100;
Denea the spreading heavens
No eatu but Is fed,
Aud he who te, DIS the ravens
VIII give his children bread.
"Though vine ner 1gtreo either
Their wonted fruit shou d bear
Though all the fields should wither
Nor docks nof herds be there;
Yet God The same abiding,
Hi- praise shall tune my voice.
For while in Hin con1ding
cannot but rel ice"
The husband looks up in ama1ement
and says: "Well, well, you are the great
est woman | ever saw. | thought you
would FAINT dead away when | told you"
And us he looks at her, all the gl,ries Of
physiognomy In the court of Louis XIV on
the modern fashion plales. are tame as
impaired with the superhuman splendorS
OF that woman's face Joan of Arc, Marie
AntOinctte ana La Belle Hamilton, the en-.
chlntment of the court of Charles III, are
nowhere.
There is another time when the PLANE It
wife is II queen Of beauty to her husband
She has done the work of life. She
has reared her children for God
ANU iltiNNus ulu iNOuEu SOiUt vi lUtHl
may be little wild they will yet come
back, for God has promised She is dy.
| ing aud her husband stands BY They
think over all the years of their compan-
| ionship, the weddings and the butials, the
| ups aud the downs, the successes and the
failures. They talk over the goodness of
God and his faithlulness to children's
| children. She has no fear about going
| The Lord has sustained her so many years
\ she would not dare To mistfust him now.
| The lips of both OF them tremble as they
| say goodbye and encourage each other
about an carly meeting in better world.
| The breath is feeber aud feebler and
| stops Are you sure of it2 just hold
that mirror to the mouth and see if there
/ Is any yapor gathering on the surface.
/ Gone! As one OF the neighbors takes The
old man by the arm gently and says
| "Come, YOU had better 20 into the next
room and rest" he says; "Wait mo-
ment; must take one more look at thar
face and at those handsr' Beuutilul!
Beautiful
My friends, hope you do not call that
death That Is autumnal sunset. That Is
a crystalline river pouring into crystal
sea. That is the solo of human life over
powered by hallelujah chorus. That is a
queens coronation. That IL heaven.
That Is the way my father stood nj eighty :
two, seeing my mother depart at sew, n y
nine. Perhaps so your father and mother
went, l wonder If we will all die as well
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