Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-20

among irregular features. Ii Is the soul
shining through the face thst makes one
beautiful. But alas for those who de-
pend upon
MERK PERSONAL CHARMS.
They will come to disappointment and to
& crest fret. There are so many Different
opinions shout what are personal charms;
and then sickness, and trouble,
and age, do make such
raysgss. The poorest god that
woman ever worships is her own fsce.
ne saddest sight in ell the world is
woman who has built every thing on good
looks, when the charms begin to vanish!
Oh, how they try to cover the wrinkles
and hide the rayAges of time! When
Time, with ironshod feet, steps on face,
the hoofmArks remEin, aud yen cannot
hide them. 1t is silly to try TO hide them
think the most repulsiVe fool Ia all the
world is an old foCl.
Why, my friends, should you be
ashamed to be getting old2 It's sign
il Is prima facie evidence that you have
behaved tolersb!y well, or you would not
have lived to this time. The grsDdest
thing, think, is eternity, and that Is
made up Of countless years. When the
Bible would set 10 IN the attrsctiveress
of Jesus Cnrist, il says: His hair was
white IS snow" But when the color
goes from the cheek, and the lustsr from
the eye, and the spring from the step,
and the gracefulDess from the
gait, slas! for those who have built their
time and their eternity upon good locks.
But all the passage of years can not take
cut OF ne's face oenignity, and kindness,
aad compassion, and faith. The bright
est glory that ever besmed from Womsn's
face is the religion Of Jesus Christ. In
the last war 200 wounded soldiers came
to Phllsdelphia one night, aud came ua-
he AIDED, and they had to extemporize &
hospital for them, and the Christian VIC
men OF my church and OF other churches,
went out that night to take care OF the
poor wounded fellows. That hight saw
Christian woman 60 through the wards
OF the hospital, her sleeve5 rolled up,
resdy for hard work, her hair GisheVelled
In the excitement OF the hour. Her face
was plain, very plain; but after the
wounds were washed and the lew band
sges were put around the splin-
tered limbs, and the exhausted boy
fell OF into lis first pleasant
sleep, she put her hand on his brow end
he started in his dream and said: ooh,
thought sn angel touched mel" There
may have bsen no classic elegance in the
features of Mrs. Harris, VINO came into
the hospital after the "Seven Days "
awful tight as she sat down by
4 WOUNDED DRUMMER BOY
and heard him eoliloqufza: "a ball
through my body and my mother will
never again see her boy. WHAT pity it
list" And she leaned over him sDd said ::
i'Shall | be your mother and comfort
your" And he looked up and said i:
ayes; I'll try to think SHE'S here. Please
to write long letter 10 her Snd tell her
al about it and send her lock OF my
hAir and comfort rer. But would ike
to have you tell her how much suffered
yes, would like you 20 do that for she
would feel 20 for NE. Hold my hand
while 1 die." There may have been no
classic elegance in her features,
but all the hospitals Of H4r.
rlson's Landing and Fortress
Monroe would have agreed thst she was
beautiful; and if any rough man in al
that ward had insulted her, some
wounded soldier would have leaped from
his couch, on his best foot, and struck
him desd with crutch.
Again; advise you not 10 depend fol
happiness upon the batteries of men. i
is poor compliment to your sex that sc
many men feel obliged In your presence
to tffer urmssning compliments. MeI
capable of elegant and elaborate CONVEX
shtiCn elsewhere, sometimes feel called
upon at the door Of the drawing room Il
drop their common sense and to dole GU
sickenlng batteries. They say things
about your dress, and about your appear
ance, that you know, and they know, sr'
false. Tney say you are an angel. Yol
know you are NOT. Determined to tel
the truth in off :e, and store
aud shop, they consider it honor
abba to lie to q woman. The sam
th.ug that they told you on this side O
he drawing three MINUTES sgt
they said to some one on the other sid
of the drawing room. 0, let no on
trample on your self-respsct. The mean
est Thing on which woman can bull
her happiness is the batteries OF men.
! Again: l charge you not to depend TO
.. happiness upon the discipleship OF world
liness. have seen men as vain Of thei
old fashioned and their eccentric hat g
your brainIess fob Is proud OF his dspglin
, fooleIies. Fashion sometimes makes
reasonable demand OF us, and then VI
ought to yield to 1t. The daisies Of th
field have their fashion of color and leaf
J the honeysuckles have their fashion c
3 esr-drop, and the snoW1akes huog out c
the winter heavens have their fashion {
exquisiteness. Alter the summer shove
: the sky weds the esrth with ring OF Drain
I bow Aud do not think we have rigt
to despise
THE ELBGANCIKs AND FASHIONS
2 of this world, especially il they max
y ressona bic demsn6s upon us but the di
: cipleship and worship Of fashion is deaf
), to the body, and death to the soul. ST
q glad the world is improving. Lock at II
s fashion plates of the seventeenth sn
e eighteenth centuries, and you will fl
e that the world is not SO ex.rsvsgsnt an
d extraordinary now as it was then, and s
' the marvellous things that the grsrC
4 daughter will do will never equal Ii!
: done by the grandmother. Go still far
Their back, to the Bible times, and 20
E. fad that IN those times fashion wielde
IL a more teri Bile sceptre. You have on
?, TO turn to the third chapter OF Isaiah,
@ portion OF the Scriptures from which
IN once preached you q sermoo, to rea(
1t "Bse&use the daughters OF Zion q
l. hEughty, and walk with stretched-for
g necSs aud wanton eyes, walking al
" mncing as they 60, ana making
10 tinkliup with their feet: In tn