Milford chronicle., 1888-02-24


fore you get around the park you viii meet
with ono that cost $1,000. Have on your
wall picture by Copley, and before night
You will hear Of some one who has picture
fresh from the studio Of Church or Bier
stadt.
All that this world can do for you in silver,
in gold, in Administer plush, in Gobelin
tapestry, in wide halls, in lordly acquaint-
anceship, viii not give You the ten thou
sandth part Of a grain Of solid satisfaction.
The English lord, moving in the very high
est sphere, was one day found seated with
his chin on his hand and his elbow on the
window sill, looking out and saying; "Oh,
wish could exchange places with that dosP
Mere social position will never give happi-
ness to woman's soul have had wide
and continuous observation, and l tell the
young women that they who build on mere
social position their souls immortal happiness
are building on the sand.
Suppose that a young woman expends the
brightness of her early life in this unsatisfac-
tory struggle and omits the present oppor-
tunity Of usefulness in the home circle; what
a mistakel
So surely as the years roll around that
home in which you now dwell will become
erty win go into other possession, you your
self will be in other relationships, and that
home which, only year ago, was full Of
congratulation, will be extinguished. When
that period comes you will look back to see
what you did, or what you neglected to do in
the way of making home happy. It will be
too late to correct mistakes. If you did not
smooth the path Of your parents toward the
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bright and happy; If you allowed your
younger brother to go out into the world
unhallOwed by Christian and sisterly infiu-
ences; if you allowed the younger sisters of
your family to come up without feeling that
there had been a Christian example set them
ON your part, there will be nothing but bit
terness of lamentation That bitterness will
be increased by all the surroundings Of that
home; by every chair, by every picture, by
the old time mantel ornaments, by every
thing you can think Of as connected with
that home All these things will .ouse up
agonizing memories. Young women, have
YOU ANYTHING to do in the way
of making your fathers home happyl Now
is the time to attend to it, or leave it forever
undone Time is flying very quickly away.
1 suppose you notice the wrinkles are gather
that have so long looked upon you; there IS
frost in the locks; the foot is not as firm in
its step as it used to be; and they will soon
be gone. The heaviest clod that ever falls
on a parents coffin lid is the memory Of an
ungrateful daughter. Oh, make their last
days bright and beautiful. Do not act as
though they were in the way. Ask their
counsel, seek their prayers, and, after long
ffsr
grave where they sleep. you will find grow
ing all over the mound something loyelier
than cypress, something sweeter than the
rose, something chaster than the lily-the
bright and beautiful memories of filial kind
ness performed ere the dying hand dropped
on you a berediction, and You closed the
lids over the weary eyes of the worn out
pilgrim. Better that, in the hour Of your
birth, you had been struck with orphanage,
and that you had been handed over into the
cold arms Of tho world rather than
that you should have been brought up un-
der fathers care and a mothers tenderness,
at last to seoff at their example and deride
their influence; and on the day when you
followed them in long procession to the
tomb, to find that you are followed by still
larger procession of unfilial deeds done and
wrong words uttered. The one procession
will leave its burden in the tomb and dis
band; but that longer procession Of CHASTITY
memories will forever march and forever
wall. Oh, it is a good time for young wo-
man when she is in her fathers house. How
careful they are Of her welfare! How watch
full those parents of all her interestsl Seated
at the morning repast, father at one end the
table. children on either side and between;
but the years will roll ON, and great changes
will be effected. and one will be missed from
one end the table, and another will be missed
from the other end the table. God pity that
young woman's soul who, il that dark hour,
has nothing but regretful recollections.
go further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mere personal attrac-
tions. 1t would be sheer hypocrisy, because
we may not have it ourselves, to despise, or
affect to despise, beauty in others. When
God gives it he gives it as a blessing and as
a means Of usefulness. David and his army
were coming down from the mountains to
destroy Nabal and his flocks and vineyards.
Tho beautiful Abigail, the wife OF Nabal,
went out to arrest him when be came down
from the mountains, and she succeeded.
Coming to the foot of the hill, she knelt.
David, with his army OF sworn men, came
down over the cliffs, and when he saw her
kneeling at the foot of the hill he cried 'HaltF
to his men, and the caves echoed it; "Haltl
haltr That one beautiful woman kneeling
at the foot of the cliff had arrested all
those armed troops. A dewdrop dashed
back Niagara. The Bible sets before US the
portraits Of Sarah and Rebecca, and Abishag,
Absalom's sister, and jobs daughters, and
saws: "They were fair to look upon" BY
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ment Of apparel let women make themselves
attractive. The sloven has only one mission,
and that to excite our loathing and disgust.
But alas for those who depend upon personal
charms for their happiness. Beauty is such
a subtle thing, it does not seem to depend
upon facial proportions, or upon the sparkle
of the eve, or upon the flush Of the cheek.
You sometimes find it among irregular fe +
ures. It is the soul shining through the face
that makes one beautiful. But alasl for
those who depend upon mere personal charms.
They will come to disappointment and to q
great fret There are so many different
opinions about what are personal charmsi
and then sickness, and trouble, and age, do
make such rayages. The poorest god that q
woman ever worships is her own face. Tho
saddest sight in all tho world isa woman who
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charms begin to vanish. Oh, how they try
to cover the wrinkles and hide the ravages
Of timel When time, with iron sho1 feet
steps on a face, the hoof marks remain, and
you cannot hide them. 1t is silly to try to
hide them. think the most repulsive fool
in all the world is an old foOl
Why, my friends, should you be ashamed
to be getting old2 1t is a sign-it is prima
facie evidence that you have behaved toler-
ably well or you would not have lived to thi'
time. The grandest thing, think, is eternity
and that is made up of countless years.
When the Bible would set forth the attrac-
tiveness Of Jesus Christ, it says: 'His hair
was white as snown But when the color goes
from the cheek, and the luster from the eye
and the spring from the step, and tho grace
fulness from the gait, alas! for those who
have built their time and their eternity upon
good looks. But allthe passaseo OF years can
not take out of ones face benignity, and kind.
ness, and compassion, and faith Culture
your heart and you culture your face. The