The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-07-14

Children should be taught as early a.
possible the working of the law of conse
quences. Who breaks pays. DO such ant
such thing, and a certain cons esuence
must follow This is the way in which VIC
children of a larger growth recognize thai
God rules His universe; and tho earlier We
can point it out the better. IL is far more
effectual, because more reasonable than the
ordinary arbitrary teaching of what is right
and what is wrong.
The little eddies of wind that set the
dust in commotion are precursors of a
thunderstorm in hot weather, and of a
hot wind always; so quarr6ls often precede
laundering time where two high-tem.
pered persons are concerned.
The capacity for happiness, like every
other, needs continual exercise for its
growth and deVelopement. If it is con-
tinually checked and postponed, it will
wither away.
Coarse kindness is, at least, better than
coarse anger; and in all private quarrels
the duller nature is triumphant by reason
of its inherent dullness.
| The good man who is reflective will
find that, as his views on various points
change with increasing knowledge, his
standard of action changes also. Some
things which he once regarded with the ut
most leniency, he now looks upon as grave
wrongs, and as fast as he discovers the best
path in any direction, it becomes for him
the path of duty.
You fight fire with fire, but poverty
with industry.
Hear one man before you answer
hear several before you decide.
Every young person who contemplates
matrimony should do so with pay-rent-al
solicitude.
The young man with slender salary
should choose for his bride young woman
of small waste.
The best characters have mixture of
inhrmities, and the worst have some re-
deeming virtues.
The man who meyer made a mistake
in his life is deaf, dumb blind and still un-
married.
The fower called bachelors button is
so called because it is always coming off
and meyer gets sewed on.
| -Mstives are better than actions. Men
; drift into crime. OF evil they do more
than they contemplate, and of good they
contemplate, more than they do.
SO long as thou art ignorant, be not
ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the great
est of all infirmities; and when justified.
| the chiefest of all folies.
| "A railroad conductor says he can al
ways tell what topic is uppermost in the
public mind by listening to the talk of the
passengers as he goes through the cars.
The innocence of childhood consists
not in recititude of inclination, but in in
capacity for the commission of eYil. The
yivacity of children is always charming,
because it is always sincere. A grave
child is a rose. without fragrance.
Love is the most easy and agreeable,
and gratitude the most humiliating affect
ion of the mind; we never reflect on the
man we loYe without exulting in our
choice, while he who has bound us to him
by benefits alone, rises to our ideas as a
person to whom we have in some measure
forfeited o,rr freedom.
| 1t is one of the problems of life how to
preserve the earlier spirit of trust ard hope
amid the knowledge and wisdom born OF
mature experience. And it is because this
problem is too hard for many that they be-
| gin in middle life to degenerate in charac-
ter.
There always comes some smooth
running to every skein before it is all
done. You mustn't try to see through the
whole skeen OF to straighten it all out into
a single thred before you begin to wind
that makes snarl always. There is al
ways an end, and that is what you have
got to take hold of.
Kind looks kind words, kind acts, and
warm hand-shake s-these are secondary
means OF grace when men are in trouble
and are fighting their unseen battles.
Let not any young woman encorage
the idea that love will prove all in all to in
sure happiness in married life. 1t is but
one of the adjuncts. And she win act
wisely who, before bestowing her hand ''foI
better for worse" looks to secure addi-
tional reasonable guaratces for connubial
bliss.
We say thousand good things and
get ne credit for 1t, but word that is dis
pleasing brings us all kinds OF reproaches.
People do not learn how To set one thing
oyer against another and thus strike an
honest balance; they must see all as in
agreement with their beliefs and proposes
ions.
TO appreciate difficulty is an inn
portsnt step toward overcoming it; and
that 10 far mora hopeful condition OF
mind which admits the duty and fathoms
the di0culty than that which rushes in
Hnprsparea and unaware of the need Of
preparation.
We may teach rules Of right conduct,
and explain clearly their reasons and
foundations; put unless we can stimulate
the moral sense of child or a man to vol.
untary exercise, we cannot hope to form OIL
reform character.
Man isnany-sided and one Of the best
proofs Of his advancement is his ability tc
asvolop each side harmonieusly, SUFFERING
zone to gov out of proportion and none
10 wither from neglect.
"A physician says that man is shorter
during the day than night. That is prob
} ably because his wife picks hiI pockets in
the morning.
If burnt child drsaes the We, why
does person Tho has besn singsd =
Cupid'S torch so eiten have a lingering re-
gard for abe old aamSs