Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24

De urge, ana the Wreath in the plush
wss reptile coil, and the upholstery that
swayed In the wind was the wing of q de.
stroying angel, and the bead drops on the
pitcher were the sweat Of
EVERLASTING DESPAIR.
o., how mspy rlvalries and unhappi-
nesses among those who seek In social
life their chief happiness! It matters not
how fine you have things; there are other
people who have it finer. Taking out your
watch to tell the hour of the day, some
one will correct your timepiece by pulling
out watch more richly chased and Jew
eled. Ride in carriage thst cost you
$500, and before you get around the park
you will meet with one that cost $1,000
Have on your wall s picture by Copley,
and before night you will hear Of some
one who has picture fresh from the
studio Of Church or Bierstsdt.
All that this world can do for you In
silver, in gold, in Administer plush, in
Gobelin tapestry, in wide halls, in lordly
acquaintsnceship, will not give you the
ten thousandth part Of grain Of solid
satisfaction. The English lord, moving
in the very highest sphere, was one day
found seated with his chin on his hand
and his elbow on the window-sill, look
ing cut and saying: go, wish could
exchange places with that dogl" Mere
social position will never give happiness
to Woman's soul. 1 have had wide and
continuous observation, and 1 tell the
young women that they who build on
mere social position their souls immortal
happiness are building on the sand.
Suppose young woman expends tn
brightness of her esrly life in this unsat-
factory struggle and omits the present op-
portunitY Of usefulness in the homa cir
Gle; Whist a mistskel
So surely ss the years roll around, that
home in which you now dwell will be-
come extinct. The parents will be gone,
the properly will go into other possession,
you yourself will be in other relation
ships, and that home which, only q year
ago, was full Of congratulations, will be
exiting uished. 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. II you did not
smooth the path of your parents
TOWARD THE TOMB
u you cid not make their last
days bright and happy; II you
allowed your younger brother to go out
into the world unhallowed by Christian
and sisterly Influences; II you allowed
the younger sisters of your family to
come up without feeling that there had
been 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 mantle ornaments,
oy everything you can think of as con.
nected with that home. All these things
will rouse up agonizlIg memories. Young
women, have you anything to DO in the
wsy of making your fathers home happy?
Now is the time TO attend to it, or leave
it forever undone. Time is flying very
quickly away. suppose you notice the
wrinkles are gathering and accommodating
on those kindly faces that have SO
long looked upon you; there is
frost in the locks; the
foot Is not as firm in its step as II used to
be; and they will soon be gone. The
heaviest clod that ever falls on parents
cOtfil-lid is the memory OF an uDgrateful
daughter. o, make their last dsys bright
and beautiful. Do not act as though
they were in the way. Ask their counsel,
geek their prayers, and, after long years
have passed. and you go out to see the
grave where they sleep, you will find
growing all over the mound something
lovelier than cypress, something sweeter
than the rose, something chaster than the
lily-the bright and beautiful memories
Of flial kindness performed ere the dying
hand dropped on you benediction, and
yor 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
the world, rather than that you should
have been brought under q father'e
care and mothers tenderness,
at last to fcOff at their example and de-
ride their influence; and on the day when
you followed them in long procession to
he tomb to find that you are followed by
q still larger procession of unfllial deeds
done and wrong words uttered. The one
procession Will leave its burden in the
tomb and disbsnd, but that longer pro-
cession OF CHASTITY memories will forever
march and forever wall. Oh, it is good
time for
A YOUNG WOMAN
when she is in her fsther's house. How
careful they are Of her welfare. How
those parents, Of all her inter-
ests. Seated at the morning repsst,
father at one end the table, children on
either sice and between, but the years
will roll on and great changes will be
effected and one will be missed from one
end the tab and another will be missed
from the other end the table. God pity
that young woman's soul who, in that
dark hour, has nothing but regretful rec
go further and advise you not to de-
pend for enjoyment upon mere personal
attractions. It would be sheer hypocrisy,
because we may not have 1t ourselves, to
despise, or effect to despise, beauty In
others. Whtn God gives it, He gives 1t
as blessing and as means OF useful
ness. David and his army were coming
down from the mountains to destroy
Nabal and his h9cks and vineyards. The
beaulful Abigsi, the wife Of Eabal, went
out to arrest him when he came down
from the mountsius, and she succeeded
Coming to the foot of the hill, she knelt.
David with his army of sworn men came
down over the clifs, and when he saw her
kneeliog at the foot OF the hill he cried,
"H.ltI" to his men, snd the caves echoed
il: Haiti hslt!' That one beautiful
gomNn kneelipg ST. the foot of the cliff
had arrested sll those armed troops. A
dew drop dashed back Niagara. The
Bible sets bef1re US the
portraits OF Sarah aud Rebeccs, ana
Absslom's sister, and JOBS
and says: "They were fsir to
look upon" BY outdoor exercise, and
by skilful arrangement of apparel, let
women make themselves attractive. The