San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-16
WOMAN AND HOME.
STOP IN LIFE'S HURRY AND THINK
ABOUT THE LAST TIME"
Boys Should Learn to Endure Pain-Care
Of the Female Figure-Girls for House
work-woman's InflueDce-Food for In
fants-Household Hints, Items, Etc.


Did you ever stop, IN the midst Of lifes
tumultuous hurry and furry, and think to
yourself about the ''last time" that is on its
way TO you and to me? There will be last
time for the careless good-by thrown to wife
and children as you hurry to the morning
train. There win be a last time when your
step will board the car and your form will
mingle with the crowd of those who so about
business when the day is new. There will be
a last time to speak kind word instead OF
a cross one, to give a smile for frown.
There will be a last time to mingle in the
city's busy stream Of life, to mount your Of
fee stairs and sit at your desk. There will
be a last time to seize the chance of honesty
and of uprightnesS There will be last
time to lunch, last time to read the daily
papers, last time to watch the sun 60 down.
There will be last time to spend happy
evening at home, and bestow your company,
speech and manners upon the members of
your own family circle. There will be a last
time to say good night" to turn out the
lamps and WOO the tickle goddess of slumber.
There will be last midnight and last new
dawning of a last day on earth.
Knowing all this to be so true, how shall
we set about to keep the vigil of what may
be the last hour we have to spendl Take the
children first. If an angel from heaven
came suddenly down and whispered in your
ear, 1.-THE last day has come. You have but
twelve more hours to live" how, think you,
would you set about TO improve that timed
Would you be anxious about the practice
hours, the dress, the personal appearance of
the little ones you would soon have to leave2
Would you stop to train them how to dance,
how to hold their hands in walking, how to
pose or posturei Would you stop TO think of
masters to teach them 20 play, to paint, or
to charm the shallow world with any gift of
alluring grace2 Would you care whether
their dress was stylfshly cut and made, or
their garments freshly laundrbed and daintily
trlmmedi Would you give second thought
to any gift this world has in it's power TO
bestow, whether OF wealth or beauty
or social honori think not Fac
ing that last time 10 be together,
think your mind would turn 30 sweeter,
purer things, and you would say something
to this effect. "The time has come, my little
ones, when must go and leave You. You
will be alone in the world tomorrow, 80 far
as mother love goes, and pray you heed my
last words. Be pure In all things; despise
evil oompanionships and evil conversation
and evil books Keep your heart like q spot
less flower, however you keep your outward
garb. Carry back your soul to God unde-
fled as the June evening carries upon its
bosom the mornings rose.
''Be true always You may be poor and
have to win your bread, but keep your lips
from speaking untruths and your heart from
brooding deceit. Honest speech may not
win you many friends, bat such as ii does
win for you will be worth the keeping. Re
member, in friendship as in precious stones,
it is not the quantity but the quality which
tells.
Keep your heart kind Be tender tc
everything that God lets live. The child that
will needlessly torture a fly will make cruel
man or woman. You may not have gold to
give, but God has given you purse to draw
from, the aims of which, dispensed among
the children of earth, turn sorrow into sun
shine and tears into smiles. Thoughtful
words and deeds of helpfulness are better
than dollars in our pockets TO make the world
run smooth.
BE loyal to principles, friends and God
The man who. forgsts friend in time ofueed