The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-20

lne park you VIII meet Wltn one lllaU cost
two thousand dollars. Have ON your wall IA
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 Gobe-
lin tapestry, in wide halls, in lordly ac-
quaintanceship, will not give you the ten
thousandth part of grain of solid satSfac-
ton. 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, looking out and saying:
80, wish l could exchange places with
that dogm Mere social position will never
give happiness to woman's soul. have
had wide and continuous observation, and |
tell the young women that they who build
on mere social position their souls immortal
happiness are building on the sand
Suppose that young woman exponds the
brightness of her early life in this unsatis-
factory struggle and omits tho present op-
portunity 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
extinct The parents will be gone, the prop
erty will go into other possession, you your
self will be III 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. twill
be too late to correct mistakes. Ii you did
not smooth the path of your parents to
ward the tomb; if you did not make their
last days bright and happy if you
allowed your younger brother to go out into
the world, unhalowed by Christian and Sis
terly influences; if you allowed the younger
sisters of your family to come up without
feeling that there had been Christian eX-
ample set them on your part, there will be
nothing but bitterness of lamentatlon. That
bitterness will be increased by all the sur
roundings of that home; by every chair, by
every picture, by the Old time mantelo orna-
ments, by everything you can think Of as
connected with that home. All these things
viii rouse up agonizing memories. Young
women, have you anything to do in the way
of making your fathers home happy. Now
is the time to attend to it, or leave it for
ever undone. Time is flying very quickly
away. l suppose you notice the wrinkles
are gathering and accumulating on those
kindly faces that have 50 long looked upon
you; there is frost in the locks; the foot is
not as firm In its step as ii used to he !:
and they will soon be gone. The heaviest
clOd that ever falls on a parents cotfin-lid
is the memory of an ungrateful daughter
o. make their last days bright and beauti-
full Do not act as though they were in the
way. Ask their counsel, seek 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 filiai kindness performed ere
tho a Wing hand HrOnnnd on n hannIia
ton, 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 the
world, rather than that you should have
been brought up under fathers
care and a mothers tenderness,
at last to scoff 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 "a
still larger procession of unfilial deeds done
and wrong words uttered. The one process
sion will leave its burden in the tomb and
disband; but that longer procession of
CHASTITY memories will forever march and
forever wall o, it is good time for a
young woman when she is in her fathers
house. How careful they are of her well
fare How watchful those parents of all
past, 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, in that dark
hour, has nothing but regretful recol-
lectlons
go further, and advise you not to de-
pend for enjoyment upon mere personal at
fractions. 1t would be sheer hypocrisy, be-
cause we may not have it ourselves to
despise or affect to despse, beauty in
others. When God gives it He gives it as
blessing and as means Of usefulness
David and his army were coming down
from the mountains to destroy Nabal and
his flocks and vineyards. The beautiful
Abigail, the wife of Nabal, went out to ar
rest him when he came down from the noun
tains, 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, "Halt," to his men,
and the caves echoed it: Halt! halt!n
That one beautiful woman kneeling at the
foot of the cliff had arrested all those
armed troops. A dew-drop dashed back
Niagara. The Bible sets before us the
portraits of Sarah and Rebecca, and
Abishag, Absalom's sister, and Jobs daugh-
ters, and says: ''They were fair to look
upon" BY outdoor exercise, and by skill
full arrangement 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 pro
portions, or upon the sparkle of the eye, or
upon the flush of the cheek You some
times find it among irregular features
1t is the soul shining through
the face that makes one beautiful. But alas
for those who depend upon mere personal
charms. They will come to disappointment
and to great fret There are 50 many diff
ferent opinions about what are personal
charms; and then sickness, and trouble, and
age do make such ravages. The poorest
God that woman ever woIships is her own
face The saddest sight in all the world is
a woman who has built everything on good
looks, when the charms begin to vanish, O,
how they try to cover the wrinkles and
hide the ravages of time! When Time, with
iron-shod feet, steps on a face, tho 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 oldl 1t is a sign-it is prima
facie evidence that you have behaved toll
erably well or you would not have lived b
this time. The grandost thing, think is
eternity, and that Is made up Of countless
years. When the Bible would set forth the