The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-01

| Ter a father care and mothers tenderness,
az last to scott at their example aud deride
their influences; and on the day when you
followed them in long procession to the
tomb, to find that you ara followed by still
larger procession OF unsilol 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, il Is a good time for young wo-
man when she is in her fathers house. How
careful they are of her welfarel How watch
ful those parents of all her interastsl Seated
ut 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 he effected and one win b. missed from
one end the table, and another will be missed
| from the other ond the table, God pity that
Young woman's soul who in that dark hour,
has nothing but regret'ul recollections.
| | 60 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 dcspise or
affect to despiss, beauty in others When
God gives il 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 f,ocks and VINEYARDS.
The beautiful Abigail, the wife of Nabal,
went out to arrest him when he CAME down
from the mountains, and she succeeded.
Coming to the foot of the hill, she kne't.
David, with his army Of sworn men, came
down over the cliffs, aud when he saw her
knelling at the foot of the hill he cried 'sHalt,n
to his men. and the caves echoed it: "Halt
halt That one beautiful woman kneeling
at the foot of tho cliff had arrested all
those armed troops. A dewdrop dashed
back Niagara. The Bible sets before us the
portraits of Sarah and Rebscca, and Abishag,
| Absa!om's sister, and Jobs daughters, and
says: "They were fair to look upon" By
out door exercise, and by skillful arrange.
ment of apparel, let women make themselves
attactive. The s'oven has only one mission,
and that to excite our loathing and disgust.
But alas! for those who depend upon personal
charms for ter happiness. Beauty is such
subtle thing, it does not seem to depend
| upon facial proportions, or upon the sparkle
of the eye, or upon the flush of the cheek.
| You sometimes find it among irregular feat
nres 1t is the soul shining through the face
that makes one beautiful But, alas! for
those who depend upon mere pers onal charms
They will come to disappointment an to a
great fret. There are SO many different
opinions about what are personal charms;
and then sickness and trouble, and age do
make such ravages. The poorest god that a
woman ever worships is her own face. The
saddest sight in all the world is woman who
has built everything Oh goo looks, when the
charms begin to vanish. Oh, how they try
to cover the wrinkles and hide the ravaces
of time! When time, with iron shod feet
steps on face, the hoof marks remain, and
you cannot hide them 1t is silly to try to
hide them. think the most repulsve fool
in all the world is an cd fool.
Why, my friends, sh loud you be ashamed
to be getting old! 1t is a sight is prima
facie evidence that you have behaved toler-
ably wei or you woult not have lived to this
frN,aar Host Il.
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 snow" But when the color goas
from the cheek, and the luster from the eye,
and the spring from the step, and the grace
fu'nes' from the gait, alas! for those who
have built their time and their eternity upon
good looks. But all the passage of years can
not take out of ones face benignity and kind
ness, and compassion, ana faith. Culture
your heart AMI you culture your face The
brightest glory that ever beamed from a
woman's face is the relig on Of Jesus Christ.
In the last war POO wounded soldiers came to
Philadelphia one night and came unheralded,
and they had to eXtemporze hospital for
them, and the Christian women of my church,
and of other churches, went out that night to
take care Of the poor wounded fellows. That
night saw Christian woman go through
the wards of the hospital, her sleeves rolled
up, ready for hard work, her hair di-
sheveled in the excitement of the hour.
Her lace was plain, very plain: but
after the wounds were washed and the
new bandages were put round the splintered
limbs and the exhausted boy fell OF into his
first pleasant sleep, she put her hand OH his
brow and he started i'll his dream, and said:
"Oh, thought an angel touched mel" There
may have been no classic elegance in the
features of Mrs. Harris, vino came into the
hospital after the Seven Days awful fight,
| as she sat down by wounded drummer boy
and heard him soli.o1uize; "a ball through
my body, and my poor mother will never
again see her boy What pity it isl" And
she leaned over him and said: ''Shal bs
your mother and comfort you!" And he
looked up and said yes, I'll try to think
she's here. Please to write long letter to
her ana tell her all about it, and send her a
ltci OF my hair and comfort her But
would like to have you tell her how much
suffered-yes, would like you to do that,
| for she would feel so for me. Hold my hand
while de-" There may have been no classic
elegance in her features but all the hospitals
of Harrison's Landing and Fortress Monroe
would have agreed that she was beautiful;
and it any rough man in all that ward had
insulted her. some wounded soldier would
have leaped from his colch. on his best foot,
and struck him dead with crutch
Again, | advise you not to depend for hap
piness upon the batteries of men. 1t is a
poor compliment to your sex that so many
men feel obliged in your presence to offer I'M
meaning compliments Men capable If ele-
giant and elaborate conversation elsewhere
sometimes feel called upon at the door of the
drawlng-room to drop their common sense
and to dole out sickening batteries. They
| say things about your dress, AMI about your
| appearance, that you know, and they know,
are false. They say you are an angel;
You know you are not. Determined to tell
the truth in Office and store and shop, they
consider it honorable to lie to a woman. The
same thing that ttey told you on this side of
the drawing room three minutes ago they
said to some one on the other side of the draw
ing room. Oh, let no one trample on your
self respect The meanest thing on which
woman can build her happiness is the fatter-
les Of men.
Again. charge you not to depend for hap
piness upon the discip.eship of worldliness. I
have seen men as vain of their old fashioned
and their eccentric hat as yoa brainless fop
is proud of his dangling fooleries. Fashion
sometimes makes a reasonable demand of us,
and then we ought to yield to it. The daisies
of the field have their fashion of color and
leaf; the honeysuckles have their fashion of
ear drop, and the snowflakes flung out of the
winter heavens have their fashion of exquis-
lteness. After the summer shower the sky
weds the earth with ring of rainbow and
do not think we have right to despsa the
elegancies and fashions of the world, espe-
clally if they make reasonable demands upon
us; but the discipleshipand worship of fash
ion is death to the body and death to tho
soul / am glad the world is improving.
Look at the fashion plates of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries, and yon will find
that the world is not SO extravagapt and ex
traordinary now as it was then, and all the
marvellous things that the granddaughter
will do will never equal that done by tho
grandmother. Go still farther back. TO the
Bible times, AMI you find that in those
times fashion welded more terrible
scepter. You have only to turn 10 til III I'd
chapter of Isaiah, a portion OF the Scriptures
from which once preached to you a sermon,
to read: because the daughters of Zion are
naughty, and walk with stretched forth necks
and wanton eyes, walking AMI mincing as
they go, and mnking tinkiing with their
feet: In that day the Lord VIII take away
the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about
their feet. and their cauls, and their round
tires Ike the moon. the chains and the brace
let's, and the muff'ers, the boanets and the
head bands, and the tablets and the ear
rings, the rings, AMI the nose jewels, the
changeabe suits of apparel. aud the nantes.
and the wimp,es, and tn, cr;spiug pins, the
glasses, and the fine linen. anil thu hoo l., and
the wells" Only think of woman havn.
ALI that on, I am clad that the world is