Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-20

eight hundred dollars, ana before y0u gel
around the park you will meet with one
that cost two thousand dollars. Have on
your wall picture by Copley, and before
night you will hear of some one who has q
picture fresh from the studio Of Church OF
Bierstadt.
all that this world can do for you in
silver, in gold, in Administer plush, in
Gobelin topestry, in wide halls, in lordly
acquaintanceship, will not give you the
en-thousandth part Of grain OF solid sat.
isfaction. 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: 30, I wish / could exchange
places with that dog !" .
MERE SOCIAL POSITION
will never give happiness to womap's
soul. I have had wide and continuous
observation, and i tell the young women
that they who build ON mere social posi-
tion their soups immortal happiness are
building on the sand.
Suppose that young woman expends
the brightness of her early life in this un-
satisfactory struggle and omits the present
opportunity of usefulnd IS in the home eli
Gle: what mistake!
--rs,s surely as the years roll around, that
home in which you now dwell will become
extinct. The parents will be gone; the
property will 20 into other possession, you
yourself will be in 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 ne
elected to do in the way of making home
happy. 1t will be too late to correct
mistakes. Ifyou did not smooth the path
of your parents toward the tomb;
if you did not make their last
days bright and happy; if you
allowed your younger brother to 90 ont in.
to the world, unhallowed by Christian and
sisterly Influences; if you allowed the
younger sisters of your family to come up
without feeling that there had been a
Christian example set them cn your part,
there will be nothing but bitterness OF
That bitterness will be in
creased by all the surroundings Of that
home; by every chair, by every picture, by
the old.time mantel ornaments, by every
thing you can think of as connected with
that home. All these things will rouse up
az nizing memories. Young women, hays
you anything to do in the way OF making
your fathers home happy Now is the
time to attend to it, OF leave it forever uI-
done. Time is fiyiDg very quickly away.
suppose you notice the wrinkles are gath
ering and accumulating 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 it used to be; and they
will soon be gone The heaviest clod that
ever falls on parents Coffiu-hd is the
memory OF
AN UNGRATEFuL DAUGHTER.
o, make their last days bright and
beautiful. Do not act as though they
were in the way. Ask their counsel, seek
their prayers, and, after lorg years have
passed, and you 60 out to see the grave
where they sleep, you will find growing
all over the mound something lovelieI
than cypress, something sweeter than the
rose, something chaster than the lily
the bright and beautiful memories Of
filial kindness performed ere the dying
hand dropped on you benediction, 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 mothers tenderness,
at last to scoff at their example and de-
ride their influence; and On the day when
YOU followed them in long procession to
the tomb, to find that you are followed by
still larger procession Of un6lial deeds
done and wrong words uttered. The one
procession will leave its burden in the
tomb and disband; but that longer pro-
cession of ghastly memories will for ever
march and for ever wall. q, it Is good
time for young woman when she Is in
her fathers house. How careful they are
of her welfare. How watchf1l those pa
rents of all her interests. Seated at the
morning repast, father at ona end of the
table. children on either side and between,
but the years will roll on, ard great
changes will be effected, and one will be
missed from one end the table, and an
other 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 recollections,
Ipo further, and advise you not to de-
pend for enjoyment upon
MERE PERSONAL ATTRACTIONS.
tt would be shere hypocrisy, because we
may not have it ourselves, to despise, or
affect to despise, beauty in others. When
God gives it, He gives it ss blessing and
as means of usefulness. David and his
army were coming down from the noun.
tains to destroy Nabal and his aocks 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 knelt. David with his army
of sworn men camc 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 ~
That one beautiful woman kneeling at the
foot of the cliff bad arrested all those
armed troops. A dew-irop dashed back
Niagara. The Bible sets before US the
portraits of Sarah and Rebecca, and
Abishag, Absalom's sister, and Jobs
daughters, and says: ''They were fair to
look upon" By out. door exercise, and by
skillfui arrangement Of apparel, lot women
make themselves attractive. The sloven
has only one mission, and that to excite
our loathing and disgust. But alas! for
those W 10 depend upon personal charms
for their happiness. Beauty is such a sub
tie thing, il does not seem to depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle OF
the eve, or upon the flush Of the check.
You sometimes find it among irregular
features. 1t is the soul shining through
the face that makes one beautiful But
alasl for those who depend upon mere
personal charms. They will come to dis
appointment and to 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 woman ever wor'
ships is
HER OWN FACE.
The saddest sight in all the world Ia q
woman who has huilt everything on 1od
looks " hon the charms begin 10 vanish.