Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-08

acquaintanceshp, will not give you the
ten.thousandth part of q grain Of solid
satisfaction. An 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:
'Oh, wish could exchange places
with that dogm
Mere social position will never give
happiness to a woman's soul. I have had
wide and continuous observation, and
tell the young women that they who
build ON mere social position their soul's
immortal happiness are building on the
sand.
Suppose that young woman expends
the brightness of her early life in this un.
struggle and omits the pres.
emit opportunity of usefulness in the home
circle; what a mistake!
So surely as the years roll around, that
home In which you now dwell will become
extinct. The parents will be gone, the
will he turned over into other
possession; you yourself will be In ether
hips, and that home which, only
q year ago, was full of congratulaticn.
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. If you did
not smooth the path Of your pa
rents toward the tomb; if you did
not make their last days bright
and happy; if you allowed your
younger brother to 60 out into
the world unhallowed by Christian and
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younger sisters of your family to come
up without feeling that there had been a
Christian example set them on your part,
there will be nothing but bitterness of
lamentation. That bitterness will be In
creased by all the surroundings Of that
home, by every char, 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 agonizing memories. Young
women, have you any thing to do in the
way Of making your fathers home hap
ply? Now is the time to attend to
it, or leave it forever u1done. Time is
flying very quickly away. Isuppose 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 it used TO
be; and they will soon be gone. The
heaviest clod that ever falls on parents
ooffin.id is the memory CT en- ungrateful
daughter. 0, make their last days bright
and beautiful. Do not act as though they
were in the way. Ask their counsel, seek
their pray ers, and, after long years have
passed and you go out to see the grave
where they sleep, you will find growing
all over tie mound something lovlier
than cypress, something sweeter than he
sweet rose, something chaster that tn 9
lily-the bright and beautiful memories
of fllial kindness performed ere the dying
hand dropped on you a benedction.
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 tina
you should have been brought up under a
fathers care and mothers tenderness
at last to scott at their example and de-
ride their influence; and OH the day
when you followed them in long process.
y
lowed by still larger procession Of un.
flial deeds done and wrong words ut.
tered. The one procession will leave its
burden in the tomb and disband; but
that longer procession Of CHASTITY mem
cries ill forever march and forever wall.
Oh, it is good time for young woman
when she is in her fathers house. How
careful they are of her welfare. How
watchful those parents of all her inter.
ests. Seated at the morning repast,
father at one end of the table, children on
either side and between, but the years
will roll on and great changes will be eff.
fected, and one will be missed from one
end of the table, and another will be
missed from the other end of the table.
God pity that young woman's soul who,
in that dark hour, has nothing but regret
full recollections.
Igo further, and advise you not to de.
pend for enjoyment upon mere personal
1t would be sheer hypocrisy,
because we may not have it ourselves, to
despise or affect to despise, beauty in
others. When God gives it he gives 1t as
a blessing and as means of usefulness.
David and his army were coming down
from the mountains to destroy Nabal and
his focks and whey ards. The beautiful
Abigail, the wife of Nabal, went out to
arrest him when he came down from the
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
haltW That one beautiful woman kneel-
ing at the foot of the cliff had arrested all
those armed troops. A dewdrop dashed
back Niagara. The Bible sets before us
the portraits Of Sarah, and Rebecca, and
Abishag, Absalom's sister, and Jobs
and says: ''They were fair to
look upon" By outdoor exercise, and by
skil'fu' arrangement of apparel, let wom-
en- make thems elves 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 subtle thing. it does not seem to de-
pend upon facial proportions, or upon
the sparkle of the eve, or upon the flush
of the cheek. You sometimes find
it among irregular features. It is
the soul shining through the facs
that makes one beautiful. But alas! for
those who depend upon mere personal
charms. They will come to disappoint.
ment and to great fret. There are 81
many different opinions about what art
personal charms; and then sickness, and
trouble, and age, do make such ravages
The poorest god that q woman ever wor.
ships is her own face. The saddest sight
in all the world is a woman who has bull
every thing on good looks, when tn,
charms begin to vanish. o, how they try
to cover the wrinkles and hide the raw
ages of time! When time, with iron shoe
feet, steps on a face, the hoof-marks re-
main. and you can not hide them. 1t Il
silly to try to hide them. I think tn