The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-23


and Rebecca, and Abishag, Absalom's
sister, and Jobs daughters, and says:
.sThey were fair to look upon By
out door exercise and by skillful ar
rangement 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 proportions, or upon the sparkle of
the eye, or upon the flush of the cheek.
You sometimes 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 dis
appointment and to great fret. There
are SO many different opinions about
what are personal charms; and then sick
ness, and trouble, and age, do make such
ravages. The poorest god that woman
ever worships is her own face. The sad
dest sight in all the world is a woman
who has buils everything on good looks,
when the charms begin to vanish. Oh,
how they try to cover the wrinkles and
hide the ravages Of time! When Time,
with iron shod feet, steps on face, the
hoof marks remain, and you cannot hide
them. It is silly to try to hide them. /
thirk the must repulsive fool in all the
world is an old fool!
Why, my friends, should you be
ashamed to be getting old7 It is sign
it is prima facie evidence that you have
behaved tolerably well OF you would not
have lived to this time. The grandest
thing, think, Is eternity, and that is
made up of countless years. When the
Bible would set forth the attractiveness
of Jesus Christ, it says: "His hair was
white as snow" But when the color
goes from the cheek, and the luster from
the eye, and the spring from the step,
and the gracefulness from the gait,
alas! for those who have built their
time and their eternity upon
good looks. But all the passage
of years cannot take out of ones face
benignity and kindness, and compassion
and faith. Culture your heart and you
culture your face. The brightest glory
that ever beamed from a womans face is
the religion of Jesus Christ. In the last
war two hundred wounded soldiers came
to Philadelphia one night, and came un-
heralded, and they had to extemporize @
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 I saw a Christian woman &c
through the wards of the hospital, heI
sleeves rolled up ready for hard work,
her hair disheveled In the excitement
of the hour. Her face 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 off into his first
pleasant sleep, she put her hand on his
brow, and he started in his dream and
said: "Oh, thought an angel touched
mer' There may have been no classic
elegance in the features of Mrs. Harris
who came into the hospital after thf
Seven Days awful fight, as she Sal
down by wounded drummer boy anG
heard him soliloquize: ga ball through
my body, and my poor mother will nevel
again see her boy. What a pity it is 7
And she leaned over him and said
''Shan I be your mother and comfort
your" And he looked up and said
eyes, I'll try to think she's here. Please
to write long letter to her and
tell her all about it, and send
her lock Of my hair and comfort her
But would like to have you tell her how
much suffered-yes, would like 20,
to do that, for she would feel so for me
Hold my hand while die" There may
have been no classic elegance in he
features, but all the hospitals of Harri
sons Landing and Fortress Monroe woule
have agreed that she was beautiful; ant
if any rough man in all that ward hat
insulted her, some wounded soldiel
would have leaped from his couch on hi
best foot and struck him dead with {
| crutch.
Again; advise you not to depend fo
happiness upon the batteries of men, I
is poor compliment to your sex that S,
many men feel obliged in your presenc
to offer unmeaning compliments. Mel
capable of elegant and elaborate CONVEX
sation elsewhere, sometimes feel callet
upon at the door Of the drawing room t.
drop their common sense and to dole ou
sickening batteries. They say thing
pearance, that you know, and they know
are false. They say you are an angel
You know you are not. Determined T.
tell the truth in Office, and store, an,
shop, they consider it honorable to lie t
woman. The same thing that the,
told you on this side of the drawing
room three minutes ago they said to som
one on the other side of the drawin
room. Oh, let no one trample on you
self respect. The meanest thing o.
which a woman can build her happines
is the batteries of men.
! Again: charge you not to depend fo
happiness upon the discipleship of world
illness. have seen men as vain of thei
oldfashioned and their eccentric hat q
your brainless fop Is proud Of his dang
ling fooleries. Fashion sometimes make
reasonable demand of us, and then w
ought to yield to it. The daisies of tn
field have their fashion of color and leaf
the honeysuckles have their fashion G
ear drop; and the snowfakes flung on
of the winter heavens have their fashio
Of exquisiteness. After the summe
shower the sky weds the earth with rim
of rainbow. And / do not nix W
have right to despise the elega- cies an
fashions of this world, especially if the
make reasonable demands upon us; bu
the discipleship and worship Of fashion
death to the body, and death TO the sou
am glad the wsrld is improving. Loo
at the fashion plates Of the Ssventeent
and Eighteenth centuries, and you wi
find that the world is not 90 extravagar
and extraordinary now as it was ther
and all the marvellous things thu
the granddaughter will do viii neye
equal that done by the grandmother, G
still farther back, to the Bible times, an
you find that in those times fashio
welded more terrible scepter. 70
have only to turn to the third chaptk
of Isaiah, portion Of the Scripture
from which / once preached to you
sermon, to read: Because the daugl
ters of Zion are naughty, and walk wit
, stretched forth necks and wanton eye
walking and mincing as they go, an
making tinkling with their feet:
that day the Lord will take away Il
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