Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1889-08-15
CHOOSING A HUSBAND.
& Tale Which Shows That Al
That Glitters Is Not Gold

Two offers al oncel You are truly fav.
ored maiden, Rose" said Annette Lewis %
her young friend. Rose Liitou, In a gay tone
IT IS husband or no husband with most VI
Us; blt you have choice between two"
And happy shall l DO II | have the wis
dom 10 choose rightly was the reply o.
Rose.
II il were my ease, | do not think
should have much difficulty IN making
choice"
Don't you'll Suppose then you give ms
the benefit OF your preference
..Oh, no, not for the worldi' replied An
net,e, laughing. 81 II afraid you might be
jealous Of me afterward.
Never fear. | am not Of a jealous dis
position"
'.No, | won I commit myself Ia regard q
YOUR lovers But If they were mine / would
soon le. 1t be known where my preference
lay"
Then you won't assist me in coming 70
decision Surely am entitled 70 tbs actof
friendship"
II you put it upon that ground, Rose,
DO not sec how can refuse
Il do put it upon that ground, Annette.
And now, ask you, as friend, - give me
your opinion of the two young men, James
Hambleton and Marcus Gray, who have
seen such wonderful attractions in my
humble self as 10 become suitors for my
hand at the same time
Decidedly, then. Rose, should prefer
Marcus Gray"
There is about him. certainly, Annette.
muck 10 attract a maiden's eve, and 10 cap
tiyate her heart; but 1t has occurred TO me
that the most ghttering surface does not
always indicate the purest gold beneath. /
remember, once, to have seen massive
chain, wrought from pure ounces, placed
beside another that was far inferior IN quail
ity, but with 4 surface Of ten times richer
hue. Had not been told the difference, l
should have chosen the latter as in every
way more valuable. But when it was eX-
planned that one bore the hue of genuine
gold. while the other had been colored by
process known 10 jewelers., was struck
with the lesson 1t taught"
what lesson, ROse!'
"That the richest substance has not
always the most giittering exterior. That
real worth, satisfied with the CONSCIOUSNESS
of interior soundncss Of principle, assumes
few imposing exterior aspects and forms. y
"And that rule you apply TO these two
young men"
BY that rule wish to be guided, in some
degree, in my choice, Annette. L wish 10
keep my mind SO balanced that it may not
be sv-ayed from a sound discrimination by
any thing of imposing exterior
"But IS not the exterior-that which
meets the eye-all we can Judge from' Is
not the exterior true expression OF what
is wltninin
'sNot by any means, Annette. / grant
that it should be, but IL IS not LOOK at the
fact have Just named respecting the gold
chain"
! But they were inanimate substances.
| They were not faces, where thoughts, feel
| ings and principles find expression"
ssDo You suppose, Annette, that bad gold
would ever have been colored so a. &c lock
even more beautiful than that which is
genuine il there had not been men who as
sumed exterior graces and virtues that
were not in their mindi No; the very fact
you adduce strengthens M position. The
/ time was, in the earlier aud purer ages
I the golden ages-of the worlds existence,
l when the cOuntenance was the true index
I 20 the mind Then it was q wel-tuned u
strument, and the mind within a snAiul
/ PLAYER, 10 whose touch every muscle and
chord aud minute fiber gave answering
melody That time has passed. Men now
school their faces TO deception. IT - an art
4 which nearly all practice-myse and your
self TOO often. We study 10 appear what
we are not. Look at some men whom we
/ meet every day; with faces whose calm
/ moss. | should rather say rigdity, give no
evidence that single emotion ever crossed
the yvaveless ocean Of their minds. But II
is not so Tho mind within Is active with
thought and feeling. But The instrument
= 81. ,,.r, Enc &c
or bears only relaxed or broken chords.
~You have strange, visionary way 81
taikrg. sometimes, Rose. " replied Annette
as her friend ceased speaking. "All that
uav do for your German transceudeutai
ists. or whatever you call taem. bat Il
won Q do when you come down 70 the mat
ter-oT-fact business OF life
To me II seems eminently practical
p-rrcirio. Annette We must aCt In ali im
p9rfaut matters in life with iast ciscrim
nation. and how can we truly discrimnats
r. we are not well versed In those polIo
T souhieal principles upon which, and o. +
uran which. right determinations can o-
T made
a must confess. Rose. replied her Toani
freud. -tnat d. not So much bearing 'la
a1ta.s las upon The matter under Discus
sion. o-. Al least. can not sec The truth G.
it- application. God never sssumesa leader
exterior.
aWell"
owe noed not BE very eminent phioso
piers e. d-stlre liah GRE from The other
ego. - course not.
EVERY well Here is Msrcus Gray. WIZ
genuine golden exterior. ard Jane
Harta-ar. win baden one.
u s8r-t grant tlaf position. A1uefte. 7