Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-09


who think the town is terribly dull when
there is an occasional lull in the receptions
and parties. Restless and discontinued at
home, but winsome and sweet with their
company in the parlor-who sings at the
top of her sweet voice, who will care Tor
mother now while that same dear mother
is doing the washing in the basement
These are they who never read or sew
more than twenty minutes at time, ana
spend the restless intervals in drumming
on the piano Oh wearing out the carpet in
front of the looking glass.
These are they who when they under
take to develop their ponderous minds
through course of reading generally Pc
ruse some thrilling story book or the still
more thrilling Saturday Night or the Neto
York Weekly. Instead of weeping over the
sorrows and burdens which exist about
them in real life and nobly carrying aid
and comfort to those in want and atf1lcuon,
they will cry and yawn over the thrilling
adventures of some poor but beautiful
heroine who is rescued from the pirates or
saved from shipwreck to be put through
long list of struggles so that she may appear
to greater advantage when she finally mar
ries lord or inherits a great fortune IN
Holland or Denmark. Many of those who
have never read Lubkes History of Art
on neuralgia by sobbing over the Saturday
Night or the Netg York Weekly, and are as
wanting in a knowledge of the higher range
of literature as the laxative young lady
who said she had never read Romeo, but
thought she had read Juliet Reading is
the source of great mental growth and ex-
altation, but it will depend entirely upon
the sort of books we choose from.
Then there are those who do not Guilt
vate those blessed graees of heart and
disposition, friendliness and sociability.
They forget that society will be pretty much
what we make it; bright and happy, or IN
social and unattractiye. There are natures
and we all have met them-who seem to
scatter irritability, unkindness and discord,
and we all feel better satisfied when we
note their absence, for their unsocial and
unfriendly disposition can tinge the mood
of an evening company, Just as a drop of
acid will sour whole pitcher of water
Then there are others who go about like
sunbeams, scattering light in their path
way. oh, the blessedness of kind and
friendly disposition-the highest proof of a
true and noble Christian spirit Finally,
while we believe that the highest phase
of developed womanhood can best be OBJ
tanned through happy marriage, do we
not lay too much stress upon the, to some,
marry p Is an unmarried woman's life
failure? No thousand times mol 1 tell
you, my friends, the world were badly off
without the unselfish lives of its thousands
of happy unmarried women.
who is it that cheers and comforts the
declining years Of the aged father and
mother and smooths with gentlest hand
| their pathway to the grave? 1t is most
often the daughter who has never married
Who is it that comes at the sudden call of
sickness like an angel to the home and
takes the household cares off many Shout
ders, and works and tolls for children not
her own, when the mother is laid upon
bed of suffering? 1t is generally the
maiden aunt or sister. Many times an IN
married life has been chosen, despite OPP
portunities to wed, because in the unsel6sh
heroism of her heart in the old home and
| with an aged parent she was most needed
Perhaps the highest reach in womanly per-
lection can be found in consecrated Christ
ian motherhood, but have seen such tow
ering nobility of life among those who
choose devotion and duty to personal hap
piness, that there seems to be no greater
hight of unselfish heroism. What blessed
work is being done by those who toll in
many home and in many a school-room
by those who are not only the comfort but
even the sole support of their aged and
dependent parents
Again let me say-never marry man
to reform him; it is far more likely such a
one will drag you down to his level than
that you will lift him very far upward-it
is too much like the fisherman who is
angling for ordinary fish but gets shark
on his ine-he is more likely to be carried
to sea himself than to get his fish landed
the big pull is at the other end of the line.
And never marry man who drinks to ex-
cess for the risk is too great to warrant the
experiment. And never marry thorough
society man-one who, like Samson of old,
has slain his thousands. and often with the
same weapon for the honeymoon will soon
dwindle down to its half and quarter and
then go out in total darkness, for habit in
such one becomes second nature, for the
ruling passion of such life is not indiyid-
ual devotion but general admiration.
In conclusion, lei US in ali things be
noble, patient and philosophical. If life
brings US that which we desire, let US be
glad and thankful, but if we do not realize
our desires, let us believe that we are best
without them. If God has given you q
bright, happy disposition, be thankful and
cultivate it, for joy and happiness is what
the world stands most in need of. The
world is too full of sorrow; it needs cheer
1t is too full of dependency; it needs
hope. 1t is too full of cowardice; it need;
, courage. 1t wants singing Christianity
They who carry long faces dishonor the
Divine Father; the one who goes abou
, gloomy and detected misinterprets to Others
! the religion of Jesus. Let the influence o.
/ your lives fill some part of this only toe
, weary and burdened world with joy ant
gladness, so that finally the Lord will say
! of you as he did of Mary of old: Sh
| hath done what she couldp"