Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1889-12-05

40Q wrong. ne IeCfutLs tuet nave
hocked to your standard have been
many. but when you drop out OF the
ranks your memory will only be blot
your future worse than blank AlaS,
the dead flies ct humanity
A wise man il one who knows how to
Apply the fease that he Is possessed OF.
be ns fortunately endowed or otherwise.
A tooI Ia one who Al.spplIes tie sense
he IL seized or otherwise possessed CT
de 10 TOOL Ia proper ION TO the sense
be is endowed With. ou cAn's tell how
many mules are II barn by the sizs OF
the bzra- door, but II the building IL
cracked you can look through the crack
aud make sure OF your mules. Among
the dead flies OF folly and ioollshness
are vanity, oecsit. Irreverencs to the IN
stieutions Of God and disrespect to par
ents. The hopeless tools are those who
never fad themselves out. But other
folks do. however.
"oh, wad some power the gifte gle Us
To see ourselves as ithers see Us
We meet young lAdies In society with
lovely faces and sylph like forms. They
are Is tAir ~ Helen OF Troy. They
have every advantage that indulgent
parents can give them. They are
equipped by nature and art to be
the aoornments OF society. Man, who
10 in search OF his ideal like Japhet in
search of father. thinks he has 1t last
found this divine she. This is not
always . difficult discovery to the ear
nest seeker, since the ideal IL but .
vague and indefinite image Outlines
merely, waiting the skillful hand OF
woman, who has ingenuity to discover
his peculiar vanity, to give them . local
habitation and . name. Much that
seems perfect is double. Each face has
its two profi!es. each coin its two sides.
But let US take . peep behind the home
curtain and see her who was last even
ing the very i'm REORGANIZATION OF Area
dian simplicity and amiAbility. The
bewitching smile has faded into petu-
liant frown. The pretty truisms no
longer fall from her lips ss when sur
rounded by . throng OF admirers. The
words of disrespect that she speaks
to gentle and patient mother
would make the hair of her most
ardent admired stand upon his head
like quilts upon . porcupine. and would
cure the most desperate case of love
sickness. Lavater says: "A great
woman not imperious, . fair woman not
vain, . woman OF common talents not
Jealous. an accomplished woman not
enough and rare enough to be divided
among the tour quarters of the globe"
And he might have added that if q girl
was smothered with accom- plishments
and did not know how to treat her
mother respectfully and reverently, she
lacks that which tends to consolidate
. firm system of chAracter-that which
tends to form . friend, . companion and
. wife. Hermes must have taken the
respectful daughter ~ his ideal when
he paid such . glowing tribute to noble
womanhood: IA beautiful and chaste
woman is the perfect workmanship of
God, the true glory of the angels, the
rare miracle OF earth, and the sole won
der of the world"
And to such we say: All honor to
womanl The hand that hath made you
fair. hath made you good!
We hear young boys speak disrespect-
fully to their parents, and our fingers
itch to wiring their silly little necks for
about . minute: But when . grown up
of . gentleman, refers to his parents a.
the old man, CT the old woman, and is
ashamed of their old-iashioued ways,
then the thought at on,e occurs that it
il Q mystery how he escaped the tool
killer SO long.
Respect and reverence are forces
latent or entirely deficient in his char
scter. Ii you rub the fur OF such Q
man the wrong way, the little veneeriug
OF civilization will disappear. and you
will have the loud mouthed, intolerant
savage OF centuries ago. This is the
chap that goes to ohurch-to misbehave,
of couree He would not contribute
the one hundredth part of what he
spends for cigars to support an institu-
ton OF that character. When the con.
tribution box comes his way he will be
intent on something In the opposite di-
rection, or chip In Plugged nickle or Q
button. It's true to his giddy, disre-
spectful nature. Among the numerous
unsAvory dead flies is that OF intern.
peraace. There is time, at lekst. in
every mans lite when he is in period
of innocence and purity. Mankind il
not instantAneously corrupted. No one
without one single deviation from . So
Der and even tenor of conduct, ever
plunged into the depths of drunkard's
career. Evil is always progressive. We
decline from rigbt-not suddenly, but
step by step. An habitual drunkard is
not made In day, or . month, or .
year. He goes down the ladder by de-
csnse he 10 urged by An uncon
trollable appetite, but through 81
spirit of mere malicious mischief and
without any excuse whatever. Like the
poor moth he f1tter about until he |
gets singsd. After the shame of the
first few DRINKS has subsidized into . |
don't care feeling, the descent down the
parachute is rapid and easy.
The an "a Had n, I'D ara 70 rim az 10 slso
and sooner or later is !
lower down. The man who
uses intoxicants - . medicine is only
deluding himself. or 10 an advocate OF |
the worst kind of quAck remedies. A |
man who commences habit totally at |
variance With his own nature, and with /
40 reasonable incentive Whatever, with |
numerous examples of the general re-
'ult before him. must endure the leeiti- |
nate conclusion that he carries few
ounces o. folly to his grain of wisdom. |