Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-07
A CHAT WITH THE GIRLS.
Building the white Temple They Are t,
Inhabit Later ON.

Building the White Temple They Are to
Inhabit Later ON.
Girls. come over here TO this cozv corner
and listen to me while. Come, every one
of you-bright eyed Susan, bonny Mary,
fairy Lillian gentle Annie-come and let me
tell you something 1t may be well for you to
know. That's right, dears, draw the por-
there's cozily, so that we shan't disturb other
"Householders
/ don't suppose you have had time in your
young lives to think, as yet, very seriously;
but you've been poisoning so beautifully in
this heyday of your youth that we haven't
had the heart to bring ono serious look upon
the faces of our lovely human flowers. But,
my denrs-alaclS day life isn't going to
stay quite so full of sunshine and moonlight
and dew as it has been hitherto-therc will
be few clouds to pass between you and the
golden luminary; and more than once the
dew will forget to place its COOL moisture on
your thirsty lips. And for this | wish to pre-
pare YOU.
First of all, that these perverse trihes may
not overwhem you, let it be your pride and
ambition to develop within yourselves true
womanhood; or, in other words, be true to
the womanly instinct that will come to you
like soft whispers Of some guardian angel, if
At this very moment you are unconscious
ly building for yourselves the white temple
you are to inhabit later on. Examine care
fully each block before you put il in position
cast out the discolored, the unworthy, the
impure, the false, using only that material
that is perfect and pure.
Does this block seem to shine with a pc
culiar radiance? Turn it all about, hold it IN
/ another hght-ah. you see its lIISur was bat
borrowed, and it clumbleS at your touch!
Does the salneness Of tone make TINS one un-
attractive to your eyesl Place it i'll position
see, it fits into the place exactly; and note
the crystal clearncSs of its purity!
Girls, the foundation of this temple is to be
laid at home-wherc those who love you can
assist in the laying Of the corner stone. The
work begins erc-rlght in the heart of
home. Your leisure hours are full of golden
possibilities-build fast while yet You claim
them; for il is not the hours it takes to finish
your ediice, but the manner in which You
build that is to be considered. In this work
time counts for little; and the terape Of one
may be finished to the very altar before, in
the structure Of another, the keystone is
placed in the arch.
Each act that brings a smile Of joy to a
loving mothers face; each effort of yours
. '
fondly-these go 10 form blocks of beauty
Others are made 10y kind words and amlable
endeavors to help younger brother or sister
over the little hindranccs that, to their child
ish eyes, look 50 formidable Sympathy with
the world of suffering causes your spiritual
| eGilice t. grow with wondrous celebrity, and
| the making Of purc aud noble sentiments of
| others Your own, lends an establishment 10
the masonry.
Shun the society that threatens the deli
cately clean cut edges of your building ma
| tcrlal. Turn reciuse, rather, young as you
| arc, and live with the pure and lofty natures
met in books. Not the dogmatic, the arti-
| fciaiy pious, the unnaturally st;lll. but the
cheerful, jolly, winsome, free and humanity
good heroes and heroines our sensible modern
writers have felicitously placed in the inches
of ancient, worn out models, that were prim
and cold, and conventional, and impossibly
perfect
Above all cultivate the Christian graceS
Try To see the good in ali things. and believe
that evil is but misdrected good, and lei
your heart be filed with pity for the way
ward that walk in darkness.
EscheW grumbling and railing at fate; sc
long as you do battle with her. just so long
will she show you countenance repulsiv,
and severe, But hold out your hands to hel
in welcome, offer her bravely the best II
your possession, shut your eyes TO the unde
sirableness of the thing she brings you, and
if | haven't learned the wrong lesson, sh,
will turn toward you side robed in radiant
garments, her smile will reflect your own
the gift she has brought you change with tn,
magic Of your touch and become a thin(
pre- .i'g- ard desirable.
Oh, girls, believe me, for | know her we'll
Mrs. sixty in Detroit Free Press Household