The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-06-19
SACRIFICE IN. UNIFORM.
The Kind OF Devotion That Is Always Read
For Dress Parade.

The Kind OF Devotion That Is Always Ready
For Dress Parade.
There is kind of sacrifice that is al
ways ready for dress parade; that even
amid the rush Of the crowd counts its
beads and crosses itself, always conscious
of the contrast between its act and the
pursuits Of themajority. OF all places
where this sacrifice in uniform is found,
1t is most unpleasant perhaps, in the
home, for there it takes the. liberty to
try experiments and to pose, and even
to use tyranny in carrying out it's pur-
pose 1t always works systemat ically,
and has its hoard of maxims that are
ready to be fred into the camp of ease
at any minute. But the sentence
that it uses oftenest and most effective
ly Isl: 81 feel it to be my duty. The
do-as-you-please brother is always ST.
lenced by this He may whisper under
his breath something that he has not
the courage to offer to the hearing of
any woman, but he only whistles to con-
ceal his annoyance, while he devoutly
wishes that the self-appointed mentor
would take vacation from her saintli-
moss, and step down to the level where
humanity appears in citizens dress.
He encounters some pretty worldling,
whose frivolity has many times brought
forth one of the home criticisms, and
the butterfly, with possibly an ignoble
purpose lurking behind .-the- sweet
speech, is SO patient with his foibles,
and SO ready to be helpful without the
least fuss, and with nothingof the mar
tyr air of sacrifice, that It is quite nat
uraf for him to regard her through
simple contrast as something neces-
sary to his happiness. Sometimes
he wishes she were his sister,
and It does really seem pity that
young men In his case, with one por-
tentous sister, have not another of the
opposite kind just to balance values,
and to save them from the mistake OF
marrying shallow woman in order to
get an agreeable wife. However, she is
not his sister and her sweet ways are
his refuge from the injured looks and
Sharp reproofs Of his home, and he mar
ries her, and perhaps finds that the soft,
all that he needs for life's exigencies;.
and then he finds himself creating an
ideal--a woman who has the strength
of the one and the Sweetness OF the
other; one who can offer womanly help
without imposing burdeusome sense.
of obligation upon the recsiver. He
will probably never have the orportuni-
ty to prove to himself that his ideal may
be realized his loyalty To- his marriage
VOWS will preclude that. md SO he will
join that vast company who are bearing
the burden OF secret disappoint-
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The trne relation between love and
sacrifice Is understood. Victor Hugo of
fers his picture OF sacrificial woman
hood when he makes one of his charac-,
ters say, "Sho loved much and suffered
much" We know that the highest and
deepest love can not be separated from
suffering; weSfeaI also that there is no
suffering for others that can work noble
ends that has not its root in love, and
the saorifice that springs from this root
exhales the perfume Of Its purpose, as
does the flower, without seeming sslf
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