Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31


profitless employments.
IT is only by labor that thought can
made healthy, and only by thought tn
labor can be made happy; nor can
two be separated with impunity.
IT does us good to admire what
good and beautiful; but it does us
finitely more good to love it. We gro
like what we admire; but we become O
with what we love.
LIFE is thick sown with thOrns, and
know no other remedy than to pa
quickly through them. The longer
dwell on our misfortunes, the greater
their power to harm us.
INSTRUCT your son well, or othd
will instruct him i'll. No child goes
together untaught. Send him to t :
school of wisdom, or he will go of him
self to the rival academy.
IT is not those who shine in society
but the people who brighten up the home
not the people who are charming
when they are out, but those who are
charming when they are in-that are
good to live with.
IT is the excess and not the nature of
our passions which is perishable. Like
the trees which grow by the tomb OF
Protesilaus, the passions flourish until
they reach certain height; but no soon
er is that height attained than they
wither away.
RELIGION,in its purity,is not so much
a pursuit as temper; or rather it is
temper, leading to the pursuit of all that
is high and holy. Its foundation is
faith; its action, works; its temper, holi-
ness; its aim, obedience to God in i'm
provement of self, and benevolence to
man.
HE that has energy enough in his con-
stitution to root out vice should go a
little further, and try to plant virtue in
its place; otherwise he will have his Ia
Dor to renew. A strong soil that has
produced weeds may be made to produce
wheat with much less difficulty than it
would cost to make it produce nothing.
EVERY man is not the proper champi
on for truth, or fit to take up the gaunt-
let in the cause of verify; many, from
ignorance of these maxims, have too
rashly charged the troops of error, and
remain as trophies unto the enemies of
truth. A man may be in possession of
truth as of city, and yet be forced to
surrender.
IT is not altogether overwork that in
jures mans capacity for labor. Under
work is often quite as injurious. A tool
that rusts by lying by very often gets as
much harm as, and is apt to become al
most more quickly worn out than, one
that is kept in constant use. So that, if
a man makes up his mind to do as little
work as possible in the course of the
day, he voluntarily infiicts upon him
self drawback of similar nature to
that which is imposed upon those who
are compelled to overwork themselves.
WoMAN's mission on earth is some
thing grand and noble, and she should
be loved, respected and cared for by all
for her natural disposition
should be as God intended, that of love,
affection and virtue. For if she loves a
man she will give her right hand to
please him, and if she hates him she
will give her right hand to avenge him.
Thus she lives in one extreme or the
other, seldom bringing her judicatory
thoughts to bear; and once outside her
for which she was created, she
is Justly compared with a hell in the
midst of humanity.
WHEN Peter of Cortona was engaged
on picture for the Royal Palace of
Pitt, Ferdinand II. particularly admired
the representation of weeping child.
HAS your majesty" said the painter,
"a mind to see how easy it is to make
this child laugh?" And suiting the action
to the word, the artist merely depressed
the corner of the lips and the inner eX-
tremity of the eyebrows, when the little
urchin seemed in danger of bursting his
sides with laughter, who a moment be-
fore seemed breaking his heart with
weeping. If this be true in the world of
living men, slight, very slight are the
causes that make or break the happiness
of life. The touch of a brush can dim
Heaven with a cloud, or brighten the
prospect of the fair horizon.
ABOVE every other feature which
adorns the female character, delicacy
stands foremost within the province of
good taste. Not that delicacy which is
in quest of something to be
of, which makes a merit of
blush, and shippers at the false construct
ion its own ingenuity has put upon an
innocent remark; this spurious kind of
delicacy is as far removed from good
taste as from good feeling and good
sense; but that high-minded delicacy
which maintains its pure and undeviat-
ing walk alike amongst women as in the
society of men, which shrinks from no
necessary duty, and can speak when re-
quired, with seriousness and kindness,
of things at which it would be ashamed
indeed to smile or blush. This is the
delicacy which forms so important a
part of good taste, that where it does not
exist as a natural instinct, it is taught
as the first principle of good manners,
and considered as the universal passport
to good society.