Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1890-02-08
A cHAT WITH TIE GELS.
Building tie White Temple They Are to
Inhabit Later On.

Girls, come over here to this coy corner
and listen to me a while. Come, every one
of you-bright eyed Susan bonuy Mary,
fairy Lillian, gentle Annie--come and let mo
tell you something it may be well FOR you to
know. That's right, dears, draw the por-
there's cozly, 50 that we shan't disturb other
"HouscLo,lcrs."
don't suppose you have had time in your
young lives to think, as yet, very seriously;
but you've been 0iossoming so beautifully in
! this hcyday Of your youth that we haven't
| had the heart TO bring one serious look upon
the faces Of Our lovely human flowers But
my dears-alack q day life isn't going to
! stay quite so full of sunshine and moonlight
| and dew as it has been hitherto--there will
be few clouds to pass between you and the
| golden luIniuary; and more than once the
dew will forget TO place it's cool moisture ON
your thirsty lips And for this wish to pre-
pare you.
First of all, that these perverse triAes may
not oyerwhelm you, let it be your pride and
ambition to develop within yourselves true
womanhood; or, in other words be true to
the wonanly instinct that will come to you
like soft whispers of some guardian angel, if
| you but listen with willing ears.
At this very moment you are unconscious
ly building for yourselves the white temple
you are to inhahit later on Examine care
fully each block before you put it in position
cast out the discoored, the unworthy, the
impure, the false, using only that material
that is perfect and pure.
Does this block seem to shine with a pc
cuiqr radiance9 Turn it all about, hold it in
another Gght-ah, you see it's luster was but
borrowed aud it crumbles at your touch!
Does the samencss of tone make this one uE-
attractive TO your eyes? Place it in position
-see it fits into the place exactly; and note
the crystal clearness of its purity!
Girls, the foundation Of this temple is to be
laid at home-where those who love you can
assist III the laying Of the corner stone. The
work begins there-right in the heart Of
home. Your leisure hours are full of golden
ossioiliiies-buid fast while yet you claim
them; fbr it is not the hours it takes to finish
your edifce, but the .paanner in which, you
build that is to be com hered. In this work
+. time counts for little; Nd the temple of one
may be finished to the very altar before, in
the structure of another, the keystone is
placed ID the arch.
Each bet that brings a smile of Joy to c
loving hother's face; each effort of yours
that tuf S a fathers admiring eyes upon you
sondly--these go to form blocks Of beauty
Others are made by kind words and an!iablC
endeayors to help q younger brother or sister
over tie little hindrances that, to their child
ish eyes, look SO formidable. Sympathy with
the worla of suffering causes your spiritua
edifice to grow with wondrous celebrity, anC
. the u,akug of pure and noble sentiments Of
, others your own, lends an establishment t.
+ the masonry.
2 Shun the society that threatens the deli
cately clean cut edges of your building ma
terial. Turn recluse, rather, young as yol
T.. are, and live with the pure and lofty nature
! met in books Not the dogmatic, the arti
q ficialy pious the unnatHnlly staid, but tn
: cheerful, jolly, winsome, free and humanl,
good heroes and heroines our sensible modern
n writer's have felicitously placed in the niche
4 of ancient, worn out models, that were prim
l. and cold, and conventional, and impossible,
perfect.
> Above all cultivate the Christian graces
r Try to see the good in all things and believ
+ that evil is but msdirected good, and lie
4 your heart be filed with pity for the way
a ward that walk in darkness.
h Eschew grrmbling end railing at fate; S
i long as you do battle with her, just so lon,
6 will she show you countenance repulSiv
: and severe. But hold out your hands to he
d in welcome, offer her bravely the best il
h your possession, shut your eyes to the undo
sirableness Of the thing she bi ings you, and
v if l haven't learned the wrong lesson, SD
will turn toward you side robed in radiau
q garments, her smile viii reflect your own
q the gift she has brought you change with til
\ magic of your touch and become thin
% precious and desirable
r Oh, girls, believe me, for I know her vel
h Mrs. Sixty in Detroit Free Press Household