Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
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this, one can hardly be ignorant of the i'm
portance of sufficient ballasting TO maintain
the good condition of tracks in order to in
sure the safety of the trains, as it is mat
Ter of daily observation that the roads
are regularly inspected and loads OF
gravel used in the repairing.
Many life lessons lie along the railways
and may be picked up with profit In fact
comfort in life is much like the smooth run
ming train; The axles are oiled, the track
level and smooth switches are plenty, and
the grooved wheels fitted to rails fixed in
parallel lines from which any DETECTION
would mean Rim.
1t is much the fashion of the world to
sheer ct the worker in grooves, and to COM
mend the parabola as better than the right
line; perhaps it would be painfully pre-
else world without the eccentric, but the
wol d is not likely to suffer lack and the
individual is now being considered. So
long as this rounded sphere exists there
will be young people, and the restlessness
and fire of youth will chafe and burn them
sufficiently to force them out of the beaten
tracks Until thirty, waste of energy is
largely supplied from the fountain Of youth
and the vital forces do not suffer, but after
that age worry not only wears but kills,
and ere that time the track should be laid
and the rivers bed so chaneled, that life
would move easily upon a settled track, or
flow gently along between quiet grass-bor-
dered banks.
While this need of evenness in life applies
TO all persons, 1T is of especial importance
to women that worry be avoided and that
their lives after the heyday of youth is
passed be spent in quiet regularity.
A word of caution is appropriate at a
season when SO many are leaving home for
the summer, too often exchanging large
airy rooms for stufy apartments, and
wholesome food for a class of cookery that
can not be conducive to health. In going
away as well as in staying at home worry,
late hours, Irregularities of any kind should
be avoided as much as is possible. 1t is
worry and dissipation that make the crow
foot, and every wrinkle is the work of the
finer of care which often might have been
LuIutu dSlut. a WTlutE ItCtHGiy Sdlu tiluu
it was not so much work as holidays that
made people grow old-it was vanity, ambi-
ton, an nordinate desire to shine. with the
worry attendant, that marred the visage
and Slapped the energy. Because of the
restlessness these beget, people wear out
faster from eighteen to thirty-fve than
afterward In youth they chafe at hamper
ing conditions, refuse to work in grooves
and Often at the end find themselves losers
because of their Impotence and of their de-
parture from the rectilinear. The comfort
able stage is reached when one has found a
rut and is willing to work in it, when bring
ing cheerfulness to every task one has
come 20 realize what vanity and
vexation OF spirit lie outside the beaten
track. The attainment of this feeling may
be an announcement that age is upon US,
but may it not be as well an indication of
relief from the worry, fever and unrest of
youth; an avowal that we are not rebels
against fate and are not seeking diversion
and excitement, but accept in d genuine
spirit of philosophy what each day brings,
peaceful and content, even though only
peace and contentment are our portion.
Il is true that it was the old lady who said to
young Anne Bullen, Sweetness of content is
our best having" yet had young Anne pos
seSsed the virtue thus eXtolled. her pretty
head had not been rolled into the execu-
toner's basket The life that flows evenly,
the smooth running track, may not satisfy
hitinr, hI,f ,artniO MI m
long life, to peaceful enjoyment and to the
perpetuation of personal beauty, a posses
sion all women strive to retain
-
Carlyle was a rugged Scotchman, and
more of 4 dissecter than a surgeon, yet his
sharp utterances have sometimes keen
ness that converts them into many-sided
weapons. For example, when he teaches
that enlightenment should be identical with
enlargement, that when the mind escapes
from the prison house of can't it should be-
como more tenderly respectful of the pre-
JUDGES of others. 1t is the doctrine Paul
taught when he, though wiser than weak
Christian, refused to eat the meat offered
TO idols lest he offend his brother 1t is
in good taste and in conformity with the
everlasting law of kindness that the sensi-
biities of Christian neighbors should not
be wounded in the playing of secular
music or indulging of noisy games on Sun
day. Good form is strong argument with
many, and up to the present time good
form disoountenances such violation Of
what may be by some characterized as
strait-laced requirements. 1t is also true
that young men who sneer at refusal to
engage in games or to play dance music be-
cause it is Sunday, will grow to respect the
girl who so refuses, either from regard to
the prejudices of others or from her own
convictions of right, for however lax man
may be in his views, he can never fall so
low as not to regard most highly noble
qualities in young woman.
The question has been projected, who was
the greatest woman that ever ived2 The
question is too comprehensive. There is
wide difference between cruel Catherine Il
of Russia, who killed to suit her mood, and
Florence Nightingale, who saved life and
relieved suffering whenever it was posi-
bic. II greatness and goodness were in
Interchangeable terms there would be less diff
ficulty: but, if to make history to leave