The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-29
TENTMENT.
A Lesson That Should Be Taught Every
Daughter in the Broad Land.

Daughter In the Broad Land.
If had a dozen daughters-which ]
| hayen't-there is one lesson should try to
teach them above all others, the lesson of
simple content. l do not mean that
| should wish them TO be drones; to be pale
and lstless, with no hopes, no ambitions;
TO sit down neekly and say, We'll, it is
| fate and there is no use trying to change
| it; might as well be satisfied" like people
who work out their plans steadily and
| faithfully, and who never give up. But oh,
| this mad fever of unrest that has crept into
! our veinsi
He must be rich enough TO dine with
| princes, Or be must have a fame that will
entitle him to a place. even though it be
| the lowest, at an earl's table. Look at our
| young girls! What dreams they have of
| everything under the sun save a busy, sim
| pie and useful lifeI One longs to be so
| ciety queen, another an actress-to elevate
! the stage-another an eiocutionist, another
a public singer. How few select by prefer
| ence some work that will not demand that
| the "madding crowd" cast flowers and
laudations at their feet.
How few select a work that means living
a simple, Clean innocent life, doing what
soever comes to their hands and keeping a
song in their hearts for the dear ones who
make up their little world. Take the aver
age maiden, too, OF this same great middle
class, and discover her ideal of a husband.
Is it the strong bodied, broad chested no
bleman in working clothes, whose strength
could crush her, but whose heart is tender
as a child's-who would love her, protect
her, work for her till he fell dead?
Or is it the dainty young man, who has
white hands and great display of collar
and cuff; who wears snowy fipery and some
daring diamonds, and rolls pretty cigar
cites, with peculiar tint at the ends of
his fingers-all oa fifty dollars month";
l once heard young woman who was
engaged" to such youth say, with a toss
of her proud, foolish head: Il shall have a
servant. George doesn't believe in women
doing household drudgery, and neither do
l. He says we will dress we'll and be gem
teel, even If we die in a poorhouse when we
are old"
Poor child! That set me to wondering
what they would have for dinner, If serv-
ants and cheap finery were their idea of
"gentility," on the enormous salary of
5000 year.
On the other hand, once had a dear
friend who mad been accustomed from in
fancy to every comfort and luxury heart
could desire. She married young
preacher whose salary was fifty dollars
month. They furnished three small |
rooms in the plainest manner possible, set |
blooming flowers in the windows, and |
singing birds outside, let in the air and |
sunlight, and in every corner they set up
an invisible altar to love. When l try to |
picture content think of that home.
There were two people with refined
tastes who longed for books, pictures, mu-
sic, concerts, lectures, luxuries, all the
pleasant things that mean money, aud
they gave up everything and everybody
else that they might be together, might
make happy sacrifices, one for the other.
1t requires more strength, more faith,
more nobility to live such IA life-and live
it beautifully and DISQUALIFICATION it does
to become great actress or great singer
or society queen. But such a life, dear,
is what mean by content.-Ella Higgin- |
son in West Shore.