The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-18
SOLICITOR ONCE MORE.
He PHILOSOPHERS on Various Matters in a
Cheerful Mood.


may be in our everyday existence. 1t
helps the mind to 90 out in fancy and re-
atty. and muse on the past as it was, on
the present as it is, and on the future as it
may be.
Thank you, 'Ida S" but in youth cul-
tivated impulses that needed restraint,
and often found myself delighted in the
"cook's corner" "The trick of meddling
grew so much" as it always does. L
learned to take things coolly and deliber
ately then, and have ever since, except
on special occasions, a trait quite as much
OF discipline, perhaps, as OF nature. No,
don't care for -four, even on my long-tail
coat that I wore last June. If III.
o. NJ" will kindly favor me
with those dainties she knows SO
well how to make. Happiness, you know
is made, not bought. IL does not reseIn-
BILE bundle of merchandise, gold and
silver, or a pretty girl, and often disap-
pears like frogs in winter and for reasons
Just as good. You know We don't want
props to support our weaknesses, but
means to cultivate our taste and correct
our judgment.
Will the secretary please call the roll
Oh, isn't she here? Well, we may as
well excuse our newly married folks for
awhile. 1t is presumable they are lost 10
society and enraptured in the sublimity,
the affinity of dual beatitude, where one
is a god, the other a goddess. Doubtless
they experience an al-sutficient bliss, a
sympathetic mental composure undis-
turbed by the worlds busy din. Our
older coniugal friends have been in the
same enchanted land and extend many
kind wishes TO "Cornet' and Cousin
Mary" May you ever be happy. But
the existence and also the brevity of this
trancient, ecstatic delight is a matter OF
| constitution as well as OF discipline.
They're excusable, if they return soon.
And they will find that the reality of a
broader, deeper life. which succeeds he
true cOnjugal relation, which softens the
touch of care-a life of necessity inter
mingled with the surging current OF life
around then-is sweeter, far, because of
this constitutional trait.
Thank you, brother Frank, like Chill"
and Nancy" you have a Especial gilt, -
cultivate 1t. That chronological fellow"
doubtless found that TO promote the in
terests of others is the most thankless task
imaginable And he must know that
happiness is from within, regarding the
dumps" and not the visible vicissitudes
of human life 1t is interesting to note
the progress revealed, intellectually, the
successive productions of our beloved
members. Advancement follows when
we mediate we'll over what we write and
| read-when We give ourselves wholly to
it, with diligence and steadfast purpose,
after the assurance that the subject is
! worthy of careful attention. You know
the imagination may be kindled by some
electric spark of originality in Others and
II fhnYnht
is generated. No! in our beloved circle
we don't have to search through bushels
of chaff to find few grains of wheat; but
We find golden granary of good counsel,
which helps us to think deliberately, de-
/ eide resolutely, and act firmly and wisely.
| This is well, for direful and vast are the
| conflicts of the social aud moral world. 1t
! is training in the little things of life every
body wants and must have if they would
succeed That training is of little value
which does not embrace the every day af-
fair of life around us.
The world is wide, these things are small;
They may be nothing. but they re all.
There. poetry again. Some great man
has said: Never write poetry when you
can possibly help it," Cruel assertion
| Why, the poets have given US a charming
picture of life, with landscape as fair as
wide, glowing with intellectual rad ance.
They show us nature smiling through her
tears, and give us beautiful conceptions of
passing away, strangely impressive, as
| they sever the loveiest associations. They
show us that time, while it blights the
rose, fringes the forest with golden beauty,
like the pure dew that drops from the eye
lids of the morning. And we see that
time, while it crumbles thrones, gives life
to republics; it robs us OF earth. but gives
us heaven it raises the cross, but bursts
open locked paradise; it separates low
ing hearts, but again unites them. Yes,
truly, the poet most beautifully shows us
that time destroys but to beautify and en-
! noble. Hurrah for the poet! Three
cheers for 'our" poets!
But there are perhaps more failures in
literary life" to-day than any other pro-
fession tneed / say | am not in the ring?).
Every great p man is expected to write
book, and he is scarcely cold in death be-
fore the waiting public are favored with
| reproduction of his footprints on the
sands of time" No matter whether the
subject is a Sherman or a Sitting Bull,
their temple of fame remains with us, in
tended to prove an incentive for us to
bravely do the work of men and women
while we bear the form of them. But /
am DEPRESSING. What do you think of the
assertion tnat ntneSS Tor literary lie IL
matter of discipline, rather than of con-
stitution? True in literature there are
many whose ignorance is equaled only by
their pretentions Their efforts will never
reach the goal their imaginatiohs fore
shadow. Their lives represent every de-
gree OF failure and vocation in life, and
they agree with Thackeray that Zone of
the greatest evils is to be born with a
literary taste" Strange conclusion III
ITO say what other people only
think is what makes men poets and sages,
"who would not bow TO Fame, and let the
life-work prove what the intellect knows,
the heart feels, and lips say" The last
| quotation is true also of woman and | am
| sure that in our beloved society there are
many Frances K. Wizards who, with her
sex's recruiting army, will show succeed
ing generations a cheerful and better
way Of looking at things. convince them
that success at the expense of honor. OF
conscience and OF self-respect is not sue
cess; and, while they impart a fervent de-
sire to be personally pure, lead them, as
they now do, on the ascending scale of
Christian life. Women 10 the rescue Of
this republicl Sublime spectaclel Woman
ha- in her favor mans natural sentiment
toward her-respect, reverence-admiring
her grace her sentiment, her innate deli
/ cacy, her tenderness, her modesty, her