St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-25

charming girls they are-have adelight-
full time of 1t, but for the rest of the
year they seem bored to death by their
own existence. A miserable state Of at.
fairs, truly, and they own it, but don't
seem to have an idea how to improve
matters. Need I say that they are con-
stantly in low spirits ?
The fact is, they have too much time
to think of themselves, and small pains
are magnifed into great ones. mount
aims made out of molehills: they run
down. become pale and thin, and fear
fully weak and depressed. The doctor
is called in; there is nothing organically
wrong he prescribes tonics. and per-
for some time the girl feels better, but
the same thing soon begins all over
again. She cannot settle down happily
to home life, because it is too dull; as
long as she has plenty of excitement she
feels all right and as strong as a lion,
but directly that is over, she drOopS, her
spirit goes down to zero, she fancIes all
sorts of things are the matter with her.
is nervous, sleepless, and generally mis-
cradle.
She is much to be pitied, but not to
be laughed at, for fancied ills are some
times just as hard to bear, or even
harder than real ones. The little pain
that we have, or fancy we have, can be
thought of till it grows and aches. and
the idea preyS upon the mind that
something dreadful is the matter. 1t is
thought of at all hours of the day, and
in the wakeful hours of the night, till
life seems burden almost too heavy to
bear.
Girls, if you ever allow yourselves to
int hi
pressed state. think of this; the remedy
is in your own hands. There is no
tonic in the world like work, and es-
pecially work for others. Try hard to
forget yourselves and your imaginary
pains, though you will not quite like at
first being told they only exist in your
own fancy.
Think of the poor. the sick and the
lonely, and let your thoughts take some
practical shape. Make some little
things for the poor children you meet
every day in your walks, who in the
winter look so cold and blue. Think
how they love toy, a doll or scrap
book, easy things to make, but any
amount of trouble is repaid by watching
the delight Of the little one, whose
pleasures are few and far between. In
every house there are scraps and
pieces of material that would make
warm, comfortable garments. You will
be surprised how interested you will
become. and how happy; you will for
, get yourself, which is the best thing
that can happen to you, and be helping
those who sorely need your help, two
fold good.
Self-forgetfulness and work will be
your best medicines, and after long
and steady course of both you will look
back upon the idle and useless days you
used to spend with regret, and a strong
desire to make up for them in the fu-
ture. Take plenty of exercise in the
open air, and if your time is well filled
up you will forget all your fancied aches
and pains; you will sleep like child
and even, in time, be able to make a
joke about those unhappy days when
you were so fearfully depressed.
If. in the end, you marry, you will be
a wife worth the winning; and if not,
you will have found in self-forgetful-
ness and good deeds quietly done. not
only your lost health and spirits, but
that satisfying and peaceful happiness
which, after all, is perhaps the only
happiness quite free from pain.