The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-05-19
THE HOME CORNER.

messed in every city are shocking in
the extreme, and cannot fail to have
hardening effect on the young people
who grow up accustomed to such sights
and sounds. The very fact that such
q society was in existence would put
a check to a greater part of the in-
humanity, for even brutal men would
be far more eventempered if they
knew that an arrest and fine would
be the consequence of any act of
cruelty. The Home Corner would
like to see some action taken in the
matter, and believes 1t should be done
in the interests of humanity. as well
as for the protection of the brute crea-
ton.
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After several days of rainy and dis
agreeable weather, when the sun
does shine out, how the people throng
the streets. 1t is as though the clouds
had been swept from all the skies and
everything were bright and serene
and hopeful. The rainy day people
have all vanished. Nobody knows
where they went or what became Of
them. Gloom, and hopelessness, and
illtemper, have gone with the clouds
and rain, and new race of people,
sunny-day people, are transacting
business, and promenading, or riding,
or driving.
~.
/ How many things worth seeing one
sees on the street cars on such day
as this. A great variety of people go
about on the street cars. 1t is very
pleasant to see how jubilant every
body is, to note the pretty dresses, the
smiling faces, the calm serenity which
have come out with the sun. No more
ugly gossamers and uncomfortable
overshoes, no more tiptoeing over
SLOPPY crossings, or carrying about
with one the perpetual consciousness
of looking ones worst. Oh, no. The
sunny-day people are different race.
Even Quilp takes his mother-in-law
out riding, and Micawber plucks up
spirit and tells the gentleman next
him in the street car that he Is draw
ing back for a spring of no ordinary
magnitude, and Cherryble Bros. are
busy perfecting a great scheme by
which the shivering wretch shall be
clothed and the hungry fed.
W.
Do you see that group waiting at
the corner? Some workman, having
a holiday, and taking his wife and the
two little ones out riding. They are
all dressed very plainly, though they
wear their best, but their faces are
full Of quiet happiness, and they are
enjoying their holiday to the utmost.
The father holds the boy upon his
knee when they take their seats. and
keeps the plump dimpled hand In his
all the time, and it is quite evident
that this is the only boy in all the
world. The mother keeps looking
down at the sleeping baby, who cares
very little for anything in the world
or out of 1t so long as that loving face
bends above it. Among all the sun
ny-day people you will find no group
pleasanter than that.
There is young girl--a quiet girl,
who looks straight at one when she
speaks, in a true, straightforward
way that is beautiful indeed. The
young man who has just come in II
manifestly glad to meet her. He
manages to slip into the next seat, and
presently begins talking. His voice
| Is low, but the color In her face flames
higher and higher as he talks. ~
didn't intend to tell you this here"
hear him say In that low quiet tone,
"but when mans heart Is full, he
can't we'll wait for times and places.n
And then the girl looked up, and her
.af ktu IL
have read what they told. The two
sat still for little while, but finally
they alighted at a crossing and
walked away together, her hand rest
ing on his arm, and an air about them
both told how "'Sls love that makes
the world go round"
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And here are two old people, both
of them gray and wrinkled- people
who have journeyed hand in hand for
long time. The house from which
they come Is very plain little cot
tuge, but one can see through the
vines at the window that there are
two great, wholesouled armchairs side
by side in the room. See how care
fully he seats her and asks SO tender
ly ''Is the wind to cold for you, Sweet
heart? p And her gentle mo, Dearie'
in reply. All, say what you will,
there is the genuine romancel Young
love is so easily reused, so easily kill
ed; but love that has survived the
storms and trials and griefs of forty
years, love that enables man to call
his wife Sweetheart" when her face
is wrinkled and her eyes are dim, that
is love that will go across into the
land beyond and claim Its own, even
there.
So the sunny day people make q
pleasant study, and blessed is he that
has eyes to see what Is before him.
JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.
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