The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-24


Swallowed her life? BE sure she does.
Suppose it is the poor relation"
withered and gray, and patient, who
needs, but nevera SKIS your large
hearted consideration
One is SO used 10 her drawn face, her
quiet step, her long accomplishing
service, her content with what is
grossly called board wages" that ono
hardly pauses TO put her outside of the
daily habit OF the house as a soul by
itself When the home DAYS" come,
when the extra step and the extra
smile are exacted and exported OF her
is there always somebody TO rcmem-
Der how lonely she Feels. or to under
stand the hesrt-sick homeiessness OF
one who spends life in the homes of
other people? II is not an easy way
10 live. All your sweetest tact and
gentless thoughtfuiness cannot make
it 50.
II the cook sulks or the waitress
cries, count twenty before the rebuke
flashes from the lip. No satisfaction
has ever estimated ttN amount %
pluck and the depth of homekickness
in the lives of our Young Irish girls
'.just como over" and mourning for
homo and parents One, l knew.
who, whenever she was hurt by
any little accident, instinc.ivelv
cried out: ''Oh. me mothcrr' Just
as most OF us say: "oh, MY Cod"
Christmas did not omit 20 happen. in
the old country, in the warm-hearted
peasants loving home. Too often wa
act as if we had forgotten this simple
histor- zeal fact.
Even IL the sob means no more th IA
that well-nat,ralized Bridget rauss
give up her dance At her cousins TO
stay and roast turkey for us and our
cousins, there is a deprivation, there is
grief. Let US be patient with il.
There is small way of giving great
enough educate ourselves or each,
other; and that is by remembering
other peoples anniversaries.
The relative or CUES. who is widow
indeed steals away and locks herself
in her own yoom when she Is particu-
larry wanted: she comes down M an
swer 10 somebody's impatien knock
Why did she not stay tn play the
waltEcs for the children 10 dancer She
brushes of the streaming tears. Las.
year--two yezrs-or was 10 . hundred
years ago-she bowed those wet cheeks
To the last kiss of lips that are cold
Her Christmas is "a day TO be got
over"
There sits one at your 6rcside be,
rcaved of the light of his life. IL il his
first Christmas without her. lie wan,
dcrs about the house with the pathetic
awkwardness of homelrs and a
wrexched man. He tries TO brave IL out
as men do. He would get over IL
somehow, II he can He strolis into ALI
sorts of unoccupied places. ostensibiy
TO smoke. lie filings himself gu. for
long walks on the grounds of head.
ache. He joins in the chorus of Home
Sweet Home" and breaks down sne
takes his hat and Disappears. He il
not there TO distribute the presents,
and someb body says: How unzracions
of him Vine understands that every
glance of love frornhsppy eye TIC happy
eye, every touch of . live wife's hand
upon her husbands arm. every littls
loving attitude with which abe turns
to him or clings TO him. stabs the be-
rcavcd mans heartto the core
To sum /. Ia . word. be merelfuh
be merciful 10 sorrow. to dc isolation. to
uncomfortable posStsens. that are has
half understood. Go irritable nerves,
whose causes are not known. 70 mem
cries whose underground rivers yog
cannot follow. 20 the pas: that every
one else mn, forgotten, 10 the present
that is oveYweighted with pcrpIexftY
too heavy 10 be thrown OF a.. the beck
OF a dance or = inner. 70 that temper
ament which is uanst unlike xour own.
to the sensiti~euess with which you
have least natural sympathy. 70 everg
human hear: that - getting oyer
hard places which you do not eee-
and te mos. nereifai OF saniversar,
days
But the pare il printed on both
sides. The Leaf does no, turn with q
blank which to corresponding obilgs.
ton fills The sad have their sutn-
mons IA well az the glad. aud tl.s
desoiate. sxc the blessed. must answer
20 the grea: call Of Ia. Christ spirit
which rings through ths world he
WHOSE sacred bufh ~ ceirbrAt~ as
above all else a man Of soTr0ses
TO many human heart this IL the
dearest 81 His titles Who ever bcrs
trouble as lie dia3 Hho ever 80 grs.ua-
IL lifted the buTxa~u7 VINO ~ quietly
and patiently and pl.a&Antly. y ous
rnaY say 80. accepted The srueisst 80
lot? Who so flung Ills earn rnis~ry on
Of sight and .ounf2 Who 20 utter
quenchcd Himself sns His per~oEai
pang ia the hsppiBes~ snd
she comfort a o;n<rE2 There lie
stands. .ovroryfui and srsiiing. a spot
less mirror. To hold ones way 81
bearing tronb.- up % Hls for reflection
rszy be humiiistiag, but - il no: an
act which Hi@ersbls p~rson ~re- re-
gretted- Personal sorrow = the lat
thing which should ever b. imposed on
other people The unhappy are uo. -,
take advantage 81 the happy Do NJ:
urge thsir ehivalry. DO not strain
their sympathy 10 not pys.s tessr
Christianity. Do pct get over Tgar
anniversaries TOO pa P@bly. TIE csiea-
Ia machinery Should never c~~zS
The robIs heart when 10 - ~gaace4
w5ih6-a raw. tr+o divine sil~scs- art
as~redly l-zras ia asfai lrsszn fAs
no, sxpce. os ezzc. ton ugr~h is&ru
20 live w!taout sTnp~isT Srfk -
suEer. = seEeT yon n7Ge;. &ssfGsi.
recognition q 80 prfe~ss- BHTF
vgy-sr.elf into tns h4Vp ns@s -sszs-