The National tribune., 1893-11-09
EDITORS CHAT.
It Have Everything Your Own

If You Cannot Have Everything Your Own
Way, Do Not Pull Out.
You all know of a little girl who. when things
do not go her own way. says:
eff you DO that for don't do itl I viii take my
dolls snd go home"
Now. there are more people than little girls who
carry into work and play the same iniolersnt
spirit. IF he game goes wrong they sulk or scoid
If the balance of trade is against them they give
infdespair or charge croekedness aud double deal
ing npon their fellows
If all goes well they are gay and joyous,
gantly So sometimes. II things go against them
they are much to be feared The fairy bears
and hobgoblins our old Morse ancestors dreaded SO
much.
For our Morse ancestors always find il easier TO
fight a known foe. tigers aud lions and such like,
than they did the unseen things of bog and wold
and roaring sea. And fear the fanlt-finders
and the general complainsnts ali around more
than do the real obstacles that beset paths,
such as hard work and brisk competition, and dal!
markets, and the early and late frosts.
II is good thing to pull all together, and what
we lose in this certain to gain ia that. We
cannot all think alike and alike. 1t is the good
common mean should seek to strike always
trying TO and feel and think others do. since
81 is only through our understanding ofthings
whole that can hope to engraft ourselves a
part.
There is strength In unity in association, in COM
psrison. Things not all done st once. There
must be a seed time before a harvest; a sleeping
before waking; Winter before Summers the
blsckness of earthly night before the radiance of
Paradise. Even God took time to create the uui-
verse; he might have blown it into shape with
breath.
GOOD BREEDING.
"Whst Is good breeding:"
So asks c. C. friend in good faith. Let us see
If we can answer and be practical.
Have you seen thoroughbred horse? So
quiet, gentle, so placid Drive him along the
street. snd he cares nothing sll for the rush and
roar He gives heed TO the locomotive, to the
electric He looks straight ahead and steps
dRintily 3 lady going TO her frsi bail.
But when the broad boulevard or the open COM
mon is reached and the master gives him the rein,
away he flies with the speed of the wind until the
same hand checks the rein and brings him down to
gentle walk again.
Contrast the thoroughbred with your preientious
Junk head whose sire a pillow horse, and
whose mother moped with garbage cart. DE |
comes in from The farm. sleek and fat and snowy.
He and eavorts and plunEes about in his efforts
90 prove himself the king OF the turf and SHES |
and jumps st every little disturbance obstacle. |
Here is race horse for you. he would have you /
know. The boulevard the open common is /
reached and bis master gives him the rein. But !
courage and strength have been exhausted, and he /
is too hot snd nervous to respond TO whip curb.
Can you not make the application readily !
enoughf To be thoroughbred is to be master Of /
yoursefsnd your powers; to make yourself amen
able TO authority; TO try all things test all things
prove all things; to be thorough, selEreliant I'M
moved by things great small; to hoard your re-
sources and cherish your powers for the race set
before you. To recognize the controlling hand
Of God. whether 20 hold you firm in beaten paths
or 10 speed you Ike the wind in ways you know
not of. This it is 10 be thoroughbred.
OLA BELL HoTBAM SPEAKS.
Ola Bel HOiham gives her ideas of happy homes
In the following pleasant letter. growing Of the
discussion as to whether the homes where children
are or those where they the hsppiest.
LET Us LOVE TIE CHILDREN.
DEAR e. C. FRIEsDs: cannot agree with Eva
that the baPplest homes those without chill
dren- My observations have proved to me that
the reverse Is true.
Home is not home in the true sense of the word
without children. As ore Of my friends once said
" It - like ship without an anchor"
A home without children! Ii is like a lantern !
and no candle; garden and no flowers; vine
and no grapes; brook, and no water gurgling aud
gushing In it's channel"
Mutual love for their children strengthens the
love that husband and wife feel for each other
The best aud brightest and hsppie-t homes / |
know OF are those Of people in ordinary ercuul- |
stances, and there are children in those homes.
And somehow the wife and mother finds time to
think and plan for her husbands happiness and
bis wife; that other children can compare with |
his; thai there IS no place like has own home.
Love abides there aud there Is 10 discussion be |
tween husband and wife. They realize that to rear
Their Children 10 useful manhood and womanhood |
they mus cooperate with each other; that Ma
uonal life depends on the home life.
The clasp Of little chd's hand is stronger than |
bands Of steel; the influence Of little child IL more
potent than dream Of
There is little girl in our home whose pretty |
baby ways VIII all hearts She rules the household
night royalty, aud makes her wants known in an |
lmperious manner
without her our home would not seen. right
some OF tie light and gladBess would be gone out |
Of our lives.
Lei each think for himself In this az in ali
tnings, yet 10 my mind, the ideal home is the home
where children laugh and make merry; where |
they make Known their childish wants and cares |
aud tell their little joys only children can. And
llhink sometimes that we grown folks more |
SLOW to = mpsihize it'll them than ought TO be- |
Let ns love the children. Loyalty, yours-