St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-02
A new, WHITE BOOK.
Thus Does Aunt Polly Con-
slider the Opening New
Year.
It May Be Preserved in Pur-
ity or MARRIED by Mis-
takes.
A Plea for Patience on the
Part Of Humanity in
General.
Che Weary and Heavily Laden
Deserve Consideration
From All.

A happy new year to all OF the
woman:s department readers. This
new year is like beautiful big blank
book. Its leaves are all so white-so
blank-itis ours to fill as we Will win
beautiful thoughts and deeds, or 10
sully with caricatures and evil pictures;
even ours to CRIME with evil. if we so
choose. But, my dears, let, us take
some good resolutions right here. with
the diving fall of the new years
bells let all the old years shadows OF
hate and envy and useless fret die
away. With the first of the pages OF
our book let us begin that better living
of which we all dream at once.
If any sister has wounded you
cruelty, perhaps unjustly, try to think
how very little you know of her real life,
OF how hard her cross may be to carry,
and perhaps the thrust she gave you
was only the little vent that poor, weak
humanity must have when its measure
pf endurance is full. | often feel APP
palled when | think how fearfully alone
each soul is and must be in the journey
through the world, and think, with
tendereSt pity, of the sorrow and I'M
h" 0piness that pride hides,a and properly
hlues, from all about one. How disap-
pointment hardens and sourS some nat
ures till they can take pleasure only in
wOunding their fellow travellers.
Women are more often in this frame OF
mind than men because their lives are
more circumscribed; they are more the
victims of circumstance and environ
ment, and more dependent upon the
love and sympathy of those about them,
because their lives are conferred in their
homes and friends.
So if, perchance, you sometimes get
sword-thrust from your friend that her
husband or some other person should
have had, just forgive it; you may
"stand in battle array" without cause OF
outward seeming yourself, some day.
Then there is envy, that spoilS more
lives than all the other sins in the cal
endar. If YOU could look into the lives
OF these people who, like "MOrdecai at
the kings gate" shut out half of your
sunshine, you would take up your own
bitter burdens with a heart full of pity
for the ones You so lately enyled. and
thankfulness that your life is as it is.
Do you remember the old story of how
JOVe allowed all the discontinued people
to appear before him and exchange bur-
denS? and do you remember how the
earth rang with the waiting of the bear
ers because the burdens, self-assumed,
hurt in some unexpected place. SO that
the god could not rest, but let all have
another chance with their own again?
This old story bears deeper signif-
canoe than appears on its lace. There
is one who appoints our tasks in this
great school Of life, and be sure. my
dears, he never allOts tasks that each
soul does not need. So with the new
year; let us take stock" as a business
man would say, and see what we are
prepared to be thankful for, and then
make good resolves; and, having made
them, let us stick to them and do them
thoroughly. One of the evils of this
day is lack Of thoroughneSS. We see
It everywhere from the half-work in
our kitchen to the shabby, half-built
houses with their veneering of hard
wood. This is one of the evils we can
remedy, and let us do it with will.
AUNT POLLY.