Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-15
THOUGHTS FOR WOMEN.



The Naidsa'. Necklace.
From. Roumanian Folk song. Trans
lated b. Carmen sylvia
The ni,ie maid was fain 10 MAKE her
"A necklace fine
As sily'ry a. the moonilghts sllv'ry
or as be liver when the moonbeAms
shine.
And 50 she asked the river; Speak.
wilt thou
Give me thy waves that In the moon
light dancer"
And then she went and asked the
moon: VIII thou
Give me Thy glance
Not So" the moon replied. because
Ms glance doth need"
Not 80" the river answered her. for
Must keep my waters for the thirsty
The lite maid was fain to make
A necklace fine;
Then said the sons OF men; Come.
take our tears
To fashion this bright silver chain Of
Then each one gave her his most pre-
cious tears.
And glad were they
To deck the naiden's throat. and all
Thus whispsrea low together. and did
say:
Whence art thou. sister, and from
what heart didst come
Then each one told the griet that did
Her parent heart, and each one thought
herself
saddest OF all.
So now the maiden had her necklace
bright,
More snyery than yonder rivers wave,
or glance Of moonlight. yet when she
tina, necklace brave.
The tears all told her whence they
came and grew
So heavy that beneath the burden sore
The maiden died. and her grave that
chain
weighs evermore.
It is given unto mankind 10 weep,
and one writer at least has assigned
the part OF weeping almost exclusively
TO women. In the folk song above
1t was the maiden who gathered the
tears OF Shero until they weighed
down her life. Womanly nature Is ever
responsive to the cry o. sorrow, and
sometimes IL grows morbid and melan-
choly because the cheerful view Of
life is persistenuy shut out Miss
Harfaden. in Varying Moods" has
pretty aliegory of twin sisters, joy
and Sorrow. which teaches that these
are c0-existent, ana as they pass
through the world side Uy side there V
not after all so great a disparity in
their viHitauons
Were It posri5le 20 make an exact
computation the true sources OF
both the Joy and sorrow Of humanity
Il would probably astOnish most Of us
20 Ind how large q proportion comes
from ourselves rather from our cir
cumstnnces. Probably Imagination
( furnishes Us with acuter forms 81 pleas
ure and pain than any actual oc-
/ currenccs can give, and our emotions
are more deeply stirred in moments Of
anticipation than az any subsequent
I time, SIR. Lewes, is an essay on sui
eide says: THE same uncertainty
which attends our fprecastings OF sue
{ cess and happiness equaily attends our
I force istinrs II failure and misery. The
I radiance is not more liable TO be over
/ cl1uded than the darkness is to be
Z irradiated. We cannot foreEee truly
/ we can only Imagine something which
l may occur; and these imaEinations
. are always wrong. 81 not as 10 the
I event Itself, yet az 70 The degree in
Z which the event Will affect Us Let
: the worst he foresees arrive. II WIN
/ reach mo victim as something very
different from what ne imagined
I II the dreams Of happiness are sell
/ dom fully realized neither are the
/ forsbudlMgs Of woe II IS safe to saw
( that there Is more sorrow In the ina gf-
milton OF misfortune than in the mis-
fortune itself
/ II this BIZ 90. Is not large proper
ton Of the SORROW and pain we endure
/ ne sdlessf Is IL not IN our hands and
under our own cpltrOl2 Many OF the
I actual mlsfortunes Of life NAV be in
/ evitaplt, bat the misery we cause our
J selves by forebodings OF evil Is not
{ irrernediahle.
I The best OF charities Is to put some
/ Thing into the hands OF the indiyid.
ual that viii employ the mind. elevate
/ the taste and aid In the cultivation of
: all That which makes mankind sumo
I rior % The brute creation. Hence there
I can b. no auhler work than that lnau-
] gurated by the Literary association Of
Z this city, the avOwed purpose Of which
Is 10 give to everyone an opportunity
I fer best companlonship. The Aguiiar
I Free Library OF New York City IS re-
! garded as one OF the grandest moral
influences in that city. II was the
work of a noble woman whose name
I Is iusep1rIbiy al .Gched TO II. and Is a
grander monument than sculpture
could supply This library has now
: three branches. and during one month
eireulstes 1900 volumes. There Is now
offered 10 Fort Worth an opportunity
FOR similar llberality-one man or
woman may not feel able to do the
entire work, but there are a number
who could come forward ana liber-
ally ana substantially aid the earnest
WORK Of the devoted women who are
forwarding this work. an enterprise
worthy q effort and self-sacrlice, and
Z which VIII be an ornament 10 the city
ana an honor TO. this community.
.
II II related OF a savage tribe that
ON seeing sun-dial for the first time
SO great vaa their reverence that they
We're unwilling to have Il exposed 10
fhe suns rays; they therefore built
root over II. Is II not often so Ia
our lives2 We shut out. Il may be
through ill-advlsed vtueration. the very
Influences which contribute to useful
ness. L would be well TO Spen the
heart 10 NfnrOof vrhnfat-at. ,-.a..,te