The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-29

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: ate how much mother was to us until
! she was gone? Young woman, YOU
will probably never have u more dis
interested friend than your mother
When she says anything is unsafe o.
imprudent, you had better believe
! it is unsafe or imprudent when she
declares is is something you ought te
do, think you had better do 1T. SID
has seen more of the world than you
have. Do you think she would nave
; any mercenary or contemplate motive
in what she advises you? She would
give her life for you if it were Gale q
for. Do you know of any one else who
would do more than that for you? 10
you know Of any one who would 90 as
much? Again and again she has al
ready endangered that life during SIX
weeks Of diphtheria or scarlet fever'
and she never once brought up inc
question of whether she had better
stay, breathing day and night the con-
tagion. The graveyards are full OF
mothers who died taking care OF their
children. Better appreciate your
mother before your appreciation
Of her will be no kindness to
her. and the post-mortem regrets
will be more and more OF an agony
as the years pass on. Big headstones
of polished Aberdeen, and the best
eptaphs which the family put to-
gether could compose. and garland
of whitest roses from the conserva-
tory are often the attempt to atone
for the thanks we ought to have ut
tered in living ears, and the kind
words that would have done more
good than all the Gala lilies ever piled
up on the silent mounds OF the ceme-
teries
Advice the fourth: Allow no time
to pass without Frightening ones life.
Within five minutes walk of you there
is some one in tragedy compared
with which Shakspeare's King Lear or
Victor Hugo's Jean Vatican has no
power. Go out and brighten some
body's life with cheering word, or
smile, or flower. Take good
book and read chapter to that blind
man. Go up that dark alley and make
that invalid woman laugh with some
good story. Go to that house from
which that child has been taken by
death and tell the father and mother
what an escape the child has had from
the winter of earth in the spring.
time of Heaven. For Gods sake, make
some one happy for ten minutes. il for
no longer time. A young woman
bound on such a mission, what might
she not accomplish. Oh, there are
sunshine. They are Kings Daugh-
ters" whether inside or outside
that delightful organization. They
do more good before they are
twenty years of age than selfish
women who live ninety, and
they are so happy just because they
make others happy Compare such
young woman who feels she has such
a mission with ono who lives round
of vanities, card case in hand calling
on people for whom she does not
care, except for some social adj
vantage, and insufferably bored when
the call is returned, and trying to
look young after they are old, and liv-
ing life of insincerity and hollow
ness, and dramatization and sham.
Young woman! live to make others
happy and you will be happy. Live
for yourself and you will be misera-
BILE. There never has been an excep-
tion to the rule; there never will be
an exception.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life
on a big scale, whether you are a
farmers daughter, or shepherdess
among the hills, or the fattered pet of
a drawing room filled with statuary,
and pictures, and bric-a-brac.
Stop where you are and make a
plan for your lifetime. You can
not be satisfied with a life of
frivolity, and giggle, and indirection.
Trust the world. and it will cheat you
if it does not destroy you. The Re- |
doubtable was the name of an enemy's |
ship that Lord Nelson spared twice
from demolition. but that same ship |
afterward sent the ball that killed |
him, and the world on which you
smile may aim at you it's dead
liest weapon. Be Gods woman
This moment make as mighty a
change as did college student of En-
gland. He had neglected his studies,
rioting at night with dissipated COM
panions and sleeping in the class room
when he ought to have been listening.
A fellow student came into his
room one morning before the
young man L am speaking of
had arisen from his pillow, and said
to him "Paley, you are a fool! You
are wasting your opportunities Do
not throw away your life" Paley