Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-23
woman .
Divine sympathy.

And If you have a grief already, and
some of the keenest sorrows Of wom-
ans life come early, roll 1t over on
Christ and you will find him moro SYM
pathetic than was Queen Victoria, who,
when her children, the princes and prin-
cesses, came out of the schoolroom after
the morning lesson had been given up
by their governess and told how her
voice had trembled in the morning pray
er because it was the anniversary Of her
mothers death, and that she had put
hor head down on the desk and sobbed
"Mother Mother" the queen went
in and said to the governess: My poor
child am sorry the children disturbed
you this morning. 1 will hear their
lessons today, and to show you that l
have not forgotten the sad anniversary,
bring you this gift. And the queen
clasped on the girls wrist a mourning
bracelet with lock of her mothers
hair. All you young women the world
around who mourn a like sorrow, and
sometimes in your loneliness and sorrow
and loss burst out crying, Mother
Mother" pot on your wrist this golden
clasp of divine sympathy, LAS one
whom his mother comforteth so will l
comfort you.
Advice the fourth: Allow no time to
pass without Frightening some ones
life. Within five minutes walk Of you
there is some one in a tragedy compared
with which Shakespeare's liking Lear"
or Victor Hugo's "Jean Vatican" has
no power. Go out and brighten some
body's life with a cheering word Or
smile or flower. Take good book
and read chapter to that blind man.
Go up that dark alley and make that in
valid 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 bus had from the winter OF
earth into the springtime of heaven.
For Gods sake make some one happy
for ten minutes If for no longer time.
A young woman bound on such mis-
sion-what might she not accomplish
Oh, there are thousands of these manu-
facturers Of sunshine. They are Kings
Daughters whether inside or outside
that delightful organization. They do
more good before they are 20 years OF
age than selfish women who live 90,
and they are 50 happy just because they
make others happy. Compare such a
Joung woman who feels she has such a
mission with one who lives a round OF
vanities, cardcase in hand, calling on
people for whom she does not care e2-
cept for some social advantage, and in
sufferably bored when the gall is re-
turned, and trying to look young after
she is old, and living life OF insin-
cerity and hollowness and dramatiza-
ton and sham. Young woman, live to
make Others happy, and you will be hap
by. Live for yourself, and you will be
miserable. There never mas been an s1-
ception to the rule; there never will be
an exception.
1 have noticed on many of the rail
roads that the porter will go around and
light the lamps while it is broad day
light, and I am at first surprised, but l
afterward find that we are about to en-
ter tunnel, and its darkness is thus IL
Illuminated. Oh, kindle light for those
who are plunging into financial or do
nestle or spiritual midnight
The Scale of Life.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life
on big scale. whether you are farm
er's daughter, or a shepherdess among the
hills, or the fattered pet of drawing
soom filed with statuary and pictures