The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-15
COUNTRY LIFE FOR YOUNG
LADIES.

"A Providence girls idea of pleas
ure is to get away from hoTne.' This
is the criticism some one passed on us
few days ago The lady had been
listening TO us talking to each one OF
us. saying how nice it would be if she
Just could 60 to Vicksburg, or Baton
Rouge. or New Orleans, or the Coast |
This discomfort docs not speak well
tor us, and have been wondering |
how we could help it.
Miss Mary Bryant of the Columbia
Institute used to tell us when we be-
came dissatisfied, to take piece of
paper and on it write out all of the
advantages and disadvantages which
fell to our share. Suppose we try
that experiment nowe Suppose each
one makes, mentally. list 81 what
she has to be thankful for and what
she has to contend with Most of US
will find we are supremacy blessed,
for most of us have health and home
and friends, and freedom to develop
any power in us. Do these blessings
seem common place and tame" to
your They are the greatest God can
give. :.
Recall for a m oment how wretched
and helpless you felt. when You used
to be ill every summer. when the hor-
rid old chills made you weak and ner-
vous and sensitive to every football
and every voice. Try and remember
how then, you thought if you ever
could be strong again you would be
perfectly content, NO matter VIII It
else happened. Try and appre-
ciate the gift of health; appre-
ciate too, the pleasure one receives
from her faculties-the equisite pleas
ure of sight and of hearing.
Then think of the blessings of home.
Realize how dear is that freedom of
knowing, ITO this place | have
right; here are those around me that
love me best, the unes that would stand
by me in sorrow and DISTRESS" and
realize too, that it is for them you
should i've 1t is their lives, the lives
of those you see every morning. noon
and night that you can make happy,
or miserable.
i Outsiders may like and admire you;
may think you beautiful or bright,
but understand you are really nothing
to them You may leave the place
to- morrow, or may die, and in five
years at the uttermost, you will be for
gotten save by the few.left. But those to
whom you are bound by ties of blood.
they never forget you. Once read.
! .LoYe is not a thing of a moments
q t..,t - Ia, n M n
takes long time In being established.
:. The Brooklyn bridge is not made up
of great bars of iron. forged at blow,
{ but it is made up of millions Of tiny
: wires, twisted aud wrought together
these cause it to be infinitely strong
:. and enduring. So is love, real love
. made up of countless acts of kindness
). of numberless words. soothing an6
). cheerful, of sympathy. shown day
- after day and year after year.
= The quotation is not exact, it i
: much mangled and distorted. still
y think | have given the idea
Yes, we should rejoice in these home
= of our youth, which in after years, W
:. will look back upon as very dear AM
> sacred.
AS for our friends, most OF US az
- preciate them, appreciate how much G
:, sunshine and happiness they bring In
. to our lives.
= 1t is then, on the last subject, that
20 most want to talk; on the subject {
- the freedom to develop any later
y power in us. for this believe is ii
&c reason most of us give for wanting
- get away from the home. Here.
70 we say 1--WE lack advantages. Her
q there are no colleges Of letters, must
- eiocution or art
=. | admit that here, we are deprive
" of such Instructions; and in some r
> . spects. the loss rs very real-at Il
:. same time we ought not to everest
!, ~ mate these advantages. When v
= consider how many uncultured. an
even ignorant girls. the best instit
;. tons let pass from their door
u we will realize that surroun
ings certainly do not make the perso
This responsiveness of some natur
reminds one of the statement. If
cannon were to be fired in space, ar
there were no one living in the ur
Ist verse, it would produce no sound. b
cause sound is the effect of the wav
~ set in motion acting upon the hums
- ear. Apply this fact. advantages a
= such only to those that can profit
os them.
g ee Besides. the opportunities OF becor
. ing domestic one has in the countl
:. of reading; of reading quietly, AT
~ with interest, therefore with bench
~ That there is no public library may
"a drawback. butt is not so great Oh
~ ~ as you might suppose. Read nutrition
20 books, those that will feed al
"' strengthen the mind. and take time
!. digest them That will be niue
:. better than hastily devouring the la
literature.
- No girls, the prime reason we don
=, % like the country is, it is not 90
- enough.
We want to see real society. whe
wealth iss lavished on germal
u and balls and receptions. Whe
there is glitter and brilliancy OF su
roundings. We want 10 see what t
"a. French call la belle mode Older pc
me pie may tell us it is hollow. but
:. want TO taste the fruit for ourselve
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