The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1895-12-08

/ you know OF any one who would do as
much? Again and again she has al
ready endangered that life during six
weeks Of diphtheria or scarlet fever,
aRd she never once brought mp the
question Of whether she had better
stay, breathing day and night the con-
tagion. The graveyards arc 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
viii be more and more of an agony
as the years pass on. Big headstones
Of polished Aberdeen. and the best
epitaphs which the family put to-
! gether could compose. and a garland
Of whitest roses from the conserve
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 a tragedy compared
with which ShalSspeare's King 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 a flower. Take a good
bgsolS and read a 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, if for
no longer a time. A young woman
bound on such a mission, what might
she not accomplish. Oh, there are
thousands of these manufacturers Of
sunshine. They are kings Daugh-
ters" whether inside OF 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 one who lives a round
of Fahities, 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 win 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 a shepherdess
among the hills, or the hattered pet of
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
friFoftfy, and giggle, and indirection
Trhst 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 its dead
lest weapon. Be a Gods woman.
This moment make as mighty a
change as did college student Of En-
gland. lie 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
yonng man / 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
said. II was so struck with what no
said that 1 lay in bed until I had
I formed my plan for life. / ordered
, my fire to be always laid
over night. arose at five and
read steadily all day. Allotted to
each portion OF the day its proper
branch of study, and become the senior
wrangler." What an hour that was
when a resolution definitely placed
/ changed a young man from a reckless
; and time-wasting student to a conse.
= Grated man who stopped not until all
/ time and all eternity shall be debtor
! to his pen and influence.
4 Young womenl draw out, and decide
] what you will be, and do. God help
5 ing. Write it out in a plain hand, not
3 like the letters which Josephine re-
! eeived from Napoleon in Italy, the
writingso scrawling and scattered that
/ it was sometimes taken as a map of
E thq seat Of war. Put the plan on the
7 Vi Of your room, or write it in thd
. opsning Of a blank book, or put it
2 where you will be compelled often to
? see il. A thousand questions of your
4 coming life you can not settle now,
3 but there is one question you can settle
Z independent of man. woman, angel
, and devil, and that is that you will bo
l a Gods woman now, henceforth and
forever Clasp hands with the
> Almighty. Pythagoras represented
3 life by the letter y, because it easily