Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-22
fore I could say word in regard to the
bequest, my hostess said:

fore I could say a word in regard TO the
bequest, my hostess said:
AGNES WEDDING GIFT.
agnes YOU must show Mistress Bah
your diamond brooch"
l looked sufficiently surprised to invite
an explanation. This was it:
Perhaps you heard my dear, that Cous-
in Nancy left me a thousand dollars!
Well in looking over my really handsome
things. 1 gave my solid silver tray and
cream jug TO Mary, when she was married.
and the pearls that We're my wedding pres
ent to Louise. when she was married. So
there was nothing really handsome left
for Agnes, so when this money came !
went right down to Tinany's and bought
a diamond brooch, so that Agnes might
feel she was not neglected"
To be honest, l was so surprised that
I wondered that the glver of this money
did not rise from her grave and indulge
I'm a few words of sulphurous faint. And
yet the recipient of the brooch and the
purchaser thereof seemed to think that
what was right had been done.
Another woman, lady, was widowed
when she was twenty-five; she had a
lame child, a tiny girl. Her husband left
only a two thousand dollar life insurance.
The widow and her child went back TO
live in a household where the getting
bread and butter was already n diihculty
and every mouth counted. Everybody
who knew the widowed one felt glad about
the life insurance. The people who were
most intimate with her best concluded
that she would use it to open little
neighborhood store, and so make a home
and a living for herself and her sick child.
ONE WOMANS WAY.
When called to see her l was told she
was away. l concluded she was visiting
some friends. Ny second call found her
at home. and then I was told that she had
lust gotten back from New York. she
went on 10 say that she had always want
ed to see New York. and that she knew
moor Harry. who had always been an IN
dulgent husband. would have liked her 20
go; and then, too. she hadn't wasted her
money on "a lot of nonsense, for she had
stayed six weeks at a good hotel and
bought herself pair of diamond earrings.
She said that she felt this was sensible
uurchase because when she was dead her
little girl could have them. and diamonds
were always good. Her entire family
svmpathized with her and thought she
had done what was right. Afterwards. l
heard that my behavior was criticised as
cold-hearted: they said ] looked as If l
thought she ought not to have spent the
money as she did. l never knew before
what a truth-telling face | had! But
really. it does seem as If there Were some
women in the world who needed to be led
and cared for like lambs.
our men are. the most Of them, nine
teenth century Bayards. But they insist
upon showing their generosity and their
love. as they think best, without giving
much thought to the effect that every
action has on the world at large.
DUTIES ARE NOT ULEAsANT BUR-
DENS.
but when one does ones duty. no matter
how unpleasant it may be, there is GER
tain pleasant satisfaction that permeates
one that is indescribable. 1t IS sort OF
mental shaking hands with ones self. 1t
&c the absolute recognition that one has
done right. and done right without hoping
for any reward. Yet the reward for a duty
done is a certainty, but certainty that
NAV not come Just when you expect IT..
How mean you do feel when you let some
body else do your duty. How miserable
and low YOU do seem not only in your own
but in the worlds eyes! 1t must be easier
7 think. to get over committing one great
crime than to satisfy ones self with
Sinking the duties Of everyday life.
Some people don't even Ike the word
duty" they forget that it rhymes TO
beauty. and they also forget how many
kinds Of beauties there are. There IS the
beautv that is but skin deep, and of which
Won grow weary; and there Is the beauty
Of heart and of life. which makes some
body a delightful compaion forever ana
forever.
When YOU are seeking n wife you want
TO look for that one who possesses beauty
Of HEARTH may be that she has Deauu-
fuI face. too. but remember, no matter
how beautiful that is, 1t will change for
old are comes to everybody. He is visit
mr. IN whom we cannot deny ourselves.
10 drills the eyes and wrinkles the skin
and bends the back and makes husky the
voice b,t unless you are lacking In love
and kindness and in sympathy, he can
never touch the heart, so that 1t Is al
WAYS worth while to look out for beauti-
fuI heart. Who has It? Each one OF us
would like to think that we owned all the
virtues. Each one Of us can be certain
that we possess but few, but each one of
Ms can try, and, in forming a class for
the cultivation of good heart put as
near the top as you can the name of
Bah.