The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Selections from the Phil
adelphia Pa.) Saturday
Eve. Post.

fectlN natural as to reduce all trlc-
ton to minimum and Danish
rudeness into oblivion.
In after-life you may have
friends fond, dear friends; but
never will you have again the in
expressible love and gentleness
lavished upon you which none but
a mother bestOws.
There are three kinds of praise
that which we yield. that which
we lend, and that which we pay
We yield praise to the powerful
from fear, we lend it the weak from
interest, and we pay it to the de-
serving from gratitude.
Emerson says, "A man is re-
lieved and gay when he has put
his heart into his work and done
his best If we need confrma-
ton of this, we have but to look
at the dreary and melancholy con-
dition of the man who, on this fair
earth and with all its opportuni-
ties, finds nothing to do.
[ have long felt that until the
fathers and mothers are better
men and women, our schools can
accomplish comparatively little.
l believe that any improvement
that could be brought to bear on
the mothers, more especially, would
effect greater amount of good
than anything that has yet been
done.
Hard and stubborn facts soon
convince the most ideal dreamer
that we cannot choose our own
sphere or control our own circum-
stances, that our daily wisdom is
in making good use of the op-
portunities within our grasp, that
the strong man governs his own
occasions and the weak man is
governed by them.
All volunteered fluent apologies
have some mixture of lie in them.
No person who plans apologies
plans to speak the plain truth.
If he is ingenious, he contrives a
veneer of fact: but the substance
is false-an actuating principle or
motive is kept out Of sight No.
body who is fair and above-board
in conscience and aims has the
apologizing impulse.
Sincerity and politeness can and
ought to go side by side, and they
would do SO if they were both es-
teemed and cherished at their real
worth. 1t is not the exaggeration
of either that is at fault no one
can be too sincere, no one can be
too polite. 1t is the absence of
either that is to be deplored: yet
some will even pride themselves
upon the lack of one, as if it
showed their great loyalty to the
other.
Both the mind and body are so
constituted that they require con-
slant but varied action. Utter
idleness, of either body or mind,
unless they be in a more or less
diseased state, is not only unnec-
essary. but harmful in the extreme.
1t is habit which, once INDUCED
in, will grow upon the individual
Change of occupation for the mus
cles, change of the current of
thought for the brain. is what will
promote the fullest and most
healthful development of both.
The policy Of right-doing cannot
be doubted. Every intelligent
man and woman must see that in
nearly every instance it pays richly
and fully for whatever labor or
self-sacrifice it may involve, and
In the few cases where they cannot
see this result most of them have
sufficient faith in the law to trust
it. Yet, if this be the only motive
in action, it cannot be called right
doing in the best sense. That
which is done solely from the hope
of gain or advantage cannot be of
the highest type
These things are often unknown
to the world there is much pain
that IS quite noiseless, and vibra-
lions that make human agonies
are often mere whisper in the
roar of hurrying existence. There
are glances of hatred that stab
and raise no cry Of murder; rob-
berries that leave man or woman
forever beggared of peace and Joy,
yet kept secret by the sufferer
committed to no sound except
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