The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-11

you know Of any one who would do -
much? Again and again she has al-
ready endangered that life during six
weeks of diphtheria or scarlet fever,
and she never once brought mp tho
question of whether she had better
stay, breathing day and night the con-
tagion. The graveyards are full o.
mothers who died taking care OF their
children. Better appreciate your
mother before your appreciation
OF her will be no kindness 70
her, and the post-mortem regrets
will be moro 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 q garland
OF whitest roses from the conserva-
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 ccme-
teries.
Advice the fourth: Allow no time
to pass without Frightening ones lie.
Within FIVE minutes walk of you there
is some one in tragedy compared
with which Shakspeare's King Lear or
Victor Hugo's Jean Vatican has no
power. Go out and brighten some-
body's life with q cheering word, or
smile, or a flower. Take good
book and read 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
so,ae one happy for ten minutes. II for
no longer q time. A young woman
bound on such mission, what might
she not accomplish. Oh, there are
thousands of these manufacturers OF
sunshine. They are Kings Daugh-
tiers" whether inside or 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 q
young woman who feels she has such
a mission with one who lives round
Of vanities, card case in hand calling
on people for whom she does not
care. except for soma social adj
vantage. and insufferably bored when
hA L. ~
look young after they are old, and livs
ing life of insincerity and hollow
ness. and dramatixation and sham.
Young woman! live to make others
happy and you will be happy. Live
for yourself and you will be misera-
bic. There never has been an exccp-
tion to the rule; there never will b
an exception
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life
on big scale, whether you are
farmers daughter, or shepherdess
among the hills. or the dattered pet of
drawing room filled with statuary.
and pictures, and bric-a-brac-
Stop where you are and make q
plan for your lifetime. You can
not be satisfied with life OF
frivolity, and giggle, and indireotion.
Trust the world. and 1t will cheat you
If it does not destroy you. The Re-
doubtable was the name Of an enemyss
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-
Hest weapon. Be = Gods woman.
This moment make as mighty =
change as did a college student Of En-
gland. He had neglected his studies,
rioting at night with dissipated conn
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
young man / am speaking Of
had arisen from his pillow, and said
to him "Paley, you are a fool! You
are wasting your opportunities. DJ
not throw away your life" Paley
said that / lay in bed until had
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 Q resolution definitely placed
changed young man from q reckless
and time-wasting student to . conses
Grated man who stopped not until all
time and all eternity shall be debtor
TO his pen and influence.
|. Young womenl draw out, and decide
what you will be, and do. God help
ing. Write it out in plain hand. not
like the letters which Josephine res
ceived from Napoleon in Italy, the
writing so scrawling and scattered that
it was sometimes taken as . map Of
the seat of war. Put the plan on tho
wsll Of your room. or write it in thd
opening of blank book, or put Il
where you will be compelled often IA
see 1t. A thousand questions Of your'
coming life you can not settle now,
but theresfs one question you can settle
independent of man, woman, angel
and devil, and that is that you will ba
Gods woman now, henceforth and
forever. Clasp hands with tho
Almighty. Pythagoras represented
life by the letter Y, because 1t easily
divides into two ways. Look ont for
opportunities Of cheering, inspiring,
rescuing and saving ell the people you
can. Make q league with the Etorni-