The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

When we ran ABBOTT the braes,
scarcely can keep my winkers dry
| At the thoughts o. hygnne days!
The letter 1t scents o summer flowers,
| And the saul seas caller air.
| My heart gaes back to the twilight O0rs,
That Maggie an spent there!
Chorus.
The best ane "a I gat the day;
1t made me sac happy an glad;
1t told O. ship that Said away
WI a lassie to meet her lad!
Moo. I maun ava to meet my ain!
My Maggie frae over the sea!
III marry her 200, an aye be fain,
For she n; has been true to me!
New York Home Journal
The Woman with a Mission.
1t is surprising to know how many
women there are with deep and burn
ing interest in Humanity with big H.
Individual humanity, us represented by
those who have direct claims upon them,
does not interest them in the least. Their
own husbands, their own children. do not
appeal to them, and they nave but Il Ian
guild interest in their own homes. The
writer was visited one day recently by a
humanitarian of this tyne Her mission
was the uplifting of all humanity. She
had, she said. consecrated her life to that
end. During her call she revealed the
tact that she was 1000 miles from her
husband and five children. They could,
she affirmed, get along nicely without
her. and she felt that she could do Il
TAR greater and nobler work for human
lty by working for this glorious cause of
temperance This was her mission. 1t
mad been but week since l had met the
mother of>several small children who was
trying to "uplift humanity" by going
ABOUT a orsa AMI clubs for the develop
ment OF The New Thought After
listening for nearly an hour to an outline
OF the plans and purposes of this "New
thought scheme [ was more than ever
convinced that old thoughts are best,
particularly the thoughts of our grand
mothers regarding the first duty of Il
wife and mother.
There is much of exaggeration and
cheap wit in the comic papers regarding
the neglect of their homes and families
by the new women" who have branched
out INTO fields heretofore occupied by men
alone. n good deal of the criticism of the
new woman is unfair and unjust, but
tn TACT remains that the woman with a
mission is in many cases a woman with
painfully distorted views regarding the
HMty she owes to herself and to others
me writer not long ago heard a woman,
addressing large gathering of people,
II have given up my home and chill
|
forth and spread abroad the glorious Cos
PEI ana to try to win men and women to
CHRIST: My life henceforth is to be de-
voted to God and humanity"
Inc question naturally arises: Can a
Wlfe and mother devote herself to ally
thlng higher, or better, or nobler, than
the proper training of her own children:
ana does not her duty to her children.
her husband, and her home, transcend
any duty she may owe to others?
Inc enthusiast may say no to these CUES
| tlons, out every true and loving wife and
mother will say yes to both questions.
when woman has home and children,
no call to duty is higher or more impe~;,-
tive than the call that comes to her from
her own home, and in no sphere can she
do greater or better work The good
she might do elsewhere cannot be offered
as an excuse for the neglect of those who
have the first claim on her love and care.
1t is sometimes true that love of no
| torlety and an overpowering desire to be
seen and heard is the chief motive of the
woman with mission.-J. l.. III. in Les
lies Weekly.
| Dignity in Old Fashioned Names.
| To older people no other vagary of very
young girls is more amusing than their
| penchant for urg ling changes on their
Christian names. It is no uncommon
thing to find that the little girl you have
known as Sallie, has returned from
boarding school and expects to be adj
dressed by the romantic and Byronic-
sounding appella ton of Saidee, while I'M
numbered Malvinas have been metamor-
phosed into Malvines, and plain Maria
DISCUSSES and Frenchifes herself into
Marie. Others satisfy their love of van
ity by introducing queer spelling into
their names, and the accounts of balls
and parties attended by Maymycs and
Caryolyns and others of their kind add a
humorous flavor to the society column.
There is always a great deal in Il name
to girl. She never quite understands
why her mother named her after her
grandmother in preference to Lady
Claires or Gwendolyns, or Beaulans Of
high-hown novels, and the diminutives
she adds to her name is merely a Mari.
! Tapley effort to be as romantic as she can
under creditable circumstances.
Girls who bemoan the unpoctical taste
of their parents in the matter of names
may take comfort from the thought that
they are not so bad off as they might be.
The Indian girls of the Crow agency
| boarding school, in Montana gave Il
newspaper account mentioned the follow
ing young ladies as having been present:
Misses Clara Spotted Horse, Edith Long
Ear, Kittie Medicine, Lena Old-Bear.
Clara Bull-Nose, Blanche Little-S Star,
Nellie Mark-on-the-Neck, Mary Old-Jack-
R Rabbit, Bertha p,o Big:Moqth K2tie
se Grook ey art5a ssS
Isabel Lunch, Floy Hairy Wolf, Lucy
Hawk, Beatrice Beads on-Ankle, Maggie
Broken-Arm. Anna Medicine-Pipe Helen
Come Out-of-Fog, Sarah Three Horns,
Ida Wrinkle-Face, Jessie Flat-Head, Lot
tie Mothers Knife, Esther
and "others''
Fortunately, we are far too wise to
make our names descriptive, as is the
custom of the untutored savage. Our
daisies and lilies and roses are merely
flights of fancy, and have no reference
whatever to any resemblance between the
person and the flower whose name they
bear. Indeed, there seems a fatal persist
ency with which lilies are dark and sal
low, and roses are thin and scrawny and
colorless, while the name of Daisy, in
stead OF bringing to our mind the sweet,
sly maiden who should typify the modest
Wayslde flower, has come to be almost {,
| term of reproach.
Of course one likes to think there should
be an appropriateness in names. and it
must be a grieyous trial to a poetic maid
en- to be called Hannah or Sarah when
she would rejoice in being a Beatrice Or
lnez, but fancy what CONSERVATION it
would create if we should adopt the SIM
pie device of the Indians and name a girl
from some marked characteristic How
would it seem to read that Miss Lulu
Been-Out-T hree-Seasons attended the
bride to the altar, or that Mamie Chew
Cum gave pink tea, or Carrie Progress
slve-Euchre won the card prize or that
Mrs. Bony-Neck occupied her box at the
opera?
On the whole, it is best to let well
enough alone, and be satisfied with plain,
honest, everyday names, that at least
carry no invidious criticisms concealed
about Philadelphia Times.
The Soothing Power of Work.
When an excitable child has nothing
more to do all day long than play, the lit
tie fancy and imagination spend them
selves in ceaseless change. But if Il little
real work be given, the tiny mind must
hold itself steady in order to accomplish
the task, and during the brief period the