El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-07

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born Just as ann ''Nearer my Go
to Thee leaped from the heart of "a
rab Adams. Zone Sweetly Solem
Thought" flowed from the girlhoo
heart of Phoebe Cary. See the pro
cession of noble women. Madame d.
Stael, Rosa Bonheur, Joan of Are
Jenny Lind, Mrs. Browning, Charlotte
Bronte, Amelia Edwards, Dornth!
| Wordsworth, Catherine Won Bora
! Believe in your mission! Honor YOU
womanhood. Love your life. Avail
your crown.
Be tidy in your dress. Be as neat
and pretty as possible. Untidines:
and refinement won't mix-like OF
and water. Untidiness rises to the top
If yOu lose faith in your woman hood,
you have lost your charm. Write
these four rules in your heart, for if
observed, they viii live you a charmed
second, be cheerful in disposi ton: third
be appreciative in conversation: fourth,
be quick in sympathy. Cultivate good
manners. They are passports to pal
aces. If possible spend some time away
from your home at school. You will
develop wonderfully by coming in
contact with other girls. young men,
other surroundings. Be accomplished
in music. Everybody expects a girl
to be able to play the piano. Mus ic
hath power to charm away care, make
entb usiastic the spirits. Napoleon,
Wellington-all great commanders
have found it Indispensable. Try 10
be good cOnversationalist. To listen
we'll is as great an mplishment as
to talk well. Conversation has become
one of the lost arts. Revive it. Don't
use slang. 1t is a habit that does not
belong to refinement. Hundreds who
have formed the habit would give
much if they could stop it. Be careful
say, TERRIBLY killing ''eXquisi ely
ugly" ''eXcruciatingI hungry ''di-
vine mustache." There is better
way to test a PERSONS education than
to notice the adjectives he uses. Don't
exaggerate. II has become a vice.
Never say, II just sat and melted"
''tickled to pieces, bored to death"
They mean Lhing-eXcept that you
have lost your sef control. Don't be
sarcastic A sarcastic girl can not
keep friends. Avoid punniug. 1t is
the white, the black, the poor. Don't
be proud. Guard your health as you
would your very soul.
Young women. be pure of heart.
Z eep your conscience clean. Make
distinctions as to what entertainments
you shall attend. Some of the per
'Ormances held here last winter. peo-
pie tell would make d modest man or
woman blush in the dark. They call
The ballet, art they call it stage
scenery. But it is vice, foul sewerage,
OOlluting to any on OOker. Vice dressed
up, or sung in melody is still vice. Use
your influence for good, for God.
Heart rules the world. not the intel
ect. God has given you d wealth of
heart. Use it to bring little heaven
nto weary, sad, sinful lives. Honor
;Our father and mother. Re
member the morality of a
community never rises higher than |
,he morality of the women in the com
You hold it in your power to |
'efOrm young men, to solve the tenn !
)erance question, to enobie the lives |
If young men. You set the standard |
If honor, be it low or high. Regard |
with the tenderest feelings the reli- |
zion of Jesus Christ. Before he came |
woman was a slave, a thing, mere |
Read, digest, the bio |
ived blessed lives. Get saturated by
heir spirit. Remember what Charles
Kingsley wrote to Mrs. Browning
when she asked how she could live a
ife as lovely as his. This is what he
wrote:
Sc good sweet child
let those no will, be clever.
DO noble deeds and dream not all day
long;
And so make life, and death and that
vast forever
)De grand sweet song.