San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-11


that belong to him or her exclusively.
1t is awful hard work this hot wea-
Their just to mind your own business,
and infinitely more to have to mind
the business of others. Could you on
ly come to the conclusion in you own
mind that you were not intended to
mind the affairs of others, out that you
had fulfilled the whole law in minding
your own business, would 1t not infin-
itely relieve your mind. Just think
what a release it is not to be response
BILE for others. What a comfort to
feel that you are not made their
guardians at law or in morals. How
comforting on one Of these hot days
to shut yourself in your cabinet and
shut out the world and its worldly trou-
bles and feel yourself responsible for
nothing outside your own door.
AS you grow to realize this you will
begin to kick yourself for ever being
such a fool as to think that you were
created to run the universe. What
matters it to you IL Susan Jane is keep
ing company with Charles Augustus,
and that Tom Twiddler was out blk
ing with Seraphina Sphinx until mid
night one night last week. What pa
pers have you to show for your con-
Germ over them? Who made you the
Ecclesiastical authority to judge of the
preachers orthodoxy? BY what right
human or divine do you enquire into
the private affairs of Mrs. Dash, who
has separated from her husband?
Your rights end with your back yard
fence and at the sidewalk line front
of your door.
The more people know the less they
NEEDLE. The more they think the less
they gossip. An empty mind the old
proverb says is the Devils workshop.
Winding other peoples buiness was in
vented by Satan to keep people from
minding their own. No one knows
better than the Devil himself what
means of grace Winding your own bus
mess is. 1t beats minister and church
and priest and prayer book and the
contribution box and the dime society
whole. No one yet ever entered
the doors of perdition because they
minded their own business. This
of itself is worth a patent right title
to salvation. Just think Of 1t, no one
ever went wrong in this world from
the days of Adam until now because
they minded their own business.
There is then nothing of more impor-
lance than to know what is your bust
ness. Nothing so easy, nothing so
hard. Easy because it shuts you out
from all that is injurious to you and
shuts you up to only that which, is
yours personally. Hard, because your
relations are to some extent with 9TH
ers and to that extent their business
is in some sort your own. Still there
are broad marks, clear lines of denmark
alton that cannot be mistaken. The
personal habits, thoughts, ideas, be-
liefs, homes, families of others are be-
yond the pale of your inquisition.
Even in your own family you are not
at liberty to NEEDLE more than a de-
cent regard for the welfare of all con-
cerned will allow you.
The meddling of the husband with
the affairs of the wife and of the wife
with those of her husband are i'll
bred meddlings, and are the fruitful
source of domestic infelicity, Earrings
that descend to quarrels and finally
separation and divorce. There are
rights that husband and wife have
beyond the other and which neither il
| justified in nleddiirS 4SftiI. Much
more then is he a fool who would
NEEDLE between husband and wife. To
him the crown of thorns and the
| broomstick are natural destiny. When
husbands and wives will credit each
other with common sense and leave
them to their own personal privacy
then will divorces decrease and domes-
tic trouble grow beautifully less with
the ages.
1t is in the meddling with children
! that otherwise judicious people show
their lack of sense. Your neighbor
resents your meddling with him and his
| and calls you to book. A spirited wife
can make it exceedingly interesting
for the hubby who interferes with her
in the matters that are purely her own
| concern. A man with the proper spirit
will soon sit down on the wife of his
bosom who tries to run him accord
ing to her own program. A child has
no recourse against parents who med
die with him. 1t is done all the time
and is the most cruel of all the med
dlesomeness that is seen under the
sun. Children have rights as personal
and as sacred as the great Universal
ruler who made them under their pres
ent constitution of mind and moral
nature. But of this next Sunday.