The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-12-03

If all the ships / have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
All, well! the harbor could not hold !
SO many sails as there would be
If all my ships came in from sea.
If half my ships came home from sea,
And brought their precious freight to
me,
All, we'll! 1 should have wealth as
great
As any king who sits in state
so rich the treasures that would be
In ha'f my ships now out at sea.
If Just one ship have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
All, well! the storm clouds then might
frown
For if the Others all went down,
Still rich and proud and glad I'd be
If that one ship came back to me.
If that one ship went down at sea
And all the others came To me,
Weighed down with gems and wealth
untold,
With glory, honor, riches, gold,
The poorest soul on earth I'd be
If that one ship came not to me.
oh skies be calm! o winds blow free
Blow all my ships safe home to me.
But if thou sendest some a-wrack
To never more come sailing back,
Send any-all, that skim the sea,
But bring my love-ship home to me.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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American Women Practice Economy.
The American woman who earns
her daily bread is better dressed
than women of like position in 9TH
er countries. Some think she is too
careful about her appearance, but [
do not think she can be. The
French girl who earns and buys her
own clothes will inves. in finery
that an American girl would abhor
as shoddy, and the English girl of
the same class is apt to care little or
nothing for graceful and pleasing
appearance. Her clothes may be of
good stuff, but there is lack of
feminine grace about her that i'm
mediately impresses the American
woman uncomfortably.
can woman's ability to curb extrava-
gance can be afforded than the re-
view of the ways of the women of
the south since the days of the war.
With plenty suddenly swept away,
few, If any. spent time in repining
that there was little left and many
to use that for. Household expenses
were cut down to a nicely, but II
was impossible for a stranger to no.
tice where the pinching was done,
so cleverly was it managed, and so
cleverly is it managed by many OF
those same women up to to-day.
Knowing the depleted fortunes, the
outsider might have easily believed
that it meant extravaganza to main
tain the household in the comfort
that had belonged to it of old, but
the women folk knew the hard and
unselfish work that it cost to do so
If you want to please the Ameri-
can man, set him down In home
where there Is woman who will
see to it that money and nothing
that money buys goes to waste. All
economical woman can reform an
eXtravagant man. She has often sci
out to do this, and has accomplished
it, but who knows of man that
feels it his duty to reform an eXtrava'
CANT woman? Poor fellow, he &C
cepts it as his duty to let her spenC
money in any way she likes as long
as the money lasts, and then, Otter
with signs and tears when his for
tune is all gone, complains, ii no
aloud, then to himself, that ian Elk
travagant woman has done it," and
the. world is quite ready to sid
with him.
1t has never occurred to him tina
he might have reformed her. May
be the task would have been hare
one, but here is "tipn for hi
brothers. A woman likes to b.
humored, and only one woman OF
say, a thousand will tell you whel
you are humoring her too much
Every woman accepts it as he
birthright to have the best there |
in the world to be brought and laiC
at her feet by the man who love
her, whether it is father or brothe
or husband. If she is blessed witt
an unselfish disposition, this natura
inclination is tempered. But un
selfshness is the heritage of but tn
few. The most of us need educating
along that line.-Margaret Hanni
in st. Louis Republic.