The herald., 1897-06-16

In school or out. A strong head and a
sound heart will give one the very best
out of life wherever he may be, for with
| the strong head should come self-control,
and that is, l believe, the one great OBJ
| ject to work for. Let this be your first
| watchword.
by way Of adjusting yourself to your
new surroundings, suppose you take an
honest inventory of your mental anu
moral furnishings Having looked at
them in good, strong light, render to
yourself an itemized account, somewhat
like this, for instance: Kindliness.
thoroughness, candor, conscience, sense
Of honor, common sense, enthusiasm la
illness, egotism, selfishness, insincerity.
vanity. Out of hundred parts assign
yourself, fairly, so many of each adding
such others as the case seems to you
to require; find the total; balance the
account, and face the fact. If you are 50
unfortunate as to be bored, be polite
enough to suppress the fact. Cultivate
faith in something and enthusiasm for
something Have ideals of manhood ami
womanhood. and hold to them. If your
ideals should not be realized immedi-
ately, nevertheless keep up your courage
and wait If they should never be re-
allied, do not therefore wrap about some
feeble man with the glories that you
wish he had. Commonplaceness is
sometimes a blessing, but call 1t COM
monplaceness-do not idealize 1t.
Choose one thing that you can prob
ably learn to do better than anything
else, and master it thoroughly, till 1t
may be a dependence If you should need
it, At this end of the century We in
America should have something to cling
to. Helpless men and incapable women
seem weaker and more pitiful than ever
in the midst of the complications that
bubble and seethe around the high tide
mark, nineteen hundred. If you are go
ing to keep house, don't look with con-
tempt upon your own kitchen. If you
are going to teach, don't insist upon
beginning with elocution and literature.
If you are going into society, don't de-
termine to be entertaining and popular
and so on through the catalogue, all in
day. Take care Of each days details
and housekeeping, literature and popu-
larity will take care of themselves. Re-
GREETING Is but fretting. and it is in such
soil that weeds generate. A longing to
be famous has made many a woman in
famous. and it is true that Fame usually
comes to those who are thinking about
something else.
Reduce everything to its lowest
terms. Hold fast to so much arithmetic
at least. The woman of nerve is better
than the woman of nerves, is an epigram
that all women would Go we'll to cher
ish. Avoid emotionalism. Simplify al
ways, rather than elaborate. Sink not
into the rank and file of womankind,
but simply stand for honor and sin
cerity. Do not let your tools rust through
disuse. Read think, work as we'll as
play. To everybody, perhaps, the next
thing to clean morals is good manners
The Indian who wears his blanket with
self-possession and dignity is more to
be envied than the man who is dwarfed
by his own carriage and footman"
Mrs. Caswell closed her address, that
was fraught all through with close wo-
manly sympathy and tender motherly
advice, with these words: Sometimes
in that prosaic future now clothed with
the mantle of beauty and mystery, let
my voice. laden with these words, linger
in your ears: A strong head, a sound
heart, sturdy self-control. and above
all and through all. simplicity"
Calling each of the graduates by