Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-02-19
THE SERIOUS SIDE OF LIFE.

THE SERIOUS SIDE OF LIFE. |
Sometimes when we are app
pealed to by young girls regard
ing the serious side of their flu
ture life, we feel that we would
like to be able to conduct them
to that mother who once talked
to us of the future, and planned
work, duty and pleasure that she
was destined never to enter into
With us. Elizabeth Start
Phelps, whom all women read
ers know to be a wise counselor,
gives her views on this subject
in such brisk, helpful language
that we can do no better than to
quote from her, trusting that
what she says may be as useful
to the thousands of readers who
will read it, as it has been to
the one that repeats it for their
benefit:
Girls, first made up your
mind that you will be something.
All the rest will follow. What
YOU shall be comes more easily
and clearly in due time.
"a girl of IS cannot decide
with any discretion or any as
surance whether she will be a
sculptor or washerwoman, a
farmer or poet: but she can de>
eide distinctly whether it IS her
wish or duty, after leaving
school or college, to remain de-
pendent upon her parents or to
fit herself for a self-provided lite.
1.-The education by which you
mean to get your bread and but
ter, your gloves and bonnets, is a
very different affair from that
which you take upon yourself as
an ornament and an interval III
life. The chemical experiment
which you may some day have
to explain to pupils of your own
is quite another thing from the
lesson that you may never think
of again. The practice in book
keeping, which they sometimes
regulate your dealing with live
flesh and blood customers, be-
comes as interesting as a new
story. The dull old 1dles tor
infiction and enunciation fairly
turn into poetry if you hope to
find yourselfa great public read
CT some coming day. And the
very saWdust of the French or
Latin grammar becomes ashes
of roses to the stout little fancy
that dreams of brave work and
big salary in some foreign de-
partment at Washington, or
tutoring girls or boys for college.
All over the terrible ocean,
among the lawless sailors, the
men with wives and children to
work for are those who lead the
gentlest and cleanest lives. SO.
on the great ocean of school life.
the girls with aims to study tor
are those whose labor is the rich
est and ripest. All, you will
never realize till you have tried
it, what an immense power over
the life is the power OF possess
ing distinct aims.
"The voice, the dress, the
look, the very motion of a person
define and alter, When he or she
begin to live for reason.
fancy that I can select in g
crowded city the busy, blessed
women who support themselves
They carry themselves with al
air of conscious self-respect anc
se1f>content which shabby
alpaca cannot hide, nor rich
silk enhance, nor even sickness
or exhaustion quite drag out. -
STATE OF OHIO, Cry OF TOLEDO, &C
LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK J. CHESEY makes oath tina
he is the senior partner of the firm O
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., doing business il
the CITY Of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid and that said firm will pay
the sum Done HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case Of CATARRH
that cannot be Cnred by the use O
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of Decem
Der, A. d. 1886.
.-- A. W. GAEAoo~'