San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-04

| are we unconscious Of his presence
is the problem of our misery or happi
| ness. The practical side of the queS
| ton is to understand early in life the
! character of that self we are doomed
to carry with us through existence
and the best means of making the
most of our perpetual company
While love is blind, according to the
poets. he is as sharp a little yOungstel
as ever shot an arrow at a susceptible
heart. Love is quick eyed. Love
does see, but for the love it bears
closes its eyes and forbears to crit
else. None the less it is true that
love, wise lOve,sees more than the
Sharpest eyes of hate that ever glared
on victim.
What sort of a fellow would you
choose for your best friend, lover,
companion, intimate, If the choice
We're yours, young woman? What
sort of girl would you choose TO
be your inseparable company, young
MANI Think a moment. One from
whom not night nor day, at home or
abroad, asleep or awake, in sickness
or in health, in your meanness as in
your goodness, would you be for one
instant in all the afterward of time re-
leased. Is it not worth your while
to think of the kind of COM
paniOn that you would choose if choice
were yours? And if choice were not
yours would not the necessity of hav-
ing such a companion make you SER
ious? If you could mould that COM
panion to your wish, and make him or
her according to order would you do
the making thOughtlessly?
Not if you were wise, would you lay
Il finger thOughtlessly on the life that
was TO go through all the afterward
of time with you, to bless or curse,
make or mar. help or hinder, enrich or
impOverish that life of yours. To
certain extent you have this power
over your chosen associates. and to
an uncertain extent you have it over
that unChOSen associate, yourself,
whom you must accept all your life
as an inseparable thing. All the pow
cr of the church and all the might of
the infinite cannot grant you absOlu-
ton from yourself. You can get rid
of an unwelcOme associate. or friend,
or wife. or child. but not of yourself.
1 mere Is uO way huONn vi tdlt III W
which man or woman can get rid of
themselves. not if they kill them
selves.
What more beautiful description is
there in the books than this OF the IN
finite presence. IF | ascend up into
Heaven thou art there. If l make my
bed in hell thou art there. If | take
the wings of the morning and dwell
in the uttermOSt parts of the sea,
even there shall thy hand lead me
and thy right hand shall hold me-"
This is the truth as to the presence of
the steady company, yourself, from
whom there is no power to escape. Be
loved. it is wisdom to make the very
best possible kind of a self out of
that self whose company we must
atcrnally endure. Why spend so much
thought about the character of the
Ohter fellows or girls or wives or hus-
bands from whom the divorce courts
and our own will can deliver us, and
so little over the one from whom there
is no getting free?
Think of it. Here | am on my own
hands. | must eat with myself. sleep
with myself, travel with myself, hunt
and fish and labor and wait and swear
and pray and 20 to church and get
drunk and gamble and give aims and
cheat and sing and slave and do all
things at all times all where's and do
it with myself. The only time tina!
can escape myself is when l ar
asleep. if | do then. and there is no
respite in it. for | do not know 1t.
Why do we take - much thought
about the girl we areDtO marry ANA so
little about the man who is to marry
her. Or on the other hand, why DO we
lay ourselves out as girls to catch the
most eligible young man in our set
and take so little trouble to catch our
selves and see that we are worth more
than he is?
Steady company is what you are tied
to from the cradle to the grave.
Steady company is what you are in
troduced to as soon as consciousness
comes to you as a babe. Steady com
pany is what you are counting
every hour and moment of every day
Of life. No matter how unsteady that
company may be in heart or legs, in
habits or character or in anything else
it is as steady as your shadow, and
like your shadow it takes form from
your own body and mind and brains
and beauties and defOrmitieS. There
is not a girl or boy in all the world
who cannot boast of steady company
in this thing. \ shadow will vanish if
there is no sun, but this company of
yourself stays with you till the end
Your best fellow, who stays till the
morning light is breaking in the east,
goes at last, but yourself stays and
never goes. Happy is that boy or girl
or man OF woman whose self is such
rs he or she does not desire to get
rid of.
UVALDE COUNTY.