The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-07-30

Give me no strong, swift wings
OF eagle, or of dove!
Mine be the humber heart that sings
Amid all sweet and homelY things,
And clear, and free, its music filings,
Nesting beside the hidden springs
OF loyalty and love.
For me, no hand of might,
TO batter down the wrong!
Fain would I, rather, keep the light
OF willing service burning bright,
Make glad the day, serene the night,
With faith answering point the right
To those who shall be strong
No lonely glories, mine,
Cold stars that cannot warm!
Iclaim the heritage divine
OF those who pour their life like wine,
That other lives may fruit, and shine,
Rich clusters on the ripening vine
Brave beacons mid the storm.
Nor laurel crown, nor bay,
NV deep desire can fill!
But that at last, when dies the day,
Leal men, and pure in heart, may say,
"Our mother armed us for the fray;
Her love, uudaunted, led the way,
Her love shall lead us stIll."
Mrs. a. d. II. WHITNEY.
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The Turning Point i" Many u GIRLS Life.
A GIRL reaches one of the most inn
portant times of her life when, with
her school days behind her, she
steps out upon the threshold of a
new phase of life. What is she to
do? She has the power of knowl-
edge within her. How will she use
it? 1t is not an easy decision this.
Confusing doubts, contention of
feelings, meet her at every turn.
And they are strange to her. At
school or college her life was
symmetrically planned for her.
Each day had its prescribed studies
and duties, and the twenty-four
hours moved along with easy pre-
cision. Now it is different. The
home, when she returns to it, seems
lege halls. The life of her parents
seems IA bit precise and circum-
scribed compared to the hours of
girlish comprehensive in college.
She feels Just little shut in,
cramped. She longs to put her
knowledge to some use. But in
what direction? How? Common
duties seem hardly worthy of herl
Home relations offer her no scope.
Surely she must not shut her learn
ing up in a cage? Naturally, use
fulness in the outer world suggests
itself to her. a career becomes her
thought and desire.
1t is a noble trait in girl, when,
returning home from college, she
realizes the necessity for bread
winning, and feels impelled to put
her knowledge to use for the benefit
of those who have, perhaps, denied
themselves much that she might
profit. Under such conditions a girl
has not much choice. Her duty is
very clear to her. But where the
desire for career opens itself be-
fore a girl from simply m absorbing
ambition, then it is that the road
opens before her, and two diverging
paths appear. The desire to do
something in the world is ever
laudable. But sometimes young
woman i apt to miscOnstrue the
something and to see the wrong
world For ali of us have two
worlds in our lives; our own world
and world outside of us. Often
our own world seems small to us,
and we do not see it i'm the tiercer
light of the larger world outside OF
Us. And here, unless she is very
careful, the young woman just out
of college, and standing on the
threshold of a new life, may make
her gravest Observation-Disclosures Home
journal.
Ambition, as Miss Brown very
wisely says-and she speaks entirely
to young women-is in many ways
the most deadly foe to young
womans character. An intellectual
ambition draws many girl away
from her true place in life, and
makes of her cold, unloved and
unhelpful woman, instead of a joy
Gus, affectonate and unselfish bless
ing to home and friends. We need
not try to annihilate ambition, this
writer goes on to say in her clear
way, but let us keep it within
bounds let us see to it that it holds
just proportion to our lives. We
need not let our talents lie idle, non
neglect to make the most of them
there is place and grand work
for them all. But let us keep then
development forever subordinate tC
simple human duties, usually to be