Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-01-05
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY EMO.


The fault must lie there; for you have no
cares no anXieti.s no regrets. What
privileges YOU have 10 make you happy!
A home with all its comforts, leisure Tor
sport, holidays and merry akinss. Even
your school Is made attractive, and learn
ing easy. Ask your fathers how lessons
were t hrashed into them, how hard and
monotonous were their school-days, and
then contrast your Own advantages no"
grand, too, is your health You cannot
even realize he sadness and gloom OF the
sick room, the WEAKNESS of the dyspeptlc,
the hopelessness of the invalid
A happy New Year to you, girls and
maidens. You and the boys have equal
rights to happiness; but remember yours
are "woman's rights hope you will be
strong supporters OF woman's rights, and
the equality of man aud woman. But do
not forget that equality does not neces-
sarily imply identity. You have the
right to learn all that the boys learn at
school, to exercise your bodies as they ex-
ercise theirs, to travel, and observe, and
work, and rest they do. But, though
women, lest forgetting the distinction
Nature herself has made, you gain more
than your rights and lose all your priv
ileges.
So, may this year be happy for you;
happy because you realize that you are
women, and that, like the killful general,
you may win fun many fight in which
you handle neither sword nor gun.
A fruitful New Year to all youths + GU
are fortunes favorltes. On you she
showers her choicest gifts. You have the
heart of n child aud he " iii OF man. Days
full OF innocent happiness are behind you
Myriad pleasures open around .Sou.
Golden visions lie before you. Hope rests
upon your head; love is Ia your eyes;
courage in your breast; the world is at
your feet, and for ou there stretches now
an opening century.
So may this yetH be happy to you, hap
Ply, because your eyes are clear to recog-
nize your many gifts; happy that passion
does not weaken your heart nor .ction
hold you back from high enprise; happy
in your rich inheritance OF life, and in the
wIsd IN not to waste its < Tor ious fullness.
4 pros porous New Year to YOU fathers!
You have thought your itiduaiity
worth perpetuatIng, and have won an at
tribute whose name belongs to God Him
self. You are an autOcrat. Wistful eyes
watch your every look and word, and
eager minds strive to mould themselves
clu ha. I.,1
for yourself earthly immortality, a
second self to take up your ambition and
carry on your works OF good or evil.
SO, may this year be happy to you
happy, because you have had courage to
undertake responsibility, and confidence
in your worth and in your good inten-
tions
\ bright New Year to you, mothers.
Consciously or uncohs ciously, you have
made the great sacrifice. You have risked
pain, aorrow, anxiety and death itself,
in the sacred hope OF a Hebrew mother,
that to you may fail the honor OF bring
ing into the world some prince Of peace.
That sacrifice dedicat ion. 70;
are priestess forever.
So, ray this year be happy to you;
happy in the knowledge OF your high
calling; happy in the discharge of its
holy duties; happy in the hope that your
constant care may furnish to the world Il
being worthy to hand on the torch OF
lofty deeds; happy in the thought that
you have forged another link in the chain
of love, whose clasp is held by God.