The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11

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And the meadow lark on the old rail fence
To lie on the south hill slope and dream
., wonderful dreams that never come
true;
Then home to the kitchen, cool and wide
Where Grandma's caraway cookies grew
O, heart Of mine tits weary way
From the c'ty's streets to the meadows
From the clearer vision of manhoods years
70 youths y,n: sweet dreams on the south hill
So fur from the ways that bruise the feet
To the grassy paths that my childhood
knew,
Where Grandma's caraway cookies grew.
Florence a. Jones In Good Housekeeping.
Troubles Made by Tattliag Tongues.
"The friends thou hast and their affect
ton tried grapple to thy soul with hooks
Of STEEL" I wonder how many friend
ships have been broken, and how many
lives spoiled. by the tales that are borne
| and the little faith there is to withstand
| them?
"Once upon a time" says an old Ger
| man story, there lived in village a
woman who had careless tongue. She
| gossiped and tattled until she had made
people unhappy. Then her conscience
smote her and she repented, and went to
the parson to confess and be forgiven.
| Telling all her faults and foolish talk,
the things have said?' The parson told
| her to get bag of feathers and walk
from her house to the church, scattering
| handfuls as she went. Arriving, the par
son said: Now go back along the path
and pick up all the feathers oh, but
could never do that; they are borne away
on the wind so it is with the harmful
words; they cannot be recalled; you can
only guard your tongue in the future"
There is, in my opinion, but one worse
person than the one who says a hateful
thing, and that is the one who repeats it.
The original remark MAY have been
made thoughtlesSy and without malice;
sometimes from an irritated mood, and
is more than likely to be regretted be-
fore it has gone far on it's way. But the
woman or man who bears the unkind
message is wholly cruel and malicious,
and can have no place in the society
Of gentlefolk, says the Chicago Times
Herald: Good manners reflect good
principles, and etiquette is to ethics but
the outward and visible form of the in
ward and spiritual grace
| y wise man | know has said that he
would never take the word of one who
brought to him disagreeable tale, for
that same person would as likely bear
q false story.
The man or woman who willingly and
wantonly makes people unhappy and
Stlrs up trouble has none of the milk of
human kindness, and is besides so
coarsely bred that he or she would fit
better into a place in the servants
quarters and might then be out of
place.
A village gossip or a scandal-monger
anywhere must jar upon the nerves Of
decent folk, and will be hated and
fort and peace of mind. Cleopatra
strangled the wretched messenger who
brought the news Of Anthony's infdel-
lty, and think every one has something
Of that feeling toward the one that
wounds us with the knowledge of some
thlng that proves, or seems TO prove, Il
friends disloyalty, or any of the petty
things that make us no better nor wiser,
but only hurt.
Even if one feels the desire to en-
tighten another with unpleasant informa-
tion, or labors under the mistaken notion
of duty to a friend, resist it and keep
silent. No good can come, much harm
may, and, all principle aside, one will
instantly become one of that class scath-
ingly denoted by the French, 'canaille. -
| She's Away from Homc.
Sins of omission and sins of commits
sion are variOusly aScribed to the sum-
mer girl. She is called a flirt and CO.
quette. while sometimes even that really
detestable adjective EAST is applied to
her, with what an aftermath of injury
can hardly be reckoned.
OF course the summer girl is only the
winter girl in a flimsy disguise, neither
more nor less frivolous nor more nor
less harmful, the chief difference be-
tween the two being that the former is
usually away from homeland there's
the rub! There is probably hardly one
Of us, in strange place and surrounded
by people who are eager for fun, who
will not do great many things that be
doing at home. Many times these are
innocent, if undignifed and hoydenish
escapades, but ones which may easily be
contorted by the uncharitable observer
into little less than crimes, says the
Baltimore News.
leash of conventionality when in a
strange place and to have a rollicking
time, with a dash of bravado thrown in
that one cannot wonder that it results
later in Il wagging of tongues and an
ominous shaking of heads and lifting OF
scandal has just been launched upon the
troublous sea Of society. And the world
is so small that this particular tidbit is
sure to reach the ears of the very per.
sons whom more than all others the
heroine is anxious it should not; then the
result is distressing out of all proper.
ton to the occasion that started the ball
rolling.
Not long ago the girls who were stay
ing at a summer hotel near a country
town came down, and, In the vernacular
took the village. They held up the
driver of load Of hay, clambered ia
the top of it and rode through the streets
CANT. After they had released the be-
wildered farmer from durance vile they
went into each store on the main street
asking for absurd articles and gayly guy
ing the clerks. They swarmed into the
drug store and insisted upon drawing
their own sodawater, and generally scan
dalize,d the villagers, and the city people
whom talked. freely about the aft mir, ex.
aggerating the details, but getting the
names of the participants with great ex.
actness the better to tell about it. OF
course, all the young women were great.
~ surprised when the story in revised
form drifted to, their ears to find how it
One does feel grateful sense of re-
lief at getting away from the conven-
tional "don'ts' Of the season Of balls
and teas, and receptions but In the In:
terests Of the preservation of that deli
cate thing, woihan's reputation, the
latitude allowed should not be too great
nor the fun too fast nnd furious.
The Young Housekeeper.
'"I,he true advice to give d young, rest
less housekeeper is to put more mind into
her work; to find in her daily occupation
studies interesting and important, which
will surely conduce to her own benefit o.
well as to the we'll being of her house.
hold writes Katharine Roich in the La
dies Home Journal "She may easily fill
her mind with the annoyances, the dis.
agreeable and monotonous details, the
confinement the Interruptions of the
daily life, but by intelligent use of her
time, by !systematizing her work, by sim.
plifying her manner of life, aud by reso-
lutely. Selling her opportunities she will
lind time for favorite studies and for in.
forests outside of home Let a woman
grid up her intellect and courage-she
needs both-to the high office she accents,
Let her not he anxious hut choorf,,J