The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-10-13
A Name of Names,

"One thing is certain" an affianced
maid announced, with decision on the
eve of her wedding, my husband shall
never call me mamma He may call me
but l shall never be called mamma 1t
is a horrd, inlpersonal name'
We mammas who heard her only
smiled, and answered nothing at all, for
each of us remembered that she was
young, and that there were many,
many things that she did not know.
She did not know that when the sweet
neart had changed to the wife, and the
wife to the mother, there comes Won
drous first time. That first time that she
feels the downy head nesting under her
chin; that first time that she feels the
restless pat, pat of little feet as she
valniy tries to prison them in her hand.
she learns then that her life has burst
into a new and wonderful fullness. In
her heart there in kindled the fire of
love. and the incense that arises from it
glorities the whole atmosphere and the
warmth envelopes her and her baby in
an everlasting mantle. Then in the dim
light she sees bending over her the one
that she loves best of all, and she reach
es out her hand to him to draw him near,
that he, too, may come within the en-
chanted circle: that he, too, may breathe
the sacred incense, and be warmed bv
the heavenly fire. Laying his hand in
hers they look together into the new lit
tie face, but no word comes to express
the strange sweet feelings that are surg
ing through them both until, bending
close to her, he softly whispers, 'NIam-
ma
1t is Il baptism. All the sweet, intan-
gible things that have been filling her
being have been caught and held in that
word. The world may TEEN with mann
mas, but the name to her has new and
sacred meaning. Other names have been
given her; other promises have been made
in the swing and in the taking, but moth
ing so ,:1der. so strong, so sweet as this,
and her whole being goes out in silent
promise to live up to the sacredness of
that name.-Charlottc ". Eastman in
Woman's Home Companion.
Nervous Exhaustion Grows Out of
Worrying.
AS the psychologists have now unaui-
mcusly agreed that one of the chief caus-
es Of nervous exhaustion, Of paralysis
and kindred ills, lies in the habit of
worrying, it is a necessity to learn how
to prevent worry. If you hold your hand
directly before your eyes, you will find
that the palm alone will hinder You from
seeing all the height and breadth of Il
purple mountain side, while even Il fin
ger can obscure the sun. So, if you want
the landscape or the sun, you will remove
the hand you will close the finger.
we make bugbear Of what is very
possibly a tritlc, and we let it fret and
tease anu wear us as a rough bead wears
string. Let us in the actual beginning
take that bugbear and examine it and
pick it to pieces. Ten to one we shall
see that it is tlimsy nothing, or at
with no more effort than is possible to
us, even II not easy, whether fimsy or
otherwise. The thing to do is to look
the thing squarely in the face: to Judge
OF ITS force, and compare it with our op-
posing force; to remember then that time
ana nature are our rightful allies, and
help will come through them, although
we VIII not wait for that: and then to
bend our strength to the struggle.
II 1t IS righteous cause of worry. tho
effort to remove and overcome it will in
a great measure prevent it's injurious
physical and nervous effect, for it will
call into action another set of nerves
than those of apprehension and dread and
suplne acquiescence, and it will give us
something else to think of in the very
work the effort requires.
AS Il rule, in all warfare the attacking
party has the best Of it. The attack
gives the disposition of forces, the ad.
vantage of the field. So we will attack
our bngbear with all our powers of az
gresslon. says Harper's Bazaar. More
often than not we shall thus annihilate
him: and if not that entirely, yet in ali
probability we shall prevent him from
bringing up requirements, and shall
get away with his baggage train. And
II this attack fails, and the bugbelr re.
mains intact, then we shall have the re-
source of retreating into the walled city
of work. While we are at work, if we
90 work well, we have to think of our
work. We have no time to think of
things outside. We are protected by it as
If by walls and battlements; it shuts off
from us all the sieges and armies Of this
hostile worry.
Work, then, work, is the plan of cam
paign, and give us great armament
with which we are to meet worry. And
If we are Of those who have no work, let
us look it up; for so long as we are OH
this planet there is work to be found, it
not Of one kind, then Of another; if not
for ourselves, for those who are less for