The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
MIDSUMMER MUSIC

Oh, hear the blithe humhle-hee booming
His trail In the garden ribbon of song;
He drifts from the porch to the trim holly
Then pauses awhile on the rose tree to rock
= a j He tasses and tumbles IT.
About in the sun,
! * ?, and hazzesE ansa hnnhles %1s@t
E His heart fult OF fun; - -
Then ont OF the garden he zwhlrls on his
To frolfc and frisk with the hreezes at play.
Oh hear the say hohoink carol in gter.
Or eircling about IN n dream of delight
Where cloyer-seas dimplc IN crimson and
No care his heart troubles:
With rapture he hrims,
While mNdly he bubbles.
With song us he skins
Across the green field and the swift-tash
Whose gold hearted lilies in peace dip and
dream
Oh. hear the red squirrel that gamhol: care,
And chatters way up III the hickory tree.
oerjoyed as the cricket whose notes rise
As shriily he ffes in the messy stone WALL
The wind IN songs titting-
- The tree-toad In vain
Is raSping and splitting
The welkin for rain.
While. eaf-screenetl, the locust In sharp and
III u&t
Sounds loud the tara of his rat-tat-tat
Oh. midsummer's mustc's supreme in the
1t laughs In the rillet and lisps in the reed,
1t rustles and ripples and romps in the
leaves.
1t sobs in the rain, in the wArlwind 1t
The bright darodiNy
1t lures to repOSe:
/ 1t signs in the lily,
And dreams in the rose.
While haunting the hooks where the fairies
, abide.
The charms it intcrprets Of midsummertide.
r.. X. Munkittrick in Woman's Home
THE GIRL WITHOUT GREAT
GIFTS.
Many a modest, unselfsh girl, who
does not regard herself as remarka BILE
either in mind, appearance of manner
asks, Where is there place for girl
today who is not beautiful or talented
who cannot play or paint or sing, cannot
permit herself to write an essay for lit
erary club, and has no ability for leader
ship?'" writes Mary Il. Baldwin in the
Woman's Home Companion. For such
one the history of an everyday girl
who met fulfillnlent and wrought, from
common material, a wonderful life fabric,
may be offered. She was the plainest of
a family, and as she grew to maidenhood
gave no sign of possessing anything that
would not seem possible to the most or
binary person. Her sisters had each a
gift But nobody expected anything
great from Miss Margaret, and she
never dared to hope that she could fill
any place Of Importance, even in the
smallest circle. AS is often the case with
the inconspicuous girl of the family, she
became a general helper, and was called
to assist and to ill gaps in the home SER
vice. She learned through all this to get
away from herself, and in effect said, 1
cannot do this, but my sister can. As soon
as she could accept this she was no longer
a lonely girl, but imagined that she had
Il sort of partnership in the achievements
of those whom she helped. Let it not he
imagined that she had never experienced
4 regret that she had herself been over
looked in the distribution of gifts; there
were bitter moments when she suffered
on account of the fact, but this was be-
fore she had given herself wholly to the
purpose of forgetting her loss and helping
others. AS soon as this became a fact
she began to receive of the bleSsedneSS
of giving, and the mental and spiritual
enlargement of her compensation worked
itself outwardly, so that she became a
very attractive person. Finally the
prince came, and the slipper fitted the
tay-at-home sister, and she became a
princess before whom many hearts bowed
IN the SlncereSt reverence.