The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-22
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When Have Time.
When have time I'll pause and turn
aside;
III take the narrow way; forsake the wide;
I'll shun the thoroughfares where traffic
grinds
Forever aud anon.
Where lurrcs sheen the soul Of mankind
blinds,
But drives and shoves him on;
And guides his fingers TO his neighbours
purse,
And sinks him to perdltion's depths or
I'll Quit these scenes. some day
When / have time.
When ! have time, at home I'll spend it
I'll kiss the face that greets me at the
door:
And by my tired wife I'll take my place,
I'll smooth her way; I'll Danish from her
The shadwy clouds of care.
III ne me to tine tine oppressed
These things II do, and more
When have time.
When ! have time Ill make my peace with
trOd;
I'll take my dusty Bible from its shelf
And read 1t through and through.
I'll learn TO love my neighbor as myself
"a precept learned by few,
And then, some day, I'll lay me down to
Well satisfied that | have done my best
Some day; not now: not yet;
When have time.
Lawrence POrchcr Hcxt In Lcslie'S Week
ly.
Cruel Kindness.
No thoughtful person can have failed
to observe that much of thc injustice TN
der which women suffer is merely the
result of injudicio,,s Kindness, and this
never has Il more forciblc illustration
than III the attitude which parents as
sumo towards their children who are
about to leave the schonlroom. Having.
as we humorously put it. FINISHED their
eduration, the fathers first care is to
nave his son taught ooiilt business or pro-
fesslon. by which he may secure for HIM
self the comforts Of life and he indie.
pendent. No one, though, thinks of Civ
lnS the girl an equal chance. and pro.
viding her with a way in which she can
earn her bread and butter should occa-
sion require it. Her future. surely as i'm
portant as her brothers., is left entirely
to chance.
or course, this is intended in all kind
ness, but it does look like the united en-
perlence of the ages would have taught
us some better way of showing our love
for girl than by making her helpless. 1t
might be j',stifablr if we knew that we
would always be by ncr side to shell
and protect her, to ward off from her
the blows Of fate. Unhuppily. this il JIM
possible. She must walk the path of dog
tiny alone. She must succeed or fail.
stand or fall as her own strength is, lust
as Ill the case Of ii man. Misfortune is
no respecter of sex.
Our excuse is always that we expect
girls to marry. We speak of matrimony
as kind of haven in which Il woman
drops anchor and rides at ease the bal
ance of her life. In reality, it is a career
requiring the most complicated training.
and the fact that girls rush into it n :;
fitted for it's duties and responsibilities
explains why there are so many unhappy
marriages, just as lack of knowledge and
training explains why many men fail in
business.
1t is not argued, of course, that every
girl should study law, or medicine, or
typewriting, or trained nursing Still
less that anyone who does not need the
money should enter the ranks of women
bread-winners, but it is certainly every
fathers duty to teach his daughter the
rudimcnts of bookkeeping, and enough
about investments and securities to en-
able her to know how to care for the
money he is to leave her some day. 1t is
this ignorance of money that accounts
for much of the extravaganza of women,
and it is what makes them the. victims
of sharpers and people with gold bricks,
and wildcat mines.
So far as a profession for women is
concerned, we come back at last to the
fact, strange as most women regard it.
that wOmpn'S hoe hno,,
along eternally feminine lines. No girl
can be taught better trade than house
keeping, or sewing. Every year the price
of plain sewing gets fancier and fancier,
and dressmaking climbs up into the
clouds. The world is hungry three times
a day, three hundred and sixty five days
a year, and has to be fed The whole
cook. and good place to board. These
professions, carried OH intelligently, are
never ovcrcrowded. "Ah," but you say.
look at the poor sewing women cry
ing for work? Look at the boarding
housckeepers being sold out by the sher-
i(fY' True, but how did they do their
work? Didn' t you have to take your
fixed so you could wear it? Was there
womail's table? Incompetent, incompe-
tent, no wonder they failed.
AS matter Of fact, and the sooner
they recognize it the better, itiefiiciency
or lacking of trainilig is DIT the bottom
of every w0maii's failure; and this, tl1ore
the cruel kindness that in seeking to
shield them, deprives them of the medns
by which they might win their way to
happiness and prosperity.-Nc Orleans
Picayune.
Country Boys Advantages.
Pleasure and the pursuit of it are not
the first things inculcated in young minds
among American farm ing people. Pleas
ures come after duty has been done; and
they are rewards for the duties that have
been we'll done. This placing Of duty first
is the great disciplinary advantage in the
country work cannot be postponed, and
the accomplishment of it becomes d habit
Of life, no matter how far removed the
person trained in it may be from the
field in which it was necessary. Pretty
nearly everything a country boy encoun-
ters day by day has a tendency toward
some individuality. There is a deal of
regular work that every country boy
must do. This work, pretty much al
ways out of doors, inculcates Industrious
and regular habits, while it contributes
to physical development which in after
years is just as valuable as any athletic
training that can be had. He cannot run
as fast, perhaps, as those trained by a
SYSTEM; he may not be able to jump so
high or SO far or excel in any of the
sports upon which we bestow so much
time and from which we get so much
of pleasure, but his development enables
him to buckle down to the hard work in
which hours are consumed and from
Which very little or any immediate nlpas-