The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01
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Come ye apart and rest awhile"
Apart from all ifes busy ways
It's ceaseless toil-its crowded days;
Too weak it's Earring sounds 10 bear
Too tired its very joys to share
With weary frame and trouble breast
The Master bids me come and rest.
The work the busy brain has planned,
Drops idly from the nerveless hand;
l long for service, but in vain,
And bowed beneath the cross of pain,
But little left of life to live,
What have / now my God to give?
o, troubled heart. why thus oppressed!
This broken, suffering life may rest
On Him whose everlasting arm
Protects His feeblest child from harm,
He knoweth that His win we seek,
Though spirit fail, and flesh be weak;
The plying love to which we trust
Remembered that we are but dust.
To bear in patience, day by day;
To count the blessings on my way;
To lift to God a grateful heart;
To wait HIS time-be this my part!
These days of WEAKNESS and pain
May bring their need of truest gain,
And lengthening nights of sad unrest,
And lonely hours, may all be blest
For as II is the fearful eyes
That look the oftenest to the skies,
The heavenly pathway shines more clear
AS shadow fall on all things here,
And, resting in the desert place,
We meet the Master, face to face.
j E. Lyman, in the New York Observer.
There was a very amiable young man
al a dance the other night, says the Bal
timore News, who brought down upon his
own well-meaning head the wrath of one
of his partners by a speech which he
meant to be excessively complimentary
"You dance beautifully" he said, with
much fervor; II never was so surprised in
my life as I was to find you the best
walter in the room. I wouldn't have i'm
agined it to see you on the floor" and
he went stumbling on to his fate in this
short-sghted way with other sentences of
a similar fattering order until he was
aroused to a sense of his blunder by a
freezing THANK YOU as mademoiselle
walked off with another and, let us hope,
a more appreciatiVe man.
Tact is the one thing that each of us
fondly believes he possesses, but that is
in reality fearfully hard to find. One meets
every day the woman who greets one with
an encouraging Dear me, how thin you
are l think you're looking very badly"
and who suggests various remedies for
sallow skins and thin hair with an enthu-
siasm that shows how much she is en-
joying the situation until one feels like
flying into a rage and giving her a piece
of ones mind.
The man who remarks to a woman 10 or
Is years younger than himself, that it's
time for "old people Ike u.s. to be at home
is ubiquitous and the creature who per-
sists in recalling unpleasant episodes in
peoples lives, omnipresent.
A maign fate seems to impel perfectly
good tempered and innocent persons to
score divorces to those who have Had to
do with these courts themselves; to laugh
at baldheads 10 those somewhat destitute
of hair and to talk of battle, murder and
sudden death to mourning ones.
There is no conversational byway so de-
vious or so little trodden but. that it will
be reached by those who especially wish
to avoid it,
Tact is but another name for judgment
and thoughtfulness and only the really
unselhsh person possesses 1t to any de-
gree, but since it is simply adroitness, it
may be cultivated with greater or less
success by any one who is amiabe enough
to wish to please.
"Put babys little fingers back into
baby's muff, quick!' said a kindly look
ing nurse to her little charge, cor Jack
Frost viii come and bite them" And the
little thing hastily thrust her tiny nit
tened hands back into their furry cover
for the parsonage or thing that her nurse
had conjured up to her imagination.
"How altogether wrong that ISL eX-
claimed a mother, who was passing, to a
representative of the New York Tribune.
THAT woman evidently belongs to a SUI
perior class of servants; moreover |
should Judge from her appearance that she
is both competent and good. Yet she does
positive harm to the child, whom she
probably adores, by exciting her fears and
peopling her world with unknown enc
mics. Jack Frost to us seems like a harm
less creation of fancy. but l suppose to
that infant he is a grisly. mysterious
monster, ready to spring out from any
side street and attack her
For my part. do not think children
should be allowed to be afraid of any
thing. 1t would be quite possible to elm
mate fear from their minds II thev were
rot taught to dreed anything Why. the
other Gay I saw a mother showing a pic
ture book to her baby. "Oh, see the bow
wowr she exclaimed, and then, putting
her finger to the dogs mouth. Oh the
naughty dog bit mamma" So, naturally
when she took The chi'd's finger to put to
the animals mouth the little one scream
ed ] have seen such performances over
and over again, and yet no one seems to
realize it is teaching the child cowardice
and distrust.
i know OF one inOlnST. however, VINO
l am happy to say. has the right idea
about warping the youthful mind. She has
three little child en- under seven, and she
has taught them TO believe that every
thing is good. that all animals are kind
and that every person loves them
The consequence is that they are
the friendliest little beings imaginable,
and the bravest, too. They do not know
what fear is, for they cannot imagine
anything or anybody working them harm.
OF course, l know that they must
Learn sooner or later that evil and hatred
exist said their mother but the knowl-
edge will come to them gradually, after
their reason is more developed, and they
can judge of cause and effect But now,
while they are shielded from all that can
hurt them, The chief thing, It seems to
me, is to teach them confidence in and
affection for every living thing.
l have been having. said a women to the
Pittsburg Dispatch, rather warm argu-
ment with a hotel clerk who says that "a
woman in a hotel is like a live wire on a
frolic or runaway horse at a funeral
She can give and countermaud more or