Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-31
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THE ROSARY OF a RAMBLER.

Among all the things which are old.
vet always new. commencement stands
pre-eminent. The one whom the years
have carried a little beyond the great
day in his own life is apt to sheer at
1t as always being the same-white
dresses, grandiloquent orations, un-
bounded ambitions and determination
to set the world Alright. The crisp
white gown will soon be limp and dingy
and the euphonious Grafton will be for-
gotten and then the ambition narrows
down to the more practical and one
is content to let the world go It's own
way; it is enough to care for self. Yet
the emotion and elation felt at COM
mencement time are not altogether use
less. If they did nothing more than to
furnish pleasant memory for future
days which are not so pleasant they
Moiiid avail something. but there is al
ways a possibility that they will do
more. For success Is not always sought
for In vain. hut she is never sought for.
at all unless there is ambition making
one hope and louk ahead. SO, let the
gcynic sheer as he will, but let you and
me wish the graduates we'll and be-
promised land.
Determination and doing what one
has said he Will do may be said to be
among the cardinal virtues. But just
as worthy is the old adage about the
best thing to do with broken promise,
for however valuable determination
and firmness may be, they are sadly
wanting when weighed in the balance
with brotherly Kindness and mercy.
There was once a man whose anger
was so short-lived as to be unable to,
see its object suffer even just punish
ment, and this one quality as much as
any other, perhaps served to make him
One Of Gods gentlemen The renter
of a farm which he owned had been
extremely derelict with monies due him
and evidence was quite strong that this
was the result more of lack OF honesty
than lack Of money. No one could CEN.
sure the gentleman. therefore, when
one day he announced his determina-
ton to have settlement with his ten
ant. Dire threats did he make as to
what he should say to him and how he
intended to drive him off the farm that
very day. So. in the early morning, he
set forth. a friend visiting in the home
expressed surprise at his anger and
| hoped he wouldn't be too severe. While
she was speaking, she wondered why
the mans wife smiled, while saying
nothing. The long, warm day wore on
and at tea time the angry man.. very
l.tired and Very hungry, came home. The
guest feared to ask OF the days adYen-
lsture. but the wife, desiring no doubt to
explain her smile, said: We'll. I sup
pose you set those people adrift?"
WELL no." her husband answered, II
didn't quite. You see. he Is a hard
worker and the place is so we'll kept,
and his wife works like a slave, too,
and they have the cutest twin babies,
so L gave. each one a dollar and came
home Then it was the guests turn to
smile. Now. 1t is a very beautiful thing
to believe that one is always repaid for
a good deed, not sometime away OFT in
1.-The future but almost as soon as it is
done. Perhaps this thought Is true, for
| the law of compensation ls not easy to
understand. But it was almost enough
| to shake ones faith in human nature
when few weeks later that tenant ran
away. taking with him not only his
UNPAID debt. but everything belonging
Ito his benefactor, on which he could lay
his hands. But despite all that no one
ever heard the man say that he re-
GREETED what he did. Perhaps he could
not forget how cute the twin babies
were!
The point Of view has SO much to do
with the way We look a things. Years
ago, on a Memorial day. the school
/ children marched to Riverside Each
\ one bore little bunch of flowers and as
| the roll of the states was called moved
| forward and laid the blossoms on a
monument erected to The Unknown
| Dead" Among the children was lit
tie mite of a girl who made up in spir-
| its and activity what she lacked in size.
4 A keen sense of the ridiculous was
/ among her most pronounced qualities
land something ludicrous to her childish
/ mind made her laugh and she could
scarcely stop. Some sense of the So
lemnity OF the occasion and the knowl-
| edge that her father and mother on the
Io,ltskirts Of the crowd We're looking at
4 her severely made her try to control
1 herself. but with no success whatever.
/ She Just managed to recite her quat-
Train and then hid her face in the dress
OF the big girl next to her and had her
laugh out. But today she was not
Laughing even when that big girl, who
has grown still larger, recalled the oc-
currence. For a brave young soldier
.fell in the Spanish war, and today she
knows the meaning of the day.
However much good the Mothers
1 Congress may have done the women, it
4 did more for the men. altho as good
things have fashion in doing, in an
| indirect way. Before Professor Chris
man had finished his speech he no
doubt wished himself safely back in his
awn Kansas. where the cyclones are
no more furious than the storm he en-
gendered in the serene atmosphere of
| discussing what day the servant should
| have out and what the baby should
wear. He may have wished he had not
come, but not SO the husbands of those
4 thousands of women gathered to hear
him. For if that speech had never been
made it is a doubtful thing IL half those
husbands would ever have known what
good. affcctionate. pure creatures their
wives think them to be. But now they
know. that whatever their wives may
say, they will not allow any one else to
SANDER them, and like sensible men
they should be satisfied with that.
| In One Lesson.