The age-herald., 1900-07-22

of precious moments whilst you toyed with your lapdog, woman beloved! Know you that you can never repay in all the after hours of your spirit! That time is lost to him irretrievably The kiss you did not suffer when you might lost its place, and all the caresses of the afterwhiles cannot be absolute compensation. You were fash toned for the world to be caressed and 10 caress, and when you spurn that destiny you fail in the foolish fancy of seeking to fashion destiny of your own inclinations gone astray.
 So also with every human entity. None has the moral right to receive coldly gen. erous advances and kindly greetings. It is hail and hail in this life: heartsease and allheal, or heartsore and alwounding There must be comradeship giving and re- ceiving; or the cold negation of the higher humanities. There must be wide-eyed com panionableness and happiness, or sury churlishness and miserable loneliness. 1t Is so written, so ordered, so all-wisely di- rected. We must be goodly creatures beauteous mankind, or heathenish outcasts toiling the rough road to deep damnation The unhappiest of 1ife's incidents is glad dening smile slain by a stare. There are drowning and snarling and pickering and slandering persons in the world, but they are the pauper poor of hell whom we know not, praise God.
 The maiden in white raiment is the bright light that beats about the earth She seems to be everywhere-at the cross ing of the ways in the marts, behind the vines, under the stars, at the tryst, in your heart, in your prayers. in your dreams, , Wearing youths most superlatively splen- did of all earthly crowns, her enchanting figure swaying with awakening desires as flower moved by tender winds, she rules with her own marvellous grace, and blushes at the hopes born of her own in comparable loveiiness. She laughs in glee, rejoices in promises, and is radiant in the infinite abandon of her own affections Her lissome self, divine in a thousand nameless charms, from her little white brow to her little white feet is of yet diviner prophe- cies; and her ravishing ioveableness holds strong men glad idolaters at the altar of her goddess personality. So overmastering is this exquisite youthfulness in white, this al-conquering maiden of the young years, this happy houri, this heavenly Hebe of earth, that she sets wise men to jibbering like buffoons, and they would die to kiss her feet, kiss her feet.
 All for you, strong and true;
 No time the tie can sever;
 Till the angels doubt and the stars burn
 out,
 am yours, sweetheart, forever.
 
 So say we all of us, so say we all. Love reigns right royalty over every worthy man and woman in the world, and children are the dearest flowers of all the human love of mankind. Children are the pledges of the worlds faith, the re-incarnation of all the worlds better and nobler hopes and purposes.
 It is truth, ever bearing something of joy that every man and every woman, of whatever age or environment, have been giorifed in some hour by some love; and love is the one supreme tale for ever inter- esting to every human, sane or insane. The venerated Senator bending with years and honors, but still radiant with a soul young beyond the power of time to age, who sends