The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-28

for a reasonably early marriage.
Let me add that a father is a very
delightful chaperon, If a mother can
not bestow her presence on a social
Among the high privileges of woman
hood that peculiar one of offering en-
couragement to the timid, and strength
to the wavering and weak must al
way be priced.
The ordinary young woman does not
now feel obliged to read Sir Walter
Scott, yet lacking familiarity with his
in English literature.
Learn the Bible by heart, whole
chapters of it. and be assured the day
will come when the precious bits of
truth will be to you as the fine gold
and the fadeless gem.
A mean, petty, selfish, vain and ego
tistical mother will impress those traits
on her child; he will draw them in with
the milk which feeds his early life.
For the sake of our country, let it's
motherhood be noble.
The loving wife will not endeavor to
keep her husband from undertaking the
duties of citizenship. She will wish
him to be a man among men, a man
who will not scorn politics nor leave
them to the illiterate and the unscru-
pulous.
A girl need not marry for a support
or for a home. She nay support her
sell ana make n6f own nome. "A girl
no longer breads old maidhood. The
term and what it stands for are obso-
letc- No ~opprobrium attaches to the
single woman.
employment by going to it in the spirit
of martyrs who pity themselves, or by
bringing to it merely the .m~ercenary
motive. Self-pity is the badge of
weakness. and work done for money
alone is never noble work
The girl who sat beside you at ten
and looked over the same spelling book,
who at twelve shared your picnic
frocks when you did, may at twenty
and at twenty-five continue to be your
dearest friend.
Blessed is the girl whose mind is not
occupied with the impression she is
making, who exacts little, and is CRATE
full for every attention, while asking
no favors. except those which are
every day matters between refined
people in daily intercourse.
Older people smile at the sentimental
ity of the young only when the youth
has waned in their own souls. Senti-
ment is the sheen IN the seashell, the
perfume of the rose, the velvet smooth
ness on the roughened surface of the
hill as you watch it in the evening
light.
If a girl admit me to her room, I
need no other of her char
acter. Her d~aintiness, her delicacy, her
fondnes for art. her little lads and
"a Rl A1to IL AlC1C 1OC1 SAlO
care for athletics, her room tells the
story.
A young man whose sister is his firm
and ~congenial friend is armed against
a multitude of possible a1lurements to
evil which else might find him unpre-
pared for resistance. Among the most
of gifts is that of sisterly
magnetism which provides ATTRACTIONS
for the growing lad in his own home,
and which grapples the youth to the
hearthstone as with hooks of steel.
A Quaint Legend.
Says Bolton Hall, in the Christian En-
deavor World: There is a monkish tale
something like this: A woman grOaned
and protested SO in hell that she dis
turbed the peace of God. Therefore He
sent Gabriel to see whether she could
not be got out; and Gabriel asked her
whether she had ever in the world done
one deed that came from a kindly heart.
After long thought she said she had; she
had once given a carrot to a gga
God said to the angel, go, find the
carrot"
So the angel found the carrot; and God
stretched the carrot down to hell, and
told the woman to take hold of it, and
will it He was dra wing her up out of
hell
her chung to her skirts, that they might
also be lifted up: and, when the weight
was great. she tried to shake them off.
saying. Let go; this is my carrot" God
said, Then you did not really give
it. after ALL" And God let the carrot go.
so that she sank back into irrevocable
hell