The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-01-23
THeGIRLANpHERB FRIENDS
She May be a Little Queen.

j. 5. bill. until recently resident OF this
city. now Of Bowling Green, KY, pub
lished in the Baptist Argus, Of Louisville,
Ky. in it's issue Gf January llth, will he
read with interest 10y many oil our sub
scribers:
The Rowe boys were sturdy set. six
in all and we often called them The six
He Rover" Such nOise they would make
The shrill whistle, the loud halloo, the
GLAD. bright laughter often came 10 us AS
they played on the large green lawn by
the side of their home. One day there
came to them s sweet little sister, 80
gentle and pure. Now those boys loved
her. and with what care they watched
over her. She 20 lovely entering INTO all
their glee and joining their games when
not too boisIerous, eT jOying their inn
and ever setting near by during their
rouvh and tumble play. Thus the hspp.
da,s went by. until the Angel Reaper
came aud with his sickle garneIed thls
choice flower for the garden OF Heaven.
The father. speaking of the good done 10y
the short young life, said; Most oi all it
had refining influence on my boys. III
made them more gentle, more cOneiI-
crate. more hel Jful." What Il she had
lived on To mature Year, Who can
estimate the good done 10y "ohly sls-
tef?'
In this American life Of ours, giIls need
to realize that not only with their broth.
ers at home. but with the larger circle OF
noisy teasing boys IN the class room aud
on the play ground, they have au iLlu-
ence they scarcely estimate. There are
some lands in which girls and boys, eI.
cept ~ brother and sister, are not reared
together. But with us, girl and boy,
man and wOmAD, mingle lOgcthtr from
the cradle To- tie K, ave, and We 'ar'y 1t
is that the girl lie has important con
tact with the boy that's not her brother.
We are not dealing here with that time
in a glrls life when love comes "A WOO
ing" but in those earlier years when she
il in the glad winsomeness oi youth. IL
is then. by cutivating all the gfAces Oi
girlhood, she may call forth the imira-
tion OF her boy friends. The turn from
the rough and tumble game ollie To hnd
a soitening influence in IL girls presei &c.
Yrs. the girl oI today has in!s-lun 10
the boys MiDging Hs she dUr5 with
them In schod1 and class lie, in her home
and on the street, she should be rlean and
pure in purpose, kind and gentle in DEAL
inpr. hfm in her thoughts Uf right and
wrong, and with high ideal. hen may
the giri lead her boy friends to noble pnr
pose and determined success. II iLflu
ence must be always for the betterment
Of her boy comrades.
Emerson says: "Odr friends are those
who make VA do what we can and the
girl who stimulates "a boy TO his beet en
deayor proves his best friend. Her iLiiu-
euce holds against the strong current OF
evil. fear that girls do not realize that
often a word or look will deter a boy
from wrong.
The cigarette the boy thinks il manly,
but " bich unmans him, Is cast aside, be-
cause his little girl friend tells him IL is
not nice. The glass of wine IL set down
untasted. the rlbGld Jest dies unspoken
on the lips. the hand raised ~ strike TAILS
to the side, all because OF the look or
word Of pure, sweet girl. Then, in the
hour OF gross temptation, the memory OF
that face will hold in check the passion
and deter from evil.
Does the girl OF today wieh thus to in
auence her boy iriends2 Then she must
never be careless, but always neat in
dress; never rude, but always lady-like
in manner; never coarse or bOisterous,
but always chasIe and gentle in thought
and speech She must be TO him ever
superior and uplifting being.
Aud then, what OF the Christian girl ?
L.. r.la1araA n hfF .AF6
and Master? Her Individual work may
lead her boy friends to find life Ct love
and duty. BY her example che urges
them on to a higher life. What more
beautiful than a consecrated girrs life
given To leading, by her own pure e1
ample, her boy friends to make Christ
their beet friend Where can more pleas-
ure be found than in innocent merry
making by the young, where ChFist Is
the unseen guest, and the silent listener
to every conversation, and at all their
games OF fun? Such influence. such
pleasures have no sting OF remOrse. Tney
are pure and unalIoyed.
And after all the girl becomes the wom-
an. Those boys become the strong men
of the hour Borne on in the active du-
ties OF life, far from personal influence,
yet the memory Of it all comes as An in
spiration: and the boy, now grown to
manhood, bears the impress u that in
iuence.
There are some flowers thstg that
are beautiful enough to look upon, but
which have no fragrance. The perfume
that is the soul of the flower mature has
been denied, and we turn from 1t disap-
pointed To every "girl.lifs" there be
longs delicate fragrance, without which
she il not her true self IL is In the pres
ence of this maidenly by perfume OF char
acter, OF even a young girl, that boy
finds the influence that callI out the best
there is in him He takes off his cap and
bows to the little queen.