Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-11
The Sort of Young Nan
Girls Ought to Look For

Here manhood struggles for the sake
OF mother, sister, daughter, wife.
The eraces and the loves which make
The music Of the march of life.
And woman. in her daily round
OF duty. walks CD holy ground.
Whittier.
| have asked myself what kind OF
men and women will these letters
make. if there happen to be any who
adopt their counses - The reply
comes to me in the form Of a vision
which will unfold to you.
| see young man standing al the
opening gates of ife, and with earne t
eyes scanning the landscape that
stretches before him.
Flowers are sprinsing at his feet
among he velvet grass. brooks are
dragging their chains OF fla hing sill
FeF ioVer the rocks, and ,pas sing N
CARELESS frolic towards 1the sea: birds
.are. .hMtering like wind.lossea bios
SONS amid the overhangine foliage
and breathing their fragrant mesody
upon the air. breezes. full of love are
tanning his cheek, and filing him
with a sense Of intoxicating pleasure,
and the sky is bending over him With
no break Of blue save where in the
exalted perspective. golden clouds t
Ike crowns upon golden mountain
His heart is bold. his limbs are
stlong. his blood is hoalthful. and his
whole susceptible and sensuous ma
ture lhrobs With responses 10 the aB-
peaIs of the beauty and music and
sweetness, around and before him.
He takes step, and pleasures conn
1Son her secre, bower and invites him
10 her banquet OF delights. He pauses
for a moment shivers With the stress
G. the temptation. puts her resolQte'y
aside and passes on. Idleness. lelltn2
beneath shade. points to a vacant
seat. and closes her langutd eye. but
with DISGUST be leaves her and pres es
forward. Ambition beckons from
some sudden summit but he heels
her not.
Then duty comes and standine be
fore him-a firm and earnest figure
points to a burden and bids him TO
t.kc ii up. and bear it as he JOURNEYS
onward He pauses. looks around,
head. above, then lifts il To his
shoulder and with muscles firmly
stained presses forward With new
s'eor. Soon he becomes accustomed
to the load. and then duty comes again
and bids HIM add to H. He willingly
takes on the new burden. and as h.
docs 50, finds his. heart warming with
,l"erfulnese.. and his voice bursting
into song.
a,egelals, stepped with Wine and
~ id with hilaritv. look HIP from Their
v.rc.covcred table at the sound OF
the heoltliy lay, and laugh and scott
nu they do not approach him. Tempt
ations that throng the path OF the
weak and faithless stink away from
l.r3 without attack; or if one scat'ers
hs charms upon him. they slide on
| K. dew from bronze.
So duty becomes to him a guiding
a.ge Wherever she leads he follows
In her tops he drops into raHlneS,
II dfan from the light Of the sun ne
rfuncpr into streams whose btltows al
t{;lhi and chill him. and crosses them
~ m:4h1 which grows with every
..1rusgle: he scales mountains that Ne
IL his path piled with huge disconr-
ayemer+s ana SECS from the summit
cf achievements, shimmering IN me
.,+.tanc4 lle streams Of the great re-
-, var ',''-. yT5Giag .'+. among fhe meadows OF
h,asa,ly recompense.
tt lq.st he comes to point in ms
= Nha@ h paoses, he listens to the
foarng or his own heart. 1t IS the
.hr.Y ana rhythm Of manhood thas
h arr is strongly telling He sees tha'
be has made progress towards tn
Golden mountains with their crowns
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