The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-10-29
ART OF LIVING TOGETHER.
Members Of Family Who Love and
Believe in One Another
Often Lack It.

/ a young woman is spending her life
| IN a work which requires intimate assoc
citation Of many people who have high
! ideals, but who also have wide variety OF
experience and temperament.
This variety, says Youths Compare
ion, naturally leads to frequent differ
snees Of opinion, and causes different
standards to be set up. The young
woman recently put the matter plainly
In a letter to friend.
Good, sincere and true as they are. 70
| she wrote, it is hard for our work.
ers to maintain right spirit toward
each other, We do not show for each
other the reverence that we feel, and
we do not feel enough reverence. Itsome-
| times seems as though we were so COM
stituted as to develop in each other
just those qualities which compel the
! opposite Of reverence. We suffer for
| it deeply. but it grows in spite of us.
| Can you not help us to be more care
full and thoughtful OF the touch Of our
lives upon the lives of others? It is q
| terrible thing to have a day ruined and
our souls shriyeled because in coming
| in contact with some one we allow that
person to put us out OF sorts, or we put
that other person cut of harmony, or
both. | do not want to give you the i'm
| preston that we are wranglers, for this
| is not true. We believe in each other
and love each other. and love our work;
| but we are differently constituted and
have different methods and tastes, and
we are often unjust to each other with
out intending to be so. The fact that
we suffer for 1t, and that we try to find
remedy, proves our desire for more
consistent life Please send us some
message, If you can, that shall be help
to u.s.
Surely very many people will Be
touched by this appeal, for the case
which it disc1oses is far from being
isolated. If the person addressed in
this letter could answer it wisely and
make the answer effective, the answer
would be worthy Of a place in many a
home, school and Office, and IN every
place where people Of varied training
and attainments must associate for
mutual ends.
NO man liveth to HIMSELF Even
the narrow circle Of the home life has
It's seVenfold tie, binding It to other lives
a tie that unites him to father, mother,
brother and sister. and later. to wife,
son and daughter. No one of these
seven is precisely like any other, ard
this sevenfold cord is but one strand
~ the interviewer thread that binds us
TO our fellow men. It is not enough to
learn how one shall keep himself un-
spotted from the world; the art Of liy-
| ing together is equally important.
Whatever answer may be given to
this letter, the letter itself will prove
as good an answer as can we'll be made
TO many people who experience the same
failure, but who have thought less deep
" into the causes, and have prayed less
earnestly for Aelp to overcome q sin
that so easily besets those whom God has
placed together Id the most intimate nf
earthly relations, When death comes.
and those We love and respect are re-
moved too far to be helped by our
thoughtfulness or eomforted by our
penltence. we often begin to learn q les
son which should have been considered
long before.
It is the matches charm OF the re-
liglon Of Christ that He lived His life
not only in purity and obedience to the
will OF God, but in sympathy, gentle
ness and patience displayed while He
lived and labored among men. It was
He Who said of kindness or of cruelty
toward the humbIeag OF the children Of
men among whom we must live and
work On earth: "Tnasmuch as We have
done it unto one Of the least Of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto Me. %