The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-12

The following thoughts from great au-
thors embody beautiful home thoughts: OF
devotion and sentiment. that all women
would Go we'll to ponder and consider for
the balm they will bring to the heart
The old Rabbnical legend teaches that
Sandalphon, the angel waits at the gate
of heaven to gather the prayers ascend
ing from human hearts that turn into
flowers In his hands. Surely, If this is
true, Stevenson's morning prayer, quoted
here, must make fragrant sheaf of bios
SONS. flt.tSslr,3. g5
This Is his prayer:
"rhe day returns and brings us the
petty round of Irritating concerns and
duties. Help us TO play the man, help US
to perform them with laughter and kind
faces, let cheerfulness abound with IN
dustry. Give us to so blithely on our
business all the day; bring us to our
resting beds weary and content and UNI
dishonored; and grant us IN the end the
gift OF sleep. .
And in the evening, he prays again
in these words:
1--WE beseech Thee, Lord, to behold US
with favor. BE patient still; suffer us
while longer to endure, and, If 1t may
be. help us to do better. Bless to US our
extraordinary mercies. Be with our
friends; be with ourselves. Go with each
Of us to rest; If any awake. temper to
| them the dark hours of watching; and
when the day returns to u.s. call us up
with morning faces and with morning
hearts-eager to labor; eager to be happy.
LIE happiness shall be our portions; and
| if the day be marked for sorrow. strong
| to endure 1t. g3
| A quotation from the same author
should find a place above the writing
| desk or mnntel of Il wornan's bed room,
because Of the purity and sincerity It
counsels In saying:
/ ITO be honest, to be kind, to earn
q little and to spend n little less, to
make upon the whole the family happier
| for her presence. TO renounce when that
shall be necessary and not be embt-
| tered, to keep few friends, but these
| without equalization, above all on the
same grim condition to keep friends
| with herself-here Is task for all that
one has Of fortitude and delicucy."
| DR. Henry van Dyke in his illuminated
| household motto, THE Footpath to
Peace" marks tho gulde-posts leading
to 1t as follows. E.
ITO be glad OF life because 1t gives you
| the chance to love and to work and to
pldy anu W look up at the SldISi W pc
satisfied with your possessions, but not
contented with yourself until you have
made the best OF them, to despise MOTH
Ing in the world except falsehood and
meanness, and to fear nothing except
cowardice; to be governed by your nd-
vibrations rather than by your dlsguists;
to covet nothing that Is your nelghbors
except his kindness OF heart5a and gentle-
ness of manners. TO think seldom of
your enemies, often OF your friends, ana
every day of Christ; and to spend as
much time MS YOU can. with body and
with spirit, In Gods out-of-doors-th
are little gude-posts on the foot-patN
Of peace"
"My symphony" By w. II. Charming
will well repay tho task Of illuminatlnf
aud framing for the woman who desires
something harmonious and helpful y
suggestion, The symnhany runs thus.
ITO 1.-Two content with small means t.
seek elegance rather than luxury. ant
refinement rather than fnshion' 10 b'
worthy not resnectable; and wealthy
not rich; to study hard. think Gu,etly
talk gently, act frankly, to listen y
stars and birds to babes md sRges, VIII
open heart; 10 hear all cbeerfilly. DO al
hravely, await OCCASIONS, hurry never
in n word 10 let The sptrltual unnihnn'
md unconscious, grow up through ~
eommon--this Is my symphony
'Duty," one OF Phillips BROOKS strohs
satisfying utterancfs. Will be comior,
In time OF need aud dIscouragement,
It be placed where the eve can fall npo'
l 1t aud take In all that It II tntnnhan