Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
All Ambitions


Have a growth The climbing plant feels
a support in its neighborhood. and puts out
it's teudrils and clasps IT and straightens it,
self for further length of stem, instead Of
idly wandering IN the air. And ambitions
are Ike the clasp of that tendrii. the push
of that sap into higher light.
The painters and poets ambition. even
when IT merely is the poor and personal de-
sire 10 excel. is better than sluggish con-
tent for the effort opens thousand ave
nues that may be followed up If one will.
TO be devoid of ambition is to sink
To have ambition and to exercise 1t Is to
rise by SO much. even a low ambition being
better in its effect character than no
ambition at all. for the unworthy ambition
merely Is the desire of the unworthy ma
ture II is nevertheless, the desire to rise
from a low estate to one that is better and.
therefore higher. and is perhaps the hrst
step of that poor nature in the path of true
advancement.
Aspiration seems to be the normal state
The first cell must needs add another to II
self and become finer thing than ene SIN
gle cells swimming around In an unchanged
condition The mineral must needs disin-
tegrate and become the vegetable. the veg
ctable In its loftiest forms aspires 20 pc
come the animal so that scientists tell us
of certain varieties that move ana nreathe
and have their being after the manner or
animals; there are certain OF the orcnias
which IL they do not aspire TO be bees ana
butterflies yet have all the appearance OF
such effort: and certainly 1t Is TO be hoped
Of man himself that he aspires to the place
of the angels.
Tt is Said
That the first sign of loves waning is
when it takes to being critical. this refer
ring. OF course, to the tricky love. with
wings and bandaged eyes: but there Is an
affection 80 Just and true that while with
clear vision ii sees In the beloved object
more than any one else can find to admire
weighing with incest precision and defght.
edlv giving full credit for every gram OF
perfection. yet with fine tact can mint al
certain deficiencies which little Thought
and care easily can remedy.
Such Weighing in the balance as this Is
the function of the critic on the hearth.
And privacy is no less essential than Is
the most delicate consideration. Human
nature always has sensitive shrinking
from loud-voiced Judgments and resents
even the best intentions of them when pro-
claimed at the wrong time and place. While
comparisons are found odious indeed.
Those who wish to weigh and measure
Justly will find the qualifications delight
fully SET forth in a letter from Leigh Hunt
10 Charles Cowden Clarke: Il always. as
far as | had the means OF judging, took
your wife to be thoroughly loving woman
IN every particle of her nature, and hold
n for an axiom, though exclusives in either
the material or the spiritual world count
IL a paradox. that 1t only Is such persons
who can have thoroughly fine perceptions
into any nature whatsoever In other
words. lncomp1eteness cannot possibly Judge
completeness
On the Continent
Men habituaIly perform services that in
America exclusively are given to women
servants The men chambermaids that one
meets In the French hotels are among the
strangest sights to the American freshly
gone abroad But they perform their work
quietly and without fuss and would ind
the idea that there is any special Sig
nihcance in their work the most peculiar
OF notions.
one meets the man houseworker every
where on the continent and is glad 10 have
Ills dert careful silent services. And there
is no sound reason for men not sweeping
and busting. making beds, cleaning win
dows fixing the fire. cleaning the CRATE, ar
ranging the furniture, while their fine adap-
liability To the arts of cookery is amply at
tested by the princely salaries the heads Of
this profession receive.
\ larger view OF household work Is being
bred of late, partly through the Americans,
seeing the work Of men servants abroad,
partly from the well recognized superiority
OF Japanese and Chinese men servants. and
partly from the extraordinary incapacity
Of the average woman servant
Essential
To q healthful home are light, sunshine,
pure air. and dryness and given a house
provided with these disease should be
stranger. and IN order to provide these sew
eral precautions are necessary. The house
must be located properly with respect TO