The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-07-04
HUMAN FLOWERS.
THIS Is WHAT AUNT SALLIE
CALLS TIE GIRLS.
Who Are the Sweetest Things the
Good Lord Created on the
Earth.

Come, girls, and 'snuggle" up close
to me while we have heart-to-hear1
talk, for I expect to get as much as
give. T want to think Of my girls,
whether they are one year or ten o.
twenty, as opening flowers some o1
them early spring beauties, Others
summer rOses-3ll sweet and tender,
and all needing love and care to de-
Yelop the best that is in them.
Girls, don't be in hurry to reach
young ladyhood and the advantages
you imagine will be gained by it. Do
not rob yourself Of the rosy flush OF
happy childhood. It will soon be
over. You will put away with loving
hands the piaythiDgs OF your child
hood. How hseting are the years OF
childhood. AS the years pass they
bring with intelligence and experience,
but take away the innocence OF child
hood.
Girls, do you reaEzs you are the
rosebuds In the garden Of life? You
are the sweetest things that God Gre
ated. Your voices are like music-So
upselfsh and sweet, so helpful and
loving that sad hearts grow glad and
sad faces brighten wherever you 60.
Love this youth that God has given
you, and forget not to thank Him for
1T. There are no skeletons In your
closet, no sorrowful memories to bring
the tears to your eye.
hope you are an happy and cheer
ful these bright spring days. While
the birds are building their hom.s in
hedges and tree tops they are filing
the world with music. Busy from
morning till night, they find time to
sing. Don't walt till your work is done
to sing-sing and be happy and make
others happy. Yes, follow the birds
example and go singing to your work.
Surely God wants us to be cheerfu
and happy when BE made this World
so beautiful for Us. Kind, cheerful
people bring out the best that is IN
US, so that We can hardly help being
good while We are under their llflu-
ence. There Is no svee5er music IL
our heavenly Fathers ears than ths
innocent song and laughter OF his
children, and no sWeeter tribute could
ever be made to the weary ones OF
earth than that which comes from
the sparkling, innccent soul OF young
girlhood.
Girls, havs all the pets you want,
but don't keep any living thing In Goa
dnement. Don't have sweet little
songster beating It's wings against the
cage, nor frolicsome squirrel. Let
them be free, happy and joyous In
their native element. A felloW-feel.
ing makes us wcndsrous kind. 1t has
been eleven years since walked the
green earth, and the time seems long
and dreary. I often long In the glsl
springtim to get away into some
deep tangled wildwood and listeE to
the sweet songs Of birds In JOYOUS
freedom as they fit from Tree to tree
I have learned lessons Of patience
and submission to the divine will. AS
nsver before I've learned the value Of
true friends, to appreciate more and
more the love and friendship Of pure
minded Christian girls. How patient
ly and sweetly, with tender bands
they ministered to me when the death
angel seemed very near. None but
I'd Is sufficiently wise to understand
the heart Of Christian girls. They
bring joy and peace to their homes.
They are their mothers companions
and helpers, and their sweet influence
brings much OF heaYen down to earth
by keeping their brothers wandering
feet in paths OF safety. Surely the
sheltering wings OF che unseen angels
must hover very near our sweet girls.
God bless them and make US worthy
Of their tender devotion.
Pure minded girls are not only
blessings in their homes. We meet
with them on the highways and By
ways. Oae OF them came into my lie
as ministering angel when was far
from friends, when I was bereft OF all
that made life worth living. But we
were as ships passing and hatling each
other as we passed. No girl can be
pure and good without the world be.
Ing the better for it and making her
own heart happier. God bless you
sll and keep you well and happy, and
remember you have the best wishes OF
AUNT SALLlE.
Destructive Storm.
Charlie Thomson, negro living
rouao nni1aa east of OniOl had the |