Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

Of flesh that it is not possible to analyze
the features subject them to criticism
Enough for that they have Won our
hearts and that they have a sweet. at
tractive kind of grace, a full assurance
given by looks. continual comfort in race
the lineaments Of gospel books"
A gentle aQuakeress said tenderly to a
niece who was bewailng her own lack OF
beauty: The good Lord gave thee plain
| features. hut he left it to thee 20 make
thine own expression The girl took her
lesson and learned it thoroughly, and now
that the graces of an amiaole character
illuminate her face none ever think OF II
as plain.
Our Life
Is indeed journey. 1t has purpose and
an object. 1t has beginning and an END
Each step of our way We shall pass over
| only once. Each experience we meet we
never shall exactly repeat. Each chance
encounter with another soul going the same
journey may lie the only opportunity We
shall ever have to see him. When trav-
eer passes through distant country
which he never expects to revisit his con-
slant thought is to take home with him an
! impression, a remembrance of the journey.
| And the surest method he can take to gam
| pleasant Impressions of the journey Is to
| give pleasant impressions as he goes along.
| Because that is the wonderful quality OF
| get them to keep.
| There is a woman occupying a prominent
position in one of our great cities. Perhaps
when hundred people apply to her for
help, advice or work, she cannot give to
e-tenth or one-hundredth what trey re
quest. Yet lately it was said OF her: she
never turns you away empty handeo. ohe
gives you more thought or offers some sug-
gestion which may lead to something that
can give you help, although she cannot give
the help herself. She never bluffs you on
as most people do.
And we whose journey may only he
through a fiat country. with no great mus
to climb or deep streams to ford, may make
that journey worth taking If those we meet
and pass on the road may by ana by say
oughtfully: He said thing to me once
| never have forgotten. 1t was only a
word, but it was true; and because it helped
me / am going to say it myself to some
one else
If this sounds little trite, it is none the
less not unnecessary, this reminding our
selves to be helpful on the way.
To Sympathize-
Truly is a talent with cutivat.ng. 1t i'm
plies genuine affectionate altruism, real
care for others in whatever capacity others
need help.
To the neighbor bearing perhaps weary
load of anxiety, to the friend breaking
down under apprehension of financial pres
sure. to the servant in your kitchen, SYM
patty will be precious. 1t may be given as
fully to the student glowing under college
honors, to the lover radiant at receiving
the longed for affirmative from the object
of his devotion, to the merchant on the
highway to success, to the author whose
book is successful, to the glad-hearted way
farer whose ship has just come in, to the
mother jubant over her first born.
We often limit sympathy to appreciation
DlNSical mental,
everyday experiences we have quite as
much reason to sympathlZe with those that
Are happy and complacent as with their
opposites. And our failure to sympathiZe
With those who are situated happily is as
much a cause of friction in the home as
overhardness of heart would be were our
friends in trouble.
For example, your son comes rushing
home from school afire with a piece of
news for you. There is to be match
next Saturday afternoon on the common
between the academy nine and the factory
nine, and your Jack, who is a fine pitcher,
Ia to have part. AS he pours out the story
you listen coldly, not shade of his en-
thusiasm reflected in your unresponsive
countenance, and when pause comes you
remark: Jack, all that is well, but you
forgot to wipe your feet when you came in,
and you must not leave your books on the
lounge. Go and put them in their proper
place.
You have failed in sympathy and missed
a precious opportunity of being your boy 8
comrade.
Your young daughter attends a pleasant
party in delightful house. AS she de-
scribes it in the effervescent fashion natural
to girls you listen in an absent and pre-
occupied way and plainly show that you
take no interest in the affair. If Blanche
seeks another confdante than her mother,
If in some crisis she accepts unwse council,
the blame may lie at your door,
The sympa thetic mother, the sympathetic
friend, is appreciative and responsive to joy
and triumph as well as to dlsappoin tment
and distress. ADA MAY KRECkER.