The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-25

wonderful world, full Of possibilities
70. us all, Each morning brings new
life
Never was there time when a girl
need feel hopeless on the sunJect OF
her lack OF good looks if that is what
Florence means by nature 8 unklnd-
ness.
changed ard today a girl who is per
tectlv groomcd and who wears her
CLOTHES neatly and puts them on prop
criy. who carries cheerful smile about
with bcr and is Wideewakc. IS invarl-
ably rated as n pretty girl. even though
her features MAJ not be regular or her
form perfect.
The Sunday magazines teach girls 10
make themselves pretty if they Will
only take a little trouble with their
hair and complexion and hands and
form,
No girl need be an ugly girl today.
BIT sumc of them are too lazy 10 light
with their defects until they overcome
thcm. They will not take the hour or
half hour before retiring o. on getting
up IN the morning for the various
means and exercises that other girls
employ TO keep looking and feeling
well.
Florence. with her beautiful goddess
ancestor and her ambitions, has no
reason for belonging to the class of
don Z care girls She has ambitions,
she writes, bat no means
They rarely 20 together. Ambition
makes means and creates opportunl-
ties. 1t lands beggars on thrones. 1t
has made great artists and genluses out
of street waits aud peasants i'll the
field.
1t gave US Lincoln and Napoleon. 1t
has reared noble architecture TO the
sky and freed the world from the slay
CIV Of old thought,
L. is one of the divinest gifts of God.
1t places its possessors on a level with
the great ones of the world. There are
manv girls who never feel the slight
est longing or desire to be other than
thev are.
The limit of their desires is a new
gown or hat. They go through life
very much as the cat does who dozcs
cortent in the warm corner by the fire.
So Florence has one great possession
that she can head her list of blessings
with And this is one Of the best pre-
sccipticns for the blues: To write
down the particular Ill or sorrow that
ahlicts us, or the several ones. Then
TO make a couuterlist of the blessings
VIC have to be thankful for.
Say Of your present sorrow that it is
not lrreparablc. All things are for
good, even our sulferings.
Str'ye 10 think Of way out of
difficulty. There is generally a way
out. Take advantage of it.
Study If it may not he blessing in
disguise, sent us for some purpose that
NC iail TO understand.
Think If We are cXapg Grating some
slighU annoyance to the dignity Of
real sorrow.
a little hard work, a little illness. a
little lonellness-all these are matters
that must be borne bravely. Fate is not
fnnd of towards or winners.
And il we plan the future let us
plan q bright one. Let lis say that
every care Will pass away; that there
arc great and good and happy things in
store foT us. that no evil condition is
permanent.
There are reasons why some lows
! seem to be withheld from some of us.
1t is pant of the plan that will he made
pain 10 lis some day, "when we shall
know and understand
Very frequently the griefs that we
seem to suffer from ara the result Of
colossal selhshness that shuts us in
like shell,
We dc not know when we are well
on. as the saying is. We are spoiled
by good fortune and we suap and snarl
and complain and frowu and turn life
into Al individual inferno.
Perhaps the most famous Florence of
hction Is Dickens s Florence Dombey,
IN hos great novel. FDombey and
Son Her life almost from its open
ln1 was lneXpresslby sad, clouded by
tA2 early death Of her mother and of
her loved brother. Paul.
Read Of that lonely little life in the
great dim house, with n cruelty cold
father; where the little girl as she grew
| had visions Of what he life might be
when death took her To her mother and
| her brother, She was hoping for hap
Plness even though it came to her
| through the grave
And then follow on through the
chapters when happiness came to her