The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-07-06
HUMAN FLOWERS.
THIS Is WHAT AUNT BALLIE
CALLS THE GIRLS.
Who Are the Rweetest Things the
Good Lord Created on tho
Earth.

to mo while we have 8 heart. to- heart
talk, for expect to get as much as I
give. I want to think of my girls,
whether they are one year or ten or
twenty, as opening flowers-some of
them early spring beauties, others
summer roses sweet and tender,
and all needing love and care to de-
yelop the best that is In them.
Girls, don't be In o 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 playthings OF your child
hood. How fleeting 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 realize you are the
rosebuds In the garden of lifeP You
are the sweetest things that God ore.
ated. Your voices are like musio-so
upselflsh and sweet, so helpful and
loving that Sad hearts grow glad and
sad faces brighten wherever you go.
Love this youth that God has given
you, and forget not to thank Him for
1t. There are no skeletons In your
closet, no sorfowful memories to bring
the tears to your eye.
hope you are all happy and cheer
full these bright spring days. While
the birds axe building their homes in
hedges and tree tops they are filling
the world with music. Busy from
morning till night, they find time to
sing. D0h't.watt till your work ia done
to s;ng.-sipg and be happy and make
Others happy. 'Yes. FOLLOW tee bird q
example and 60 singing to your work.
Surely God wants us to be cheerful
and happy when He made this world
80 beautiful for us. Kind, cheerful
people bring out tho best that ia in
us, 80 that we oan hardly help being
good while we are under their influ-
enoe. Thore is no sweeter music In
our heavenly Fathers ears than the
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, Innocent soul of young
girlhood.
Girls, have oil the pets you want,
but don't keep any living Shing In con.
anement. DON'T have q sweet little
he& its gsiDgg q inat5 the,
cage, nor d 1ronosum6 squitTeI. Lou
them be free, happy and joyous In
their native element. A fellow-feel
ing makes uS wonderous kind. It has
been eleven Years since / walked the
green earth, and the time seems long
and dreary. 1 often long in the glau
spring time to get away into some
deep tangled wildwood and listen to
the sweet songs of birds In JOYOUS
freedom as they fit from tree to tree
l have learned Lessons of pstlenc,
and submission to the divine will. AS
never 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 hands
they ministored to me when the death
angel seemed very near. None but
God 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
shel6ering wings of the unseen angels
must hover very near our sweet girls.
God bless them and make us worthy
Of their tender devotion.
Pure minded girls aro not only
blessings in their homes. We meet
with them on the high ways and by
ways. One Of them came into my life
as q ministaring angel when was far
from friends, when was bsreft of all
that made life worth living. But we
were as ships passing and hailing each
other as we passed. No girl can be
pure and good without the world be-
Ing the better for 1t and making her
own heart happier. God bless you
all and keep you we'll and happy, and
remember you have the best wishes Of
AUNT sALLlE.