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

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Come, girls. and ''enugg!e" up close
to mo while we have q heart-to heart
talk, FOR / expect to g6t BE- much ~ I
give. I want to think of my girls,
whether they are one year or ten or
twenty, as opening fowers-some Of
them early spring beauties, others
summer r0ses-all sweet and tender,
and oil needing love aud care to de-
yelop the best that is In them.
Girls, don't DO in o hurry to reach
young ladyhood and the advantages
you imagine will be gained by 1t. Do
not rob yourself of the rosy flush OF
happy childhood. 1t will soon be
over. You will put away with loving
hands the playthings Of your child
hood. How feeting are the years Of
childhood. AS the years pass they
bring with intelligence and experienoe,
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 4 like musio-so
upselish and sweet, SO helpful and
loving that sad hearts grow glad and
sad faces brighten wherever you go.
Love this youth that Cad has given
you, and forget not to thank Him for
1t. There are no skeletons In you,
closet, no sorrowful memories to bring
the tears to your eye.
h0no un,r N y oil Ho.nDu aud ahnNr-
full these bright spring days. While
che birds are building their homes in
hedges and treo tops they are filling
the world with music. Busy from
morning till night, they find time tc
sing. D6h't.RAtt till your work is done
to sing--sipg and be happy and make
others happy. sYSs, FOLLOW the birds
example and go singing to your work
Surely God wants III to be cheerful
and happy when He made this world
80 beautiful for us. Kind, cheerful
people bring out the best that is in
US, 20 that we hardly help being
good while we are under their infu.
enoe. There iS no sweeter muSio in
our heavenly Fathers ara than the
innocent song and laughter Of his
children, and no sweeter tribute could
aver be made to the weary ones OF
earth than that which comes from
the sparkling, Innocent soul of young
girlhood.
Girls, have all the pets you want,
but don't keep any living thing In con.
1nement. Don't have o sweet little
Haangster haa6ingt ta Wingg a@aingtt the
Gage, nUr & ffoIIosUmG squirrel. Let
them be free, happy and Joyous In
their native element. A fellow-feel
ing makes us wOnderous kind. 1t has
been eleven years since ] walked the
green earth, and the time seems long
and dreary. l often long in the glsu
springtime to get away into some
deep tangled wildwood and listen to
the sweet songs of birds in JOYOUS
freedom az they fit from Tree to tree.
I have learned lessons Of patlence
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 m%inistored to me when the death
angel geemed very ear None but
God Ia sufficiently wise to understand
the heart of Christian girls. They
bring joy and psaoe to their homes
They are their mothers companion
and helpers, and their sweet influence
brings much Of heaYen down to eartt
by. keeping their brothers' wandering
feet In paths Of safety. Surely tht
shelterlng wings OF the unseen angels
must hover very nea u BWaet girls
God bless them and make us worthy
Of their tender devotion.
Pure minded girls ara not only
blessings In their homes. We meet
with them on the high ways and by
ways. One OF them came into my lift
as q m%inlstering angel when l was IA
from friends, when 1 was b0reft Of 81
that made life worth living. But WI
were as ships passing aud mailing eaol
other as we passed. No girl can b.
pure and good without the world be
ing the better for 1t and making he
own heart happier. God bless 20,
all and keep you we'll and happy, AM
remember you have the best wishes 0
AUNT sALLlE.