Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-10
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, those who die the halo OF death.
And around the mead Of lad or maid
en-. man or woman. who in lov" ;
supreme and sacred season. is sin
ccrc, there shines the roSc-colorrd
halo OF love. To those who love
truly. all life is lifted to an immcaS.
ur.bic nob!rr plane for love i> the
awakening OF all that is good and
honorable.
Thus far | have dealt only with
ideals, and to young or old, would
say: Have your ideals and hold fast
TO them, but see To it that you dc
not form false ideals False ideals
have wrecked the happiness of many
a home. For Yourself, you cannot
set too high a standard; for yourself
you must fight to the last against
what LongIcllow calls:
The longing for ignuble things.
The strife inr triumph more than truth
ne lldIutiiinH Ol iiit htdrt tDtl brings
lrrevercnce for tie dreams of youth"
But for others remember ALWAYS
that they are not spirits, bat fraiI
mortalS of flesh and blood. in whom
you will find IL human being, full
share Of failings and faults Emcr
son once said something TO the effect
that if an angel came to preach the
moral law, it would not surprise
him To find that the winged visitor
kept a bottle somewhere in Il cup
board, or opened private letters. or
had an Objectionable habit Of repeat
ing what had been said in contdcn
tial conversation.
Well, the young man. who. by the
slipping of Il ring over her finger.
has changed his sweetheart into a
wife, and thinks he has taken an
angel to his home, will awake one
day to find her j just a woman.
(Shc need be none the less an angel
in his eyes for that She is worried
about the housekeeping perhaps. and
is Il little short of temper. Or
she cant make her accounts come
right; or she has some Slight ailment
about which she thinks him IN
sympathetic, and he thinks her dis
posed to make unnecessary fuss.
And as Il consequence she snaps
him when he complains about din
ner being late. and he snaps" back
and the one wonders whether the
knight - the other. whether the
angel of the courtship days, had any
real existence ut all
If the wife be wise and the hus-
band forbearing, and both 90 to
work to Sift what is true from what
is false in their ideals, all will soon
come right ht-unless, of course, one or
both have made a fatal mistake in
the choice of helpmatc And this
brings Inc to practical point No. >
We must bear in mind that an
ape, rs well an angel, lies latent in
every human heart. The mother
knows that there are possibilities OF
evil, as well as possibilities of good,
in the child she loves, and it must be
her lifes aim to eradicate what is
evil, to foster and develop what is
good. Next to mother, no one has
such power to cnt:ce us to good, to
compel us to evil, as the man or wo.
man to whom our whole heart is
given. But, on the other hand, thcl,
is this to be remembered: that we
become like what we love, and nc
one, man or woman, youth, Or girl,
should allow his or her heart to &C
out in love to 4 person for whom it is
impossible to feel respect.
Do not misunderstood me. The
fact that the man or woman, the
youth or maiden, whom you love. has
faults, is no reason why the loved
one should forfeit your respect, 50
long as she or he is striving to over
come those faults:
Nay. deem not thus-not earth-boi II
will
! Gould ever trace "A faultless line
Our truest steps are human still.
| 40 walk unswervinG We're divine"
The very fact that your loved one
has faults should touch YOU to COM
passion; should draw close the bonds
that unite the two of YOU in com
mon humanity, and you may love
such one, not only for what that
| one is seeking to be. That which, in
our truer moments. we have striven
to be, the ideal upon which our eyes
are fixed, to which mo matter how
sorely we may have sinned against
it in our weaker mOmentS) our
thoughts persistently return with
unabatcd, ever-increasing, longing
and love, that in some measure we
already are
But when you see man or woman.
youth or girl. given up to what is
base and low, and content to remain
given up to what is base and low,
pity such a one with all your heart :;