The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-16
The Courage to Begin
Continually Anew

prohting by the experience of yester-
day, should resolve to avoid the tlisap.
polntments and failures that have re-
suited from Ignorance or carelessnessl
and put In their place the elements out
OF which future success may be de.
veloped.
The worst thing in the world wo-
man can do Is to sit down and be.
moan misfortunes that are past. What
Is done cannot be undone, but even
past misfortune may serve a good pur.
pose If 1t is used as future inspira.
ton In the right direction.
1t Is a good thing to settle up ac-
counts and wipe the slate clean before
closing the eyes at night. Then, In
the morning vision is clear, and the
mind can concentrate with full force
The time that Woman wastes In
being sorry over her mistakes and
their consequences is time lost indeed.
Women teach their children the old
! lines which say: IF at first you don's
succeed, try, try, again" and nine
tenths of womenkind make no prac.
tical application of the wisdom in the
lines, so far as their own lives ara
concerned
Life can only be lived a day at a
time. In the days that make up It's
sum there will be dark days and bright
days, happy days and sorrowfu1 days.
but IL the heart of woman beats high
with courage through them all, there
Will be none SO diff1cult but what She
will surmount the diflicnlties and go on
to begin her round anew.
Women are naturally courageous.
not cowardly. They are not afraid to
face what Is ahead of them. because
that which has gone before has been
sordid or unpleasant; but they are
inclined to look backward. rather than
forward, and they easily lose confidence
In themselves because their training
has not been OF the kind which fosters
sustained effort and Independence In
decision and outlook.
Women are also impatient. What
they desire, they desire Immediately
The long walt, the slow fruitage of
days passing into years, even though
the days come one by one, wastes their
determination and saps their energies,
their vitalizng force. They have not
yet learned that the courage to begin
continually anew may be defined by
one word-patience.
When women given an object Lesson
in the exercise of patience, indeed,
their self-oontrol will be expressed
in calmness; they will have learned
how to bear burdens and bide their
time without protest: their work will
be done, in watching and waiting, 1t
is true, but without WEAKNESS or worry
and the simple heroism of their every
day life will be a revelation OF con-
tinuous reserve power.
There's an hour for each when the
angels speech
To the tongue of man is given
When the earth Is crossed as at PEN
tecost
BY the rushing fires Of heaven:
But the common way is for every day.
And we common folk must face 1t
With a common smile for each common
mile
! And the little flowers that grace it.
TO trudge and trust in the daily dust
With comrade tried and cherry
TO lift the eyes to the heartening
skies
When the plodding feet grow weary.
Is to bless the road and the hopes that
goad
And the beckoning stars that guide
me.
The common way that's for every day
Is the way you walk beside me.
The world must plod at the call Of
God
On a weary march and holy,
From best to best, toward an end un-
guessed.
But Observation-Disclosures
So the lot we bear with all life we
share,
And the goal of all life's growing;
For the common way that's for every
day
Is the way of Gods own going.
Amelia Josephine Burr, In Designer
Ten Making and Drinking.
OF the ways of making tea there Is
no end. Each country has its prefer
ence. In China. the earliest OF tea
drinking nations, they drop few
leaves in howl. pour on boiling
water. stir with little broom straw
and. then drink the decootion. In
Japan, which borrowed the blessed
leaf" from its neighbor as far back as
$40, there is a whole elaborate and
dainty ceremony connected With Its
use. In Morocco they put tea, tansy
and sugar In pot, boil all together
and drink the result! In Russia they
boil the tea with a little salt. and use
lime Juice. In Bokhara each man car.
rles around with him his own little
bag of tea AS for the use OF cream
and sugar who first conceived the
mixture? It has been so long the
popular mode of drinking 1t. that the
originator is lost in the mystery OF
tho past
Lovers of the gentle herb have heen
innumerahle and OF both sexes. Many
OF them lave written of 1t, but few
with the fervor hreathed in these lines,
from Colley Cibber's ''Ladys Last
Stake"
"Tea, thou soft, thou sober, sage and
venerable liquid thou female-tongue
running, smoothing, heart-opep-
ing, wink-t tipping cordial, to whose
glorious inspidity I owe the manifest
moment of my life, let me fall pros
trate.''
Lack of True Reverence.
Much Is said about the evil Of,
money worship; and 1t is an evil But
there is a greater--and that greater
- aSn,r