The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-19

that in this day and generation sal the prizes
go to the rich or the influential or TO the
ciety eject is absurd. The prizes go now as
ever to those who work hardest for them.
The young man who has educated himself at
high school by getting up at 2 o'clock in the
morning and distributing newspapers is going
to make a success. The blind young woman
who might have been burden to her friends
Is going tn be self-snpportlng and an insptra-
ton TO others.
There are more chances in this world Tor
young and women than being
ployed. Little shrimp, who are you? Generally
you the boy who wants to smoke cigarettes,
who hates TO study who has love for work
end who prefers Il continuous baseball game
10 productive isbor-~Philadetphia Inquirer
Walkfng%in June.
II needs not the romance of hna sinatien or
youth to tighten the feet of the walker. Aprl
was wet and Its winds blustery, May, to be
sure the greening month the growing
month, the month prophetic of hoped-for sum
mer but give to the walker the early days of
June. when leaves yet light and grasses
soft
/ meant TO do my work to day
But brown bird sang. in the apple tree
And a butterfly fitted across the field.
And all the leaves calling me.
And the wind went signing over the land.
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out ITS shining hand
SO what could do but laugh and goF
Thus wrote Detiatttenne with rare tettth 4f
sympathy We all should go and all would
go. II would only open eyes and unseaf
our ears. Therein lies recompense for living
In a city from which the open fields are easy
of access. The walker doss not need to be
sentimcnta1ist to follow the wind and the rain
bow. lie needs only to forget himself. and
that is what constitutes the perfect unity of
nature In June-the forgetfulness OF self. The
voices OF spring have served to arouse a
hope that needs little encouragement to expand
into understanding. The Bible abounds in such
imagery drawn from Egypt and the cedared
hills OF Lebanon and the sunlit shores of Cali
fee, Tho PSaimist records that the heavens de-
clare the glory Of God, and the armament shew-
eth Ills handiwork" The woods and the fields
the nils and the seas form settings for pro-
phecy.
HI tt.t--rtt-e ev4 4-taAt.tes l5f.a+l4~ hen
knew before. The winter cfaeed old footprints
and SHOWS covered the ruts: later summer will
hide with grass and undergfewth most OF
what winter left, But In June these little trails
are plain and each incites IN the walker de-
sire TO see what lies beyond. Some may lead
up over the HILL some down into ,-avines Not
unlike yet spiritually perceptlve was
glory Of the celestial is one and the glory Of
the terrestrial is another" Isaiah looked be-
You'd the vale when he wrote the grass with
eTefh. the flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand forever" But understanding
this the Psalmist exclaimed: "rherefora WIN
not We fear though the earth be removed, and
though the mountains be carried into the midst
~ the sea" There are other things to he
gained from walk IN June than physical
her the exhortation of old. oh. that men would
praise the Lord for His goodness aud for Hts
wonderful works to the children Of mem
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