The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-02-14
Home Circle Column.
Success Only Through Toll,

Our young readers of this column
especially the young m~en-ghould re-
member that success is. found most Of
ten in the path of toll. There is no
way to genuine success except through
toil-either by head or hand. At the
battle of Crecy in 1876, the Prince of
Wales, finding himself heavily pressed
by the enemy, sent word to his father
for help. The father, watching the bat
tie from a windmill. and seeing his son
was not wounded and could gain the day
if he would, sent word, "No, | will not
Let the boy win his spurs, for.
if God wills, | desire this to be his with
all its honors." Young man, fight your
W battles all through and you will
have the victory. Oh it is a battle
worth fighting. Two monarchs of old
fought a duel, Charles V and Francis,
and stakes were kingdoms, Milan and
Burgundy. You fight with sin and the
stake is heaven or hell.
Dc not get the fatal idea that you are
a genius, and that therefore there is no
need of close application. 1t is here
that multitudes fail. The curse of the
age is the geniuses; men with enor-
nous ~self-cOnceit and egotism, and moth
ing else. We had rath ar be an OK than
an eagle; plain and plod, dim and use
full, rather than high-flying and good
for nothing but to pick out the eye of
carcasses. Extraordinary capacity with
out work is, most generally, extraordi-
nary failure. There is no hope for the
person who begins life resolved to live
by his wits, for the probability IS that
he has not any. 1t was not safe for
Adam, ven ir his unfallen state, to
have nothing to do, and therefore God
commanded him to be a farmer and
horticulturist. He was to dress the
garden and keep it, and had he and his
wife obeyed the divine injunction and
been at work, they would not have
been sauntering under the trees and
hankering after the fruit that destroyed
them and their posterity; a proof posi-
tive for all ages to come that those who
do not attend TO their business are sure
to get into mischief.
Valentines are provided for all; like
the rain, they may descend upon the
just and the unjust.
The fourteenth of February is a day
sacred to St. Valentine. 1t was a very
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that on this ~day/birds begin to couple;
hence. perhaps, arose the custom of
sending on this date letters containing
confessions of love and affection.
The boys and girls look at the older
people and see what they do. They
watch the words of the fathers, moth
ers and the friends, and take their cue
quickly. Even the little one are ever
watchful to see just how closely father
and mother adhere to the truth.
Your body is your hest friend while
you inhabit it, therefore take the best
possible care of it. Only a %simpleton is
ashamed Of bestowing care on it-of
keeping teeth, hands, feet, hair and
skin in the best possible condition. 1t
takes but a little while, when the days
toll is over, to sit down before a mirror
and battle in warm water, neck, face
and hands, drying them with a soft
towel and rubbing every part thoroly.
A touch of sweet cream rubbed on
where needed is very good. One feels
SO refreshed and respectable after the
operation that the habit, when formed,
is hard to give over when circumstances
do not admit of it.
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