El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-04

in winning from them the laws govern
! ing these things.
So long as you regard time as a
cruel monopoIist who will wrest from
you all your dearest possessions and
give you nothing in return, you are
preparing the way for such fears to
materialize.
But it rests with you to make the
years generous and benevolent instead
of grasping and cruel
1t has been the custom of the fool
ish world for ages to think talk and
write of beauty, joy and happiness IS
pertaining only to early youth.
This same foolish and mistaken
world has educated woman in the idea
that each year, after her first score
comes to her as an enemy highway
man-bent upon rObDing her Of all she
holds most precious.
It has taught man to regard as a
limited one his period of mental and
physical prOwess; and so these false
and unWhOlesOme traditions have
helped to hUrI the race into premature
decay and death.
The wise individual faces each year
with expectancy and courage, mingled
with reverence, yet with an inner cor
sciousness of superiority.
On her birthday anniversary morning
every woman should talk with the year
which is coming as with a friend who
is crossing her threshold to bring her
gifts. Let her say, ''Oh year, I welcome
me walk beside you and listen to all
the secrets which you keep in your
great soul for my sharing. You can
teach me the divine laws Of health,
beauty. peace, usefulness and conse-
quent happiness. You can teach me
order and system in all my ways. You
can impress upon me the power which
comes through the exercise of patience;
the strength which results from cold
rains and biting frosts; the pleasure
which lies in giving of bounty to 9TH
ers, and the dignity and pride which
accompany the preparation of beaUti-
full and appropriate apparel for each
season.
IF I breathe in your pure airs, if
I live according to those natural laws
which govern you, if I accept the
spring, the summer, the autumn, the
winter of life as perfect expressions
of Gods bounty, then I, too, may grow
in beauty and charm and OpUlence as
the year grows. You have come to
teach me these truths; you have come
to help me- and will be richer and
happier from your association. And I
will be able to understand your laws
of perpetual regeneration and to illus
trate them"
Men Should Welcome Each Year.
Each man should welcome the year
which adds maturity to his life al a
teacher who has come to instruct him
in power and knowledge of the deeper
meanings of existence. He should eX-
pect to grow in strength and worth
and to make a nObler example of his
life with the passing Of each 2 months.
Those who face the years with such
resolutions and who determine to be
the recipients, not the losers, in their
encounter with time. will find life
growing richer and more interesting
as they pass from early youth into
maturity and from maturity into the
still larger field of vision afforded as
they climb the western hill.
Expect Much From the Years.
For the last earthly journey is not
a descent, but a climb, for those who
take toll from the years instead of
pay .ng it
We should not talk of going down
into the valley of death or old age.
We should stand upon the summit
of hill from where we behold the
world we have traversed and the shin
ing peaks of the world beyond, with
er we are going.
Expect much of the years Then set