The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-14
WHO BELIEVE IN FATE.

Success, the mark no mortal wit
Or slirest hand can always hit;
For, whatsoe'er we perpetrate,
We do but vow; were Steereo oy Iate
Which in success oft disinherits,
For spurious causes. noblest merits.
Who has not heard of Micawber,
that famous character in fiction, who
was always waiting for fate to turn
UP some good luck for him, always
waiting.
There are more Micawbers in this
world than people imagine-supposed-
ly sensible men and women who de-
voutly believe If you are destined to
have good luck it will come to you
whether you put forth any effort or
not. The years and disappointments
do not show them their errors of judy
ment-they still continue to believe in
fate.
1t is comforting to have some kind
of hope to pin ones faith to, but those
with the ability to reason conditions
out for themselves are firm in the
opinion that people with but few ex-
ceptions. make their own fate, wheth-
er good or i'll.
1t takes determination for girl
who has no money to go forth to Sc
cure a position, but she would wait
forever and day for a position to
come in search of her. All life's at
fairs work on the same general prin-
ciple.
There are young women who be-
lieve because they are thrown in
particular mans society. that he must
surely be intended as the one to wed,
no matter what his faults or follies
may be. Girls who are not bound
down by 'fate notions" give the mat
ter Of marriage deep and serious
thought. They will not encourage a
would-be sutton whom they know to
be a drunkard, prof1igate or work
shirker, for they can look ahead and
see what little chance Of happiness
they might expect.
Fate makes no ones Id; you make
it yourself if you willfully accept that
which you know to be baneful.
Young girls should be encouraged to
plan out their future. 1t is mistake
to persist in the belief that this cannot
be done, but it must be planned along
useful lines. Too many mothers bring
up their daughters with the belief that
the sole object of their existence
after their sixteenth or eighteenth
BIRTHDAYS catching beau, and a
little later on marrying him.
More careful mothers direct their
girls minds at a tender age from love
and matrimony, teaching them useful
knowledge-if poor, how to become
saving housekeepers and home-makers
even before a manageable young
man comes a-wooing.
The well-to-do mother teaches her
daughter the subtle power of congeni,
atty and to discard dozen suitors
until she meets a man who Is worth
her love, and would wed her for her
self alone. If the parents of rich
girls believed in fate adventures
would have a rich field. The parents
of such girls listen to the story of the
meeting of the two young people, the
attraction each has for the other and
so forth, but instead of setting it down
as fate that they should look, love and
wed. they bring the young man to a
practical view of the situation, telling
him when fate shows him the solu-
ton of how he is to make as good a
living for their daughter as they are
now doing, they may listen to his pro-
posal.
He may still continue to have an
abiding faith in fate. but he realizes
that hustling brings the fruition of his
dreams much sooner.