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BFor Woman’s Work.
Hff TDuaiit Was SOo
*T*ED says there aiut uo Santa Claus,
JL But I know better now, because,
How could he have his picture took,
And printed in my little book,
If that was so?
Ted says somebody buys the toys
For all us little girls and boys;
But how’d they know just what to bring
When we tell Santy everything,
If that was so?
Ted says ’fore Christmas our toys stay
Right in the house from day to day;
But I would find them lyin’ ’round;
I’d smell the good things, I’ll be bound,
If that was so.
Ted says no Christmas things come here
Drawn by the prancing, gay reindeer;
So I shall stay awake to-night,
And find out ’fore it is daylight
Jes’ what is so!
Margaret A. Richard.
For Woman’s Work.
nN a far truer sense than many of us comprehend do our hearts make
our world for us.
Every scene which unfolds, panorama-like, in our every day life,
brings to view that which we may treasure as heart pictures to be re
called at will in the years to come, or, that which is so repulsive that
we turn quickly away, striving to forget. Too often are we unmindful
of the probability that under the surface of much which repels at a
first glance, we may find gems of dazzling beauty.
“If we knew when walking thoughtless
Through the crowded, noisy way,
That some pearl of wondrous whiteness
Close beside our pathway lay,
We would pause where now we hasten,
We would often look around,
Lest our careless feet should trample
Some rare jewel in the ground.”
There was to me something touchingly pathetic in watching a fee
ble old woman board a 22nd. Avenue car one morning quite recently.
One trembling, toil-worn hand grasped the side-rail for support, while
with the other she endeavored to hold up the thin black dress, and at
the same time retain her loving clasp of a small posy. Hurrying as
fast as her aged limbs could carry her to a seat, for fear she would lose
her footing on the rapidly moving car, she sat down with aweary sigh,
then turned her attention to her flowers.
The face, though pale and withered with the touch of Time’s mer
ciless fingers, grew soft and tender as she looked at her posy. Follow
ing her gaze I saw three bright yellow dahlias, and several old-fash
ioned lilies. The dahlias were, perhaps, the nearest approach to gold
the old hands had ever handled, while the lilies, breathing their ten
der fragrance, seemed to bring to mind the yesterdays of long ago.
“The scent of a flower can carry us back
Through a vista of long vanished years,
To some scene that lay buried in memory’s tomb
And can move us to gladness or tears.”
How I wondered and longed to know into what labyrinth of sweet
memories her thoughts had wandered as, all forgetful of those about
her, she looked upon her treasures while a smile and a tear-drop lin
gered on the old face, calling to mind the last fading beams of a winter
sunset.
How little, how very little is required to make some hearts happy
in this sad old world! Go, you dear, blessed flowers, on your mission
of love! soon the weary soul will lay down life’s burdens and wander
forever through the sweet fields of Eden, where the flowers are ever
blooming, while one of earth’s wayfarers will perhaps carry always a
dear heart picture which will inspire her to deeds of loving thought
for others, making her rich in experience that angels might covet,
rich in a faith which will grow with the years.
. Ida Ritch Swarts.
WOMAN’S WORK.
For Woman’s Work.
Selfishness.
< 7V( worm that eats into the heart of man,
, All Thriving on all its rarest flowers of
good;
A fire that burns its way thro’ life’s short
span—
Ash’ning the godly rights of brotherhood.
Etta Wallace Miller.
For Woman’s Work.
Training the E\Je.
n VI ALF the men and women go through
ITTI life with their eyes closed to the
hundreds of beautiful and wonderful
things there are in the world. They are
like the modern mechanic, trained only
in one branch of his trade and oblivious
to the intricacies of the rest.
It is a mistake to train any sense or
faculty entirely in one direction. It
makes a person of one idea, so to speak—
a monomaniac.
Compare the power of the eye of the
city denizen, environed by fifteen-story
sky-scrapers, with the child of the for
est, who is seldom housed. The sailor,
whose eye ranges the vast expanse of
waters, has splendid vision.
Children should be encouraged to look
off at a distance, to find and recognize
the different stars, to study the land
scape. Not length of vision alone is es
sential to pleasure in living, but quick
ness and minuteness of sight. A grand
amusement for the young is this:—Ar
range a variety and quantity of objects
on a table and give a number of chil
dren a limited time to look at the same
and then write down what they remem
ber to have seen. The desire to be the
winner in such a contest sharpens the
vision and starts a practice which, if
persisted in, will have marvelous re
sults.
The untrained eye sees a landscape in
bulk; the traiued eye sees every beauty
in every object, and the effect of light
and shade thereupon. We see only
obnoxious bugs and spiders, where the
naturalist perceives the wonderful
mechanism of construction, the wisdom
of the Creator.
We miss so much by being unable to
catch the hidden meanings in Nature
and Art. The trained eye of the artist,
or sculptor, notes the soul back of the
, production, the wind that sways the
trees, the incoming tide: we see paint
and canvas. What we carry to an object
affects mightily what we carry away.
Some can see into a picture; to others it
presents a flat surface.
The power to enjoy through the sense
of sight is unlimited, but like all other
things worth having, it must be made
a subject of study and training.
C. K. Alden.
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