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THE YOUNG SOUTHERNER
All communications and contributions intended
for this department should be addressed to Mrs.
Louise T. Hedges, 83 East Avenue, Atlanta, Ga.
Oh, sweeter than the marriage feast,
’Tis sweeter far to me
To walk together to the kirk
With a goodly company!
To walk together to the kirk
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends—
Old men and babes and loving friends
And youths and maidens gay!
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
—Ancient Mariner.
“They helped every one his neighbors, and every
one said to his brother, “Be of good courage.”
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and
he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote
the anvil.”—lsaiah.
Sympathy and encoragement are great factors
in alleviating suffering, overcoming difficulties, and
stimulating to best endeavor. The knowledge that
other hearts share our sorrows and our joys; re
joice at our success and grieve at our failures, is a
constant inspiration.
When the spirit of the Psalmist was overwhelmed
on account of his many sorrows, he instinctively
craved human sympathy and when he looked about
him and found that the refuge of friendship failed
him, he cried out in his agony: “No man cared
for my soul.”
’ How easy it is to give a look of sympathy or a
word of encouragement, yet how often do we,
through indifference or thoughtfulness, withhold
them.
With Correspondents.
Dear Mrs. Hodges:
In representing the “Golden Age,” I meet a
great number of young people who are drifting
along with the world and seem not to see the golden
opportunities that present themselves each day. I
tell them this paper is published to inspire them
that they may see the opportunities which are before
them. I trust I am representing it right.
I would like to see letters each week from some
of the young people which tell of their own trials,
attempts, pleasures, failures and successes. I think
it would be such an inspiration to us to know of each
other’s battles and victories.
I like to hear, too, of the deeds of great and good
men and women.
I like pieces that have literary value, including
some poetry.
I wish this page success and desire to help make
it successful. Yours,
Gloster, Miss. . Barney Thompson.
Dear Editor:
We take th j Golden Age, and like it very much,
and wish it would come oftener.
You asked the children what they would like
best on the page, for the Young Southerner. I would
like best to read about good Christian men and wo
men like Dr. Moody and other good preachers.
I wonder if many of the Young Southerners sent
for one of Thomas F. Lockhart’s little books. I
did. and I like it very much. I mean to send for
some more.
He said in his book, complaining and faultfinding
is such a disagreeable habit, and there is nothing
to be gained by it. So, Young Southerners, let’s all
try not to complain and find fault with anybody.
Conducted by Lo’ufse Three te Hodges.
1 know we will be happier and make other people
so, too.
I wonder if any of the Young Southerners had
“speaking” at the close of their school.
I went to the speaking at Wynnton High School.
Their subject was “Grasp Opportunities.” That is
a grand subject; and to think of the times we have
let opportunities slip by!
I will close, as my letter is getting long.
Your true friend,
Columbus, Ga. Pauline Thornton.
Dear Editor:
I am afraid I cannot write a very interesting let
ter, but since the Golden Age is kind enough to
give a page, especially to the interest of the chil
dren, I think we all ought to show our apprecia
tion of it by trying to help make it pleasing and
interesting.
We should all do our part like the stars shining
in the heavens. Os course one star by itself can’t
shine very much, but all shining together, make
the night beautiful. I think we ought to tell of
the many things we have to make us happy. I
feel so sorry for those afflicted ones who have writ
ten to the Young Southerner. But they seem to
try to be contented and happy and I think the rest
of us who are not afflicted ought never to com
plain even if we can’t have everything we want.
I am very glad that I can go to school and to
church and to visit my friends. I am glad, too,
that I have nice books to read and can see the flow
ers and hear the birds. And I am glad that I can
help to take care of my little brother, and that he
loves me and likes for me to play with him.
I hope a great many of the girls will write let
ters. I like so much to see their names, and I feel
like I am getting acquainted with them.
Bessie Ellis Mayne.
Do It Now.
Don’t live a single hour of your life without
doing exactly what is to be done in it, and going
straight through it from beginning to end. Work,
play, study, whatever it is—take hold at once and
finish it up squarely and cleanly; and then to the
next thing, without letting any moments drop out
between. It is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people contrive to make of a day.
And if ever you find yourself where you have so
many things pressing upon you that you hardly
know how to begin; let me tell you a secret: take
hold of the very first one that comes to hand, and
you will find the rest all fall into file and follow
after, like a company of well-drilled soldiers; and
though work may be hard to meet when if charges
in a squad, it is easily vanquished if you can bring
it into line.
Strengthen the Home Ties.
Devotion to business is important; pleasurable
recreation is essential to health; but love of home
and delight in the friendships of the fireside are
the most ennobling and the most precious of all
earthly activities and blessings. Hence the impor
tance of their being appreciated and fostered.
Business should not be permitted to detract from
the love of home. Social recreation at the summer
resorts should never be allowed to infringe upon the
friendships of the fireside. Neglect the home until
it is no longer a home, sever the fireside ties until
they lose their power to entrance, thrill with joy
and satisfy, and then what have you left that makes
life worth living?
Home, home! sweet, sweet home!
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
—Religious Telescope.
The goose is trained by the inhabitants of Siam
to give a hoot like a motor ear horn whenever a
stranger approaches.
The Golden Age for August 9,1906.
The Power of Habit.
Carlyle says; “Habit is the deepest law of hu
man nature. It is our supreme strength, if also,
in certain circumstances, our miserablest weakness.
Let me go once, scanning my way with any earnest
ness of outlook, and successfully arriving, my
footsteps are an invitation to me a second time
to go by the same way—it is easier than any other
way. Habit is our primal fundamental law—habit
and imitation; there is nothing more perennial in us
than these two. They are the source of all work
ing, and all apprenticeship, of all practice and
learning in the world.”
Practically every achievement of the human race
is but the accomplishment of habit. The habit of
industry, at first is very irksome and tedious; but
practiced conscientiously and persistently, it be
comes natural, and gains a momentum which makes
man a marvel of efficiency.
A habit of cheerfulness, of always looking on the
bright side of things, is, as Sydney Smith said,
worth a thousand pounds a year. In fact, the val-
Practically, ever yachievement of the human race
the best and not the worst, the habit of an optimis
tic outlook upon life, as a success factor, cannot be
measured by money. It saves an enormous waste
of energy which can be utilized to perform the work
of life.
A habit of happy thought would transform the
commonest life into one of harmony and beauty.
The Habit of Enjoying.
Nothing contributes more to the highest success
than the formation of a habit of enjoying things.
Whatever your calling in life may be, whatever mis
fortune or hardships may come to you, make up your
mind resolutely that, come what may, you will get
the most possible real enjoyment out of every day;
that you will increase your capacity for enjoying
life, by trying to find the sunny side of every ex
perience of the day. Resolutely determine that yon
will see the humorous side of things. No matter
how hard or unyielding your environment may
seem to be, there is a sunny side if you can only
see it. Make up your .mind that you will be an
optimist, that there shall be nothing of the pessi
mist about you, that you will carry your own
sunshine wherever you go.
There is longevity in the sunny soul that eases
our jolts and makes our sides shake with laugh
ter.
There is a wonderful medicinal effect in good
cheer. Good news and glad tidings have a magic
effect even upon invalids.
We often see a whole store or factory or home
transformed by one sunny soul. On the other hand
we have seen them blighted and made dark by a
gloomy, morose, fault-finding person.—Success.
Associative Memory—“ Tommy, what ancient
king was it who played on the fiddle while Rome was
burning?”
“Hector, ma’am.”
“No, no—not Hector.’’
“Then it was Dook.”
“Duke? What do you mean, Tommy?”
“Well, then it must a’ been Nero. I knowed it
wuz somebody with a dog’s name.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A Future Orator—Johnny recited one stanza of
the “Psalm of Life” to the delight of his proud
mamma and amid the plaudits of the company:
“Liza Grape men allry mindus
Weaken maka Liza Blime,
And Parting Lee B. Hindus
Footbrin Johnny Sands a time!”
■—Ladies’ Home Journal.