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VOICES OF YOUTH
DID YOU KNOW, DEAR?
Lenora Foster.
Did you know, dear, that withered,
faded
Rose you carelessly flung away,
Brought smiles to the lips and sun
shine
To the heart of the beggar child at
play?
Did you know, dear, that kindly word
You spoke to the woman old and
gray,
Fell on her ear like the chime
Os evening bells far, far away?
Did you know, dear, each loving
glance,
Each precious deed of love or help
ing hand,
Is to your way-worn brother
Like the “shadow of a rock in a
weary land”?
Did you know, dear heart, your bonny
self
Is the budding bloom and flower
Os your own little home nest,
Mid singing birds and leafy bower?
Did you know, dear, the old paths,
That have long been tried and true,
Are best for young and tender feet,
They point the way to heaven’s
blue?
Did you know, dear, to scatter the
roses
All through life’s chequered, uneven
way,
And God shall wreathe a crown of im
mortelle
For you to wear some sweet day?
With ©nr Correspondents
HOW THEY PREPARED FOR MAR
RIAGE.
Marriage is not so fashionable now
as it was half a century ago. Then
it was the rule and the exceptions
were few. The girl learned to look
forward to marriage when she was a
school miss in high-necked aprons. In
most households, the mother kept a
special chest in which she began fond
ly to store choice bits of linen and
lace for the wedding outfit. “As the
girl grew up she was taught to sew,
to cook and to take care of the house,
and the sick,” says Mrs. Davis, writ
ing of the old-fashioned girl, “with the
frank understanding that she was be
ing trained for her future work with
her own home and children. What
better work —the world thought then —
than to marry and make a happy home
for a husband and to rear children for
God’s service? The woman who miss
ed this work was looked upon as a be
ing to be pitied.”
It was pretty much the same with
the other sex. If a young fellow
worked hard and saved his money, it
was that he might marry the girl he
loved, and have a home and standing
of his own among men. I don’t see
that the new order of things—the
bachelor business girl—and the youth
who says complacently: “I have am
bitions; I am not a marrying man,”
is an improvement on the old-fashioned
young folks. I very much doubt if
these new young people are as happy
as were their early-wedded grand
parents in their youth. One is re
lieved to see that, despite the changes
that have sent women into the busi
ness world and have raised the stand
ard of polite living so high that many
prudent young people are afraid to
marry on a small income,' the mar-
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riage license bureau is still kept rea
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being founded all the while.
BUSYBODY.
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COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS.
Good old summer time is with us
again. Doesn’t this season of the year
make you feel happy and thankful?
It would take days and days to enum
erate even the blessings of one day,
and most of these blessings are just
every-day matters that we never think
of. What would life be without the
blessing of sight? Yet, many people
without their eyesight could teach us
a lesson in patience and cheerfulness.
I know a boy who has been blind
since he was six weeks old, yet he
is the brightest, happiest Christian I
have seen, in a long time. He assists
in meetings by giving bright, helpful
talks and singing. How many of us,
with more blessings than he has, do
as much for our Lord? I am afraid
not many. ( So, let us hereafter, when
we are inclined to grumble, stop a
moment and count -our blessings. I
am sure we will get ashamed and stop.
“A READER.”
ANOTHER CRIPPLE COMES.
Dear Brother Willie: I have been a
reader of your valuable paper ever
since it was started, and I enjoy read
ing it very much. I notice you have
several cripples writing in the dear
old Golden Age, so I will now ask to
be admitted as one more cripple on
the list. Now, just to make a long
story short, I will tell you how I be
came a cripple. It happened this way:
In a railroad accident I lost both legs
and had one arm crushed and a bad
lick on the head; and that is why I
am not able to get about much. But
I read a great deal and pass the
long hot days in that way. I hope
that this poor letter will miss the
waste basket; if so, I will try and
write again. Wishing all a good time,
I remain, yours in trouble,
G. THOS. BROCK.
Commerce, Ga., R. F. D. No. 30.
While we are always glad to wel
come strangers into our young peo
ple’s circle, it gives us special pleasure
to reach out the hand of sympathy and
welcome to one whose life is shadowed
by being crippled. G. Thos Brock (we
will just call him Tom Brock for short)
is a noble boy, personally known and
related to the editor, and the recent
loss of both limbs is a sad blow to a
promising young life, but we are glad
to learn in a private letter that he is
determined to educate and prepare
himself for a life of usefulness.
ON BED IN SUMMER.
Dear Brother Willie:
Please tell the Household readers
that I am spending summer on the
bed. Since the last of June I have
been very sick, indeed. For three
weeks it seemed as if I would never
pull through. Now I am slowly im
proving, but, under the circumstances,
it will be some time before I will be
well. Yet, I hope to be able to be up
in my chair again some day and take
up my work and writing. It certainly
is hard to be on bed this extremely hot
weather. “What can’t be cured must
be endured,” so I try to have patience
and trust in Providence. I thank all
who gave me an order for my little
book,' “A Little Sunbeam.” It has cer
tainly has been a help during my ill-
Ware’s Black Powder
digestion. Flux arid Headache. Write Patton-Worsham
Drug Company, Dallas, Texas, for Circular.
The Golden Age for August 15, 1907.
ness. I have enough for all, so if any
more feel like they care to read one,
the order would be thankfully re
ceived. Letters are so much sunshine
to me while on the bed, that I want to
hear from every reader of The Golden
Age. I want to read a sure enough
letter from “Bro. Willie.” I thank
Miss Sallie B. Lackey for her words
of good cheer, and extend her a good
old “handshake” in return for hers.
Yes, we must take courage, keep
sweet, look up—not down. Hoping to
hear from you all soon, I remain, your
friend, I. H. N.
MOLLIE E. WILLIS.
Barnesville, Ga., Route 3.
We gladly give place to the above
letter from our little invalid friend,
Mollie Willis. lam sure if every read
er could see her in her helpless con
dition as I have done, she would re
ceive many orders for her beautiful,
illustrated book, “A Little Sunbeam.”
It has 200 pages and is very attract
ive. The paper binding is 50 cents,
postpaid, and the cloth bound cover,
sl. Send for a copy, write her a good
letter and cheer her sick room during
these hot, lonely summer days.—The
Editor.
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“OPPORTUNITY” AND THE DEVIL.
Dear Brother Willie:
It was about thirty minutes before
I began reading the paper and found
that piece about the puzzle. After I
finished reading it I thought for a sec
ond or two, and I got it in my mind
that it was the “Old Devil.” I am in
hope that it is right. I may have sent
mine too late for others, but if you
have received others first, I guess they
lived in town where they could get to
the postoflice early.
Brother Willie, I have been going
to school at the U. B. 1., at Mt. Ver
non, a year, and I certainly do like it.
It is a fine school. I have a sister
named Nettie who will finish in mu
sic next summer and she will then go
to Bessie Tift at Forsyth. Hoping my
answer is correct. Yours sincerely,
JENNIE MOSELEY.
Lyons, Ga.
P. S. —Brother Willie, I forgot to say
how I liked The Golden Age. Why, I
like it splendidly. I enjoy reading it
so much. J. M.
The above letter from Jennie Mose
ley was misplaced—hence the delay in
publishing. Really, it was not expect
ed that we would publish all or even
any of the answers to the “Oppor
tunity” puzzle, but Jennie’s mistaking
“Opportunity” for Satan is so amus
ing that we decided to give others the
benefit of her novel interpretation.
But after all, her answer is very sug
gestive, for. the devil is always watch
ing every opportunity possible to en
. snare young hearts and lead them
astray.
*
PERRY TAYLOR IS GLAD.
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
To you, who are many, in this, our
beautiful southland, guess you have
about decided that I have deserted
you in not writing for some time, but
I am glad to say that I haven’t. A]£d,
while I have not written for several
weeks, it doesn’t mean that I have
paid any less attention to your good
letters. What has become of our anti
cigarette workers? I haven’t heard
from any of them now for some time.
Guess they have all been busy in that
great and victorious fight for prohibi
tion. If so, they have fought a good
fight. Thanks be to God the Father,
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