Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
SMILING in the business
OF MARRIAGE
To be sure it is hard to smile when
food stuffs are gradually soaring out
of reach, when one and one-half dol
lars has been added to the cost of
each ton of coal, when the dollars
needed for a new dress or hat are not
forthcoming; but it is a part of the
business of marriage to smile and
then keep on smiling. The wife and
the mother who realizes this and then
puts it in practice will be happier
herself and will prove a better com
rade to both husband and children
than if she forgets this big little act
of duty and devotion. Then too, it
is a great credit to one to be able to
smile when “everything goes dead
wrong.”
Being cheerful becomes a habit and
even so being cross and miserable
grows to be a part of one’s self.
Some people are “jes natully” mis
erable, married, or unmarried, any
how, anywhere. They belong to the
class of people who would rather be
anybody but themselves and rather
be anywhere than where they are. Be
happy, they cannot, for they are out
of harmony with themselves and every
one else, but the great mass of those
in the business of marriage should be
happy. It is the heritage of mother,
wife, husband, father and child.
Cheerfulness is contagious and
nothing is of greater intrinsic value
than a smile when the way is rough
and up hill. It seems that reverses
and poverty, most of all, put to test
the brittle chain of marriage. Those
who together face difficulties and
overcome obstacles will find greater
enjoyment when full success has come
to them or will be able to smile and
courageously meet any reverses fate
may have in store.
Say what we will, do what we may,
our highest good can only be secured
when we live in harmony and cheer
fulness with those nearest us; when
we put smiling into the business of
marriage. L. S. E.
LET ME BUT LIVE
By Henry Van Dyke
Let me but live my life from year to
year,
With forward face and unreluctant
soul,
Not hastening to nor turning from
the goal;
Not mourning for the things that
disappear
In the dim past, nor holding back in
fear
From what the future veils, but
with a whole
And happy heart, that pays its toll
To Youth and Age, and travels on
with cheer.
So let the way wind up the hill or
down,
Through rough or smooth the jour
ney will be joy:
Still seeking what I sought when but
a boy,
New friendship, high adventure, and
a crown,
I shall grow old, but never lose life’s
zest,
Because the road’s last turn will be
the best.
The little child’s heart! Look down
into it; it is like the vault of a wild,
wild flower; apparently tenantless but
full of little secrets; secrets unknown
to itself—secrets worth knowing, life’s
capital. Sweet little vault, where God
has locked up creation’s destiny!—
Victor Hugo.
A poor man served by thee
Shall make thee rich;
A sick man helped by thee
Shall make thee strong,
Thou shalt be served thyself by every
sense
Of service which thou renderest.
—E. B. Browning.
RECOGNITION FOR THE NEGRO
In commenting, editorially, on the
appointment of Dr. Roberts to mem
bership on the New York Board of
Education, The Pittsburg Gazette
Times has the following to say:
“Renewed discussion of the Negro
‘question’ may be expected as a re
sult of Mayor Mitchell’s appointment
of Dr. E. P. Roberts to membership
of the Board of Education of New
York. Indignation will be expressed
in quarters which are given to out
bursts whenever recognition in ac
cordance with their deserts are given
the Negroes, but enlightened, toler
ant and progressive people will ap
plaud Mr. Mitchell’s action and wish
Dr. Roberts well in the honorary
post to which he has been appointed.
It may be taken for granted that he
is qualified for the work, and it is a
fair assumption that the very strange
ness of his position and the inevit
able opposition to his selection will
prompt him to greater diligence and
more intelligent effort than are given
to the school service by some of the
other nearly half a hundred members
of the board. If he does, he will con
found the critics of the Mayor and
considerably advance the members of
his race in popular estimation.
“By the last census there were
only 91,709 Negroes in Greater New
York, not quite 2 per cent of the
population, but a number sufficient to
command recognition in the selection
of public school managers, especially
in a community that is given to af
fording representation to almost all
of its varied elements in the conduct
of public affairs. But the main point
for consideration is that the Negroes
are with us on an equality of citizen
ship with the whites and if justice
is to be done them and the more
numerous Caucasians are not to pile
up great trouble for themselves in
the future they must be treated in
accordance with their merits. It is
important not only that they be made
good citizens, but that it be made
worth their while to be good citizens.
Neither can be hoped for if the Ne
groes are to be discriminated against
so that honorable ambition on their
part is forever impossible of achieve
ment.”
Try the Poro System. It will over
come a multitude of troubles that have
arisen from neglect and faulty treat
ment of the scalp. For quick and
lasting results. Call Douglas 7689.
Mrs Susie Smith.—Adv.
For Chills use our $5.00 coal or
your kind at Harmon & Weeth. Web.
848.
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