Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — Advice to the Girls. [ARTICLE]

Advice to the Girls.

When a man chooses the profession of law he does not expect to be a musician and a journalist also ; he knows that if he would succeed he .must devote himself to the one chosen calling. When a woman marries she realizes that in order to reach lofty heights in wife and motherhood she must sacrifice lesser aims. She must be willing to lay aside the delightful occupations which have made her girlhood pleasant; she must know that from the hour when her baby is laid in the cradle, dressed with loving forethought, to that darker hour when the mature man lies down in his last sleep, that she will give full meaning to the words, “Constant care.” That her mind once unfettered will be at liberty no more, but is bound by ties stronger than life or death to those who have come to her from out of the great unknown. Wait a while, girls : think it all over before you promise to become wives—to take these duties and burdens upon you, Sweet and satisfying as are the obligations of wife and mother, they are not to be taken lightly. A husband must not be looked upon as a sort of perpetual beau, and children as extremely uncertain and improbable adjuncts. Unless, like Wilhelm Meister, your apprenticeship ended, you reach out of yourself and ask for larger duties, for a -wider field of labor, you had better stay at home with father and mother, dignifying the relation of daughter, filling the old established home with a mild radiance which would seem but a dim light in a new one.— New York. A poet prays “ O that my dream may come true !” We infer that he didn’t dream that he was seized by a giant fourteen feet tall and thrown over a three-story house, landing on the point of a red-hot skewer, which impaled him to the earth while seven imps of darkness gouged his eyes out “one by one.”. Persons have such dreams, we’ve been told. We’ve had dreams ourself that we wouldn’t have come true for two dollars and a half in gold.— Norristown Heraid. It is a small thing to be wronged, but » horrible thing to wrong,