Her story, if it teaches any thing, assures us that it is always
best to have in youth, whether as girl or boy, the guidance and
direction of some will that is acknowledged and respected.
Natures unformed or over-indulged, with none to counsel or
command, generally go wrong. A mother's love, a father's care,
these--though young people may not always read them aright--are
needed for the moulding of character; while to every bright young
girl, historic or unhistoric, princess or peasant, Swedish queen
or modern American maiden, will it at last be apparent that the
right way is always the way of modesty and gentleness, of high
ambitions, perhaps, but, always and everywhere, of thoughtfulness
for others and kindliness to all.
MA-TA-OKA OF POW-HA-TAN:
THE GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FORESTS.
[Generally known as "The Princess Pocahontas."] A.D. 1607.
Throughout that portion of the, easterly United States where the
noble bay called the Chesapeake cuts Virginia in two, and where
the James, broadest of all the rivers of the "Old Dominion,"
rolls its glittering waters toward the sea, there lived, years
ago, a notable race of men.
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