Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation

Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
ROSA GRAUL
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
M. Harman & Co., 1394 West Congress Street
1899
In the order of nature the ideal precedes the actual. In back-woods phrase, “The wind-work must precede the ground-work.” “The ascent of life is the ascent of ideals.” Ascent means action, change, involving effort, struggle, aspiration. Aspiration implies or pre-supposes DISCONTENT.
The author of the story, “Hilda’s Home,” preaches the gospel of discontent—dissatisfaction with the old, desire for the new. With Ella Wheeler she says,
Be not content; contentment means inaction—
The growing soul aches on its upward quest.
Satiety is kin to satisfaction—
All great achievements spring from life’s unrest.