Show MISTAKES reconcile yourself il you arc to remain in this world at all to alic conditions of your being do not vex yourself and break your heart struggling against what is irremediable not look to find what is not to bo found do not fancy that wiser and luckier folk have found it and would havo found it too but for some unhappy ion made at a critical turning in your life tho mistakes you have made if be an ordinary mortal living a ordinary life have not in fact done our lifo much harm you are making just about as much of things in ill s as it was in you to kiako at all mako he best of bargain you luno made in this or that doubtless you sec it was not a perfectly wise bargain you would not make it again had you been considerably sider ably wiser than solomon you might never ahmo hmo made it at all but you arc in for it now make the best of things in good nature and cheerfulness do not mope and keep thinking thinking liow much better ou hive h ive done ind like mr bumble liow cheap you went so doing you will be making alic very worst 0 things you will be deliberately blackening the sky under you mut lire if you are to lie at all ou will prow into a cgue to your and a nuisance to your neighbors there is plenty for you to do and do it there arc people a thousand times worse oft than you try and help them anil for any sake do not be always thinking about yourself get anway from that unsatisfactory subject of contemplation temp lAtion and be quite sure that if you have auld your special fric nu about ten times how unhappy you anro and how many blunders you nave made they bic by ali is biroc most uncommonly mck both of you and them being what you arc it is quite certain that if ou foolish bilings YOU dil you would have done something else as bail or you married early when ou could not it you biad anxious years days have been when it seemed alic poor licad ww to go tinder well baut dil not you have lived through these anxieties why recall them you have got upon firm ground be it is far more and better than you c and the burden which lay on you so s o heavily may sa cd you from making nn inexpressible fool of yourself A man of sixt dangling after some silly girl of filc anil izing and humbling object of contemplation even be himself to be a fool everybody around knows it now you with your seven grownup grown up sons and kiili y our masterful w nrc safe not to make a fool of yourself in that particular way other w nys arc open to you but not one which leads to manifestations quite so deplorable and contemptible it is likely enough you would a friend not to take alic turning you did A man alio has 1 mother in law will generally counsel any mortal man to marry an orphan but aliis comes of your knowing llie evils you have and being unaware of thoe arc waiting round alic comer and from no earthly lot is free you must take all things your profession our wife your house your horses your servants your country with its climate all your environment for better for dorsc A friend w orries ou by little weaknesses but ho is better than no friend at all he may be likened to a gift of a thousand pounds subject to a deduction of two hundred and litty it is a disadvantage about a locomotive engine that it gets so hot but you must accept the engine under that deduction for it will not go unless if you being a human being living in this imperfect system of things will break awny from everything which has its inconveniences ou wiil leave yourself without any possessions or whatsoever to gravely one remarks in these advancing years ali it alie great anxiety and care of worthy men and women growing old anro about their children alie lesser onus still going to school the bigger ones for whom you arc seeking nn aim in life or thorh have gone far away no doubt if you had avy ya would many the income would go much farther alic furniture and the painting of your house would last longer you could in many luxuries now impossible you buy books without dint and cross the alps yearly but you would not have these indulgences at the price it is a cheerless thing 1 childless home no one will bear with you sn the last and smooth the last steps of your way like your ayn boy or girl if there bo in you any good at all it has been brought out mainly by the continual presence and charge of your and you lave had gleams of a pure and happiness are unknown in a lonely life had you kept clear of the responsibilities of fife and given no hostages to fortune you w no doubt have presented n narrow mark to the haats hafts of care bat unless you were a very poor indeed every time you heard the laughter of the little ones and watched luicir winsome ways heir thoughtless merriment you would have felt that you biad alic best happiness of this life and to do of your own freewill is surely alie greatest of all mistakes your library may be full of beautifully bound volumes your carpets unworn your walls unmarked by little lingers sudden may jar your nerves no litle aiice look in when you are in UK kry middle of a complicated sentence and break tho ten or of your thoughts and you never yet tau tho childish ces celoso upon this world nor received tho last kiss from lips that waru growing cold when somebody as of old railed to himself a little child you never duew that terrible trial which DO faith atud no chopo could but neither did you ever sec alio llio bright looka lighted up when you return from a brief absence nor did liello faltering paltering palt ering feet run to incel you you never were ciru estly lioncio as to what you had brought having earnestly considered london shop alic search for something io brin boti may lave been told but you do not know ai you nii plit that iliyn little croil urea coming from abiding with you here or on lieford you nrc the instruments of iho to alrin out the acry best that can be made 0 his creatures lacre all that is worth having even at what it coils A lias to be paid for it no doubt lint unless in morbid and transient moods you would not wish to have done w ich out it therefore instead of moaning oscr days past with opportunities missed and their idiotic sayings and doing we shall all pet to do the best we can in the days which yet remain and if there be blots on the pac which can be out where we are ii alic supreme consolation eliat somo day we may chopo to turn ocr a new leaf and to mako a quite fresh start far away erasers magazine |