Show cheerfulness A woman whose life has been made of sorrow and pain but who alwag appeared cheerful I 1 explained J d to t hei be friends you know 1 have had no money have had nothing I 1 could give but myself and so I 1 made are a re solution that I 1 would never sadden anyone else with my troubles I 1 have always laughed and appeared cheerful when my heart was break ing I 1 hae always smiled in the face of every misfortune I 1 have tried never to let anyone go from my iny presence without a happy word or a bright thought to carry cairy with them and happiness makes happiness I 1 myself am happier than I 1 would have been had I 1 sat down and bemoaned my fat fate ni one can estimate the worth of the cheerful woman the woman whose cheerfulness is not effected by dark days or little rits or whose kindness does not become rancid in the midst of poverty the magnetism althe of the cheerful womans comans amiles amilea and infects every one in the darkest hours her hus bus band goes to the st ste atoe e shot shop or office feeling that he can contribute himself heart and soul to build himself into the temple of human society the cares of the day worry him but the thought that at home I 1 ahall find peace ren renews his strength and energy and he can endure to the end the cheerful mother sends her children to school with the sense of some thing to be won a work to be accomplished complis hed and they do not find it very difficult to be brave truthful courteous and just obedient to teach and kind to schoolmates |