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Show 'JIMNi.S AM) THIS riilCK. No uiiitter what we get in lite, we pay fin- it. Nature never gives something for nothing. Whenever we acquire anything, we lose an equivalent something. Take the family that was poor until the war en me and made them rich. Their wen It h has brought wonderful things into their lives. But they have lost things that cannot be measured in dollars including as-! sociation with intimate friends of the old days, and the joys of simple pleasures. Maybe they are happier than they were buck :n the days when a dollar looked as big as a; wagon wheel. If So, they are being rewarded for enduring past misery, j The law of compensation cause and effect always balances the scales in the long run. The weights that balance the scales are not always al-ways visible to outsiders. But it takes a lot of ill-gotten gains to compensate com-pensate for remorse, shame or an uneasy conscience. Possibly shame, even conscience, is lacking in some, hearts during life. But ik one j knows what thoughts and feelings' are at the instant of death. Nor; the price that is collected beyond the grave from people who dodge payment in this life. I Most of the discomforts and reputed re-puted loneliness of bachelor lifej vanish when we marry. -But wei soon find that we have acquired new burdens and worries. Observe) the mother, slave to her baby. She is paying for the maternal joy that has come into her life. Ponder the man who flees from the congestio.1?,-stenches congestio.1?,-stenches and irritation ott& city. In the wilderness or-OTi a farm he has freedom.bow-room, fresh air, Paw.' And he pays the price by uot having the conveniences and excitemeat of il- metropolis. Even knowledge has its price intense in-tense study and surrender of time that might be spent in pleasure. AVe pay in full. When we get a thing we lose its equivalent. At the end of the road, old and successful, we look back and would trade it all for youth. ' Something for nothing? Never ! |