Show The Secret of Happi Happiness ness By W IFRED BLACK BLAGE BLACKI I 1 HAD a letter from r m a i girl this morn mom mornIng I Ing Such a bright girl So clev der so observing so so analytical and so dead In earnest She told me all about her el mother and her father and her sIster Bister and why she like her father and sister very ery well and why her hr home was rot not happy She can write can that young woman When I was reading her let bet letter letter better ter I felt just as if It some one had shaved the front of ot the house off oU and let me rue look Into the very heart of a discontented unhappy family Elizabeth EIlzabeth the girl signed her name Now Non Elizabeth you write and ask me inc meto meto to tell t lI yo OU what to do to make your home and your our whole life happier There Is Just one thing for you to todo t do love people more m re and criticise them less V V Do you ou suppose the humblest little insect that ever crawled ever really liked the scientific person pern who puts him under a microscope and calmly watches him hint squirm The scientist has iras nothing against the insect He trying to try torture him Hes Just analyzing him hixt what you do with your friends then you OU wonder that you are not i popular Stop watching you friends and studying them and criticising them They dont want to be watched they want to be liked Stop thinking about yourself and watching yourself Stop observing your our discouraged father and thinking how much better you would have done don if it you you had bad bad hadJ his business to conduct Stop picking your sister to pieces pie es and saying to yourself how good she is in some ways and how impossible hi in others Stop talking people over over V you oU and your mother Dont you suppose your sister knows when you are doing that She may not hear a word you ou ous say s y but she hears It just the same Be simple and straightforward and loving Interest yourself in somebody and something If It you cant do any better and must analyze something get a microscope and analyze the plants I You have a bright energetic mind I You Tou ought not to sit down and do nothing If It you do your mind will Trill run rim away with you and you never will be happy happ in the world Forget the way tray the average American girl lives lIes and be a little English or Ger German German German man or French An English girl of ot your age would be riding and swimming and golf golfin In Inand and and mineralizing and ana an studying a new language and pressing flowers and learning what to do for tor the mange and how to bring brin e a collie ome through a spell of distemper rand erand and she have time to mope A German girl would be helping h in the housework raising a garden look Ing after some S me chickens putting up fruit making coffee for her mothers afternoon visitors and she have time to wonder what was the matter with her herA herA herA A Drench French gIrl gin would be practising the Tie pIano n or J P the harp embroidering all aU sorts of dainty underwear making soups and arid salads inventing new ways way ot of serving a simple she r T I have a mInute e to worry about abot why people like her There is nothing In the world the matter With y you ou U Or With your friends Mends I except that you are idle Go to work |