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Show Best. ! Two gentlemen were looking at a painting paint-ing of acorn field in France, a typical French corn field, in which poppies shone out hero and there arairan the corn. "It reminds me," said one, "of something Ralph Waldo Emerson said to me when I was a youug man. "I had told him that I was tired out, and wasguing away for a long rest; told him howl intended to occupy my leisure, spoko enthusiastically of my prospective travels and out-of-door sports. 1 could enjoy a lifetime of such plans. "lie had listened with sympathetic inter-eat, inter-eat, but at my last remark something in his face prompted me to ask, 'You do not : think those things a waste of time, Mr. 1 Emerson?' j " 'Xo,' ho replied, 'oh, no; but the poppy should always pow iu the corn Held.' " j In that exquisitely poetiral phrase the philosopher-poet and preacher fixed the , truth that work is the complement, the fit and best accompaniment of recreation; the truth that inspired another poet to write: ' Best is not quitting the busy career; . Kest is the fitting of self to its sphere. Youths' Companion. |