Show A thought for hard times believe here is a class of people that the present hard times and general depression have failed to discourage or frighten could you believe that there are people who are going right on about their business as happy and hopeful and confident as ever well you may be assured that such people exist and that there are some of them right in your own community quite a few of them in fact they are the workers the real doers of things worth while and incidentally the happiest class of folk in the world today depression and hard times fail to worry them or sidetrack them into the slough of despair far from it instead it seems to make them merely appreciative of their own good fortune for they are the individuals who get from life more than a mere wage for so many hours labor a day they are the workers who love their work who realize that an honest days labor is mans greatest inheritance and recognize it as the one door to happiness satisfaction self respect and contentment they go right along with their work despite failing wages or small returns they have the vision to see that money is but a small part of mans pay for his work they know that their love of the particular job they have in hand is their greatest weapon against disappointment and despair they understand that adversity is their staunchest helpmate the stone upon which to sharpen their wits the burden with which to develop their muscles the resistance against which to strengthen their will and the fear upon which to test their courage A fighting heart is their natural heritage for the battle of their work is their greatest joya fighting heart that knows sympathy for the underdog and contempt for the bluffer you can recognize them by their sense of humor they realize a hearty laugh often lightens their burdens and that good humor is sure protection from the sting of ingratitude and true armor against the boomerang of conceit another earmark by which you can recognize this class of individual is his quality of appreciation for he realizes that an appreciation lies the very germ of happiness and naturally everyone knows that we can enjoy only those things which we appreciate the man who never appreciates things can never be happy the more we appreciate the happier we become this worker who hard times cannot whip also realizes the value of the faith of his friends knowing full well therein lies the payment for all he may do the reward of his greatest efforts and the spoils of his hardest battles you will also know him for his comradeship with his fellow workers and his willingness to lend a helping hand at any cost and because of all these qualities you will find by his side a woman whose pride in his future greatness is eternal balm to his wounds wine to his thirsting soul satisfaction to bis vanity inspiration to his lagging senses and joy to his heart forever by william fleming french in saturday blade |