Show ALL SEEK FOR HAPPINESS a The One Thing for Which Mankind May Be Said to Have a Universal sal Desire We cannot pick and choose tho the happenings of life any more than we wean wean ban an select the circumstances of ot our birth and death we are but cr creatures of ot a wonderful destiny directed by bythe bythe bythe the Almighty It is said that many tragedies of life might be averted if we took our medicine like men and did not put our personal happiness above everything else It is as natural natural natural nat nat- ural and to be expected to long for happiness and cling to it as for the flowers to turn to the sun Happiness is the great lamp of life which lights our way through all sorts of shadows shad shad- shadows owe shadows that blur the vision and make long nights of our days shadows that terrify by their grotesque grotesque gro gro- tesque shapes and threatening aspects aspects as as- peeLs and shadows that bury in their depths much that we hold most dear We Ve are Jealous of our happiness and guard it as the most precious thing in life Ufe and when we watch It go down the long aisles of memory further and further away way from our yearning eyes we begin to plead for it and strive for it and fight for it We Ve batter the walks of the past in our vain efforts to call cal calit it back before It Itis itis It it- is too late and spend long days and waste precious strength In the futile endeavor to clutch It back to our hearts And all the while perhaps right at our hands within easy reach happiness In a new guise stands ready Charleston News and aud Courier |