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Show GOOD FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. It is impossible to estimate the many helps for our life work which come to us from association with our neighbors. No two of them possess the same peculiarities or ride the same hobbies; yet all have some excellent qualities, and all have some failings, and we find help and instruction from either. There is Mrs. A., who is such a nice housekeeper. If we step in and sit for a few moments in her neat shining kitchen, we go home with a new impetus to "brighten things." We can hardly wait to get our gloves off before commencing to polish the window glass or dust the mantel. There is Mrs. B., who, without neglecting house affairs, manages to read and accomplish such wonders for her own culture and that of her family. A chat with her has sharpened our appetite for solid reading, and given us ideas with which to make ourselves entertaining in the coming twilight - that sweet time when we always want to be at home. Mrs. O. is an invalid, but always so patient and sweet-tempered that to witness her calm and cheerful demeanor gives us a new strength to bear the transient headache or the morning depression after a hard day. If another is too gossipy or fault finding, we may glean a warning for ourselves. So all our neighbors help us; and we, in turn, must owe them something - an example, giving them our best, whatever it is, for their help; and gratitude which shall make it a very easy matter to obey the divine command, "Love thy neighber [neighbor] as thyself." |