Show THE BEST OF se seeing al ag the bright side of evory every possible event A 1 A L bunch of cobwebs hangs half flut iu in the wind outside of my sun bath window it is a second story bayed window and I 1 cannot by any artifice get at the web which coolly laughs laug hs at my house housewifely i fely habits babits and my uneasiness acry iver y well says john somo some day I 1 will put up a ladder and pull it down for you but probably another will be spun some warm warin night and the wind will make it look very much like this one on tho the whole is it not rather a pretty web and rather interesting as it catches a few drops of rain and suggests pests su to you how many moro more creatures in the world are as industrious dust rious as yourself I 1 had not thought of the web as in the least interesting terest te bug but then I 1 began to think of the f fellow ellow who wove it there and the history of it and as it really was not in the way it berran began im to seem beau ticul I 1 wanted very much to talce take a drive today to day dv but a rain last night soaked up the roods and a dirty mist is filling the air air and dripping M from tho the trees jt is just a day to stay at home only hat aliat I 1 do not wish to stay at home there are a dozen good reasons why I 1 should he be driving into the city not all of them selfish either although I 1 wish very much to call at my dressmakers M 19 ace rs can I 1 make the best of things 15 as they are and turn my disa disappoint P mont finont into a pleasure it is is so easy to make the worst of things or only a half good of them I 1 should like to learn the art of seeing in every pos possible event crent tho the bet best be st I 1 have read somewhere a story told of 1 esus that on one occa occasion ion walking with ills his disciples they happened on a dead dog which they spurned as a disgusting sight jesus stooping dox down ti said ali ah but it has beautiful teeth 1 I they say that grants art as a a general lay in his ability to make a favorable uso use of unfavorable circumstances st anees I 1 think this is is the secret of really good house housekeeping keening As sure eure as tho the lay dawns there are going to come about events and omissions that will not vo be on therace the face of thorn them agreeable the problem which each one of us has bas to solve olve is ir whet whether tier we will become grumblers grumbl biers ers or fault seers or will secure the power to malce make the best out of th things ings I 1 do not mean to be sure t that hat I 1 think anyone should cultivate a spirit of indifference and be equally bam hn appy P y whatever occurs I 1 know a few of these ever smiling women who con t ider bider it perfection never to be ruffled wron wrong douht to be righted evil to be attacked and made over what I 1 mean is unit that xvi when lien we cannot mendor mend or change a matter it is a capital art to find out the oc good gaoa there is in it it is a curious and not a pleasant fact that we have in our language langi age the term f fault ault finders but we have no lt P 1 I castl besim designation R nation for the opposite sor sort t who find beauties and charms I 1 sug su acht gc that there be a compound word devised such as blessing finders or groo good t seer As it is we vi plainly imply nip that nature Ls is inclined itic hued to bo unpleasantly critical that it liar liaa no general capacity for seeing the good and ana beautiful there probably never was a more g agre age thau than just now and I 1 am ain quite willin willing gr to make the best of it some one has bas said that lie he would prefer a dissatisfied socrates to a very COU contented tented negro slave popular discontent means that there is ao much material improvement going on that wo re have come to believe in constant betterment be as a kind of religion wo lire do not sit down as easily as formerly in a hovel without plau planning ning to turn it into a palace this spirit needs s soften ten in ing and toning there is no sen sense so in the outcry of farmers during a year abear of such universal plenty as the present so I 1 a am delighted when I 1 read of one farmer who has been interviewed and cannot be induced to look on the dark side bide but you cannot sell your enormous surplusage to advant advantage arre perhaps not but we can eat the more civo aiva away y liberally and show our invention pi n preserving the rest but you cannot live on apples 11 no but folks have got in the habit of eating too much moat meat fruit is healthier if our wi cimmin avain will learn to put their brains to cooking it so 80 however the subject 5 was turned he be saw the best bes t 0 of f it always uch stich a man is sure to have rl a good home bome and I 1 believe lie he has a happy wife and family the richest farmer that I 1 know is the most miserable grumbler a and rid his wife is a chronic ic grumbler and the children childrs en have run off to the city and are not doing any more wisely there the secret of good children is at le boast ast very largely in not seeing them always at their taci vorst it seems to bo be impossible for some mothers to see the good in in their own families although they are arc as ready as others to boast of the their ir children and show olf off their acquire ments it itis is of course always dim biffi cult for us to combine a just judgment and wholesome correction of evils with a full appreciation of good intentions E every acry child has specially bad tendencies 1 I do not believe there are any exceptions our true work as 4 mothers is not to bo be blind to these and andy yet yat not to boar bear on them too exclusively by all odds most ent emphasis chasis should bo placed on a childs good traits cultivate the corn and the weeds will need little attention 1 I this old saying is ull full i f of pith and wisdom when corn ge gets s well up it smothers the weeds gur our dear ones have surely some soine noble inclinations of my own boys the one I 1 reprove most has bas the largest mind and the largest sympathies yet you w would think thin ic at times bitnes that lio ho lacked robust the qualities to make a noble man inan it would not have been difficult to repress and stille stifle them and make the evil overwhelmingly strong the grand lad is a sample of making the best of everything the other day a few school lads were out for a fr frolic olie they went without doubt farther in mischief than they had bad intended they were nvere arrested and shut in jail th judge being told of the case rose before day heard the easo case gave t thorn lie ni at a bit of goud advice and let them go back to school A e capital a ap ital charm said saia john of seems the good iu in things harp is an excellent opportunity for inal making chir men out of those lads so lie ho invited them thein to dino dine with him talked matters over frankly and made a stout friend of e each ach ono one of them he took advantage M o of the evil to see the good and ana b bring r i n r out the best A nicer lot of lads you will go far to find had the judge publicly disgraced them thein a and nd possibly had john neglected them they would have been at their worst before the world and vory very likely have pone gone on doing their worst I 1 do not believe in punishment as punishment when it will not stand some fairchance fair chance to reform or help a boy or an adult it is s a f false also and wicked affair our jails are ruining us yet there were people who wanted those lads disgraced and punished and not helped A cri criminal winal is a branded outlaw everyone that is damned by us becomes a bad force for and in society our children are the worse for it U tho the greatest idiocy in the world is our system of punishing offenders against so biety no 20 mother can consider it for a moment without abhorrence our boys may at anytime any time timo commit an i indiscretion or a crime from which love and pati patience crice may save them thein but shut up even for a day with criminals they are started on a downward career our only missi mission on is to save and to be able to save wo we must cultivate the power to see the good there is in those about us make the best of our own allotments and how long before they will improve dear old betty rawson what a lesson she taught me in my childhood her husband was a drunk drunken on vay vagabond 0 abond and she was ivas slowly waiting with a mortal disease tt it was an extreme case such as you and I 1 will hardly be called to duplicate in our own lives she made the best of everything and you could easily have mistaken her for a millionaire whistle to keep heep your courage up boys was the advice given to lads sent out in the night for a doctor so I 1 think that singing often helps us and again a good brave talk to tell the whole truth I 1 get no small strength myself by writing as I 1 am now doing that is on the right t side dont indulge in a whine at least cut off the complaining pla ining talk you can talk yourself down into the dumps any time mary allary E U spencer in st louis globe demo crat |