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Show j And yesterday was Thanksgiving! Most of people put in the g eater part of each year thinkinjr about the cares and troul 1 s of their lives and at almost al-most any lime that a good listener c n be coi'nere I they enjoy the privilege of pouring out to the dregs their stores of trouble. Arid this would not be so bad if that relieved them of it for all time, but it does not. Every telling: doubles the trouble until the tongue! gets so used to it and the eye so ready ! that troubles are the regular diet. As such is the case it is one" of the best of American institutions to have a day . especially set apart for the purpose of i thinking up the joys that have come . into our lives during the past year an 1 wonderful things that are to come dar- ; ing the next. The pity is that there are not more days of this kind, that tht -re is not more attention . paid to the wholesome gospel of looking on the blight side of life and of death also. A habit of this kind is not as easily acquired ac-quired or kept up as the other kind for the reason that the people about us are always ready to help us find fault while few are even ready to believe it if we speak of happiness. There is no question ques-tion but that happiness or its opposite are a habit as well as most other things we do and such being the case it will help keep away wrinkles from your brow and make the world pleasanter for your friends to cultivate the habit of cheerfuilness. Why not make every day a thanksgiving day just for the fun of it? Why not? |