| Show r. r I IN TH REALM OF WOMAN I TRY TO BE CHEERFUL SEE THE BRIGHT SIDE f Jho other day T I k n a from Ii a a. a girl who halls from from flom roni one ot or oui most blizard i t which said fald f Tod Today y Is simply cruelly cold but I tl try t- t to th think Ink i In tho tim fn In the blowing blowing- I In tho cruel sleet Little now rs begin their f r l F Far ur r beneath out feet teet growing Here was waR a n bit jit of philosophy hore here waa W ft a snatch of or a huppy spirit spira If It Winters inters did dd come and aud snows and even avert frosts and nd rains wore part of or tho human lot How few ot of us receive 9 the cold winter with such SUCil calm cairn optimism optimIsm how k how few tew of ot us remember that the hills must bo be covered co with their winter mantels the tho trees must bo be brown and bare the rh nv- ors ens ra and brooks must be frozen In order oror that next summer we have the full till beauty o ot of a a. laud land with and shrubbery ru and d grain There are too man many people in the world are lre too willing to look Jook on tho the dark tide aide of or everything Oh tho the winter win win- ter Is going to be a 3 hard one I 1 know it I Jt-I I feel leel it It ft Haven't tho the swallows long ago flown southward southward ent haven't ev eTen ersa n the squirrels hidden In their tree I hom homes 8 woefully says sonic some old l Anti And we ue all too casU easily respond Yes hOS tho tiny days are aro surely going to be bo bitter And nd so 80 man many poor people too There Thero are Ale so many women children who ho i will feel feol the cold from flom lack Jack of or food and I clothes Of Ot course we ma may have hoyo s. s Yer very cold winter winter the tho next nett two 1 months mo may bo be bolOW snowy OW l and antI rain rainy and sleet sleety we mn may lilay r hut hunt a a. lot of coal and antI gas s-as we mu may havo bavo to wrap ourselves es In our warmest clothing there clothing ma may be bo many poor poo poo- pie plo who haven't enough to cat cator cator cator or enough to wear But Dut even with all this hIe what Is Js tho the use uso of going about r with a a. Ion long I face and A waler watery eye eCo It I will not help matters one ono little bit la Is a a. little verse which t al a always alway I comes to to my mind whenever I hear someone complaining It runs thus Are re re you awfully wen wean weary 1 of play 1118 little I girl Woal Weary discontented and sick Ill I'll tell teU you ou the loveliest gamo game in tho t won world d Do something something- for somebody quick I Tills rule little sentiment is for fOI ua us all I were we're a a. l. l selfish people and that's wh why i so 80 many of us are unhappy Vo Yo think I too much about our own pleasures Wo Yo I look 1001 Into our hearts and seo them empty we wo look Into our souls and seo sea them barren So Eo wo we turn upon the world worM a l. l pair of ot sad eyes eyes wo wo reach out outa a So pall pair of useless hands why h do ilo we complain Instead wo should help Why hy do 10 we WO shako our heads Dud and sigh high and sigh again Wo We should hould bo be up and doing doIng- making the tho mone money that will bu buy fuel and clothes performing tho the deeds that will miti- miti irato gato the suffering of or those weaker aD and less ablo able to light fight their battles Instead of ot going about bout with miserable miserable miser miser- A able lO expressions and harrowing grum grum- rum bUuS's why not shoulder our load of ot disappointment with a bravo bimle smile smile- why h not riot remember that the greatest souls that ever lIved carried the tile heaviest lest iest burdens burens Thore isn't a n preacher preacher there Isn't an orator orator thero there isn't a wielder of or tho pen pelt who can utter too man many words upon the subject of ot the tIle world becoming a happier place All too often wo imagine that contentment consists In being boing goen given given go- go en everything we desire desIre In in mastering everything without working for tor It Alas alas this Is a n grave grave ravo mistake mistake- j The Tho broadest noblest grandest men mon monand and women sinco tho the beginning of ot all I tf have havo both suffered and worked I |
