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Show Two Sides to Trouble. Mrs. Peters had just returned from a visit to her brother, Calvin Jones, who had recently lost the power of speeech through a paralytic stroke. "We must cheer your mother up all we can," Mr. Peters had remarked to his daughter. "She always set considerable by Calvin, Cal-vin, and this affliction that has come upon him will be apt to upset her completely." com-pletely." But, contrary to their expectations, Mrc. Peters returned home in a cheerful cheer-ful frame of mind. "Your uncle is in good health," she said in response to her daughter's inquiries; in-quiries; "he eats and sleeps well. Of course he , can't talk, and that's a dreadful hard thing to bear, especially with a Jones. ' "When . a man came to the village once, when we were little, and examined exam-ined bur headsa' phrenologist, he was he said he never saw larger bumps of language in his life than Calvin and I had. But of course that don't help poor Calvin any now, but I had a real good visit with him, and I shall go often." "Wasn't it dreadful dull for you, just sitting quiet there?" questioned Mr. Peters. "Quiet?" Mrs. Peters looked at him in surprise. "Quiet! Oh, well, of course . Cv.lv'n couldn't talk, but he hasn't lost his hearing, and I regard that as a" great 'mercy. He can hear. And for the first time in my life I was able;to speak my mind fully and freely, and to be .certain .that I was understood under-stood and sympathized with; and that it wouldn't'go any" further." ' . i Mrs. Peters;,paused for a moment and then concluded: . "Yes. Calvin's affliction afflic-tion may be -hard; to bear, but all my life" T have been wishing for a true friend who.wouU listen to what I had I to- say 'and wouldn't' repeat it. And i now I-ve-found that friend in Calvin. I ' There are always two sides to trouble, trou-ble, lo6k at -it 'as you may." Youth's Companion. .... |