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Show loooooeoooooooooooooooooooooooooO ! 1 QUIET HOUR CHATS. I fa V j Laura Jean Libbey. "Wear n Happy Fact, By Laura Jean Libbey. No matter -what your home life may be, how cheerless the surroundings, whether poverty hovers about the door or sickness and vicissitudes have en-I en-I tered it, shut out the gloom from your ! thoughts with an iron will and teach j yourself to look on the bright side. You cannot change or mend matters l by being despondent and carrying the sign of your hopelessness in your careworn care-worn face. Trials and heartaches come into every ev-ery life; he is a true philosopher who diligently searches for a chink through which the sun may shine. There are rugged roads for every human hu-man foot to press in that long journey from the cradle to the grave, and he who stops to lament at every abrupt turn which leads through brambles instead in-stead of beds of roses is but a poor I soldier in God's great army. Wear a cheerful countenance, that I vour friends will seek vou instead of avoiding you. Keep your sorrows and trials to yourself, carefully locked up in your own breast. No matter how true and earnest the friendship of your friends may be for you, they will grenv restless eooner or ater at the constant repeating of the story of your troubles from your lips. They may feel sorry for you, in a calm sort of way, but when it comes down to it they will rather' resent your ittempt to cast half of your burden up-jn up-jn their shoulders, which you assuredly attempt to do when you drag your troubles persistently before them. People have worries enough of their own without having your trouble on their minds. It is little wonder that they look for pleasant companions instead in-stead of gloomy ones. The man or woman who looks persistently per-sistently on the bright side of everything every-thing is indeed a genial gleam of human hu-man sunshine, inspiriting and joyous, shedding hope within the breast of all with whom they come in contact. Mothers should patiently inculcate I into the hearts of their little ones the noble trait of looking on the bright side of every difficulty which looms up j in the daily course of existence. Natures Na-tures are made or marred by it. A cheerful disposition, which is another an-other name for the possession of the happy faculty of looking on the bright side of everything, can be acquired by earnest and persistent effort, and is worth more than rubies to its owner. |