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Show t THE VALUE OF APPRECIATION. Few Realize the Worth of Appropriate Words, of Praise. Has It over struck you what a sweetener sweet-ener of llfo lies In a few words of appreciation ap-preciation and encouragement? How tew of us take the trouble to stop a few minutes and praiso a servant for work well done, or oven pauso to'te.11 our nearest and dearest how we appreciate ap-preciate all tho dally services which we havo apparently never noticed. When our friends dte we hasten to send beautiful flowers as a last appreciation appre-ciation of our love for them. But would It not bo better if wo had helped help-ed them by a little praiso when they wcro working, or It we had cheered them in the dark days.whcn they wero troubled and suffering? Only a few words of appreciation! The cost la nothing, but the recompense Is beyond price. Let the hiiBband tell his wife how much he prizes her love for htm, and the wife tell her husband how truly she recognizes all his care for her, and the mother should roveal In words how much she valueB her children's chil-dren's affection, while the child who says to Its mother, "Thank you for all your love to me," has rewarded her far beyond knowledge or understanding. |