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Show USSON LEARNED FROM" LIT It Is to Give Good Measure of All Things, and Demand but Little In Return. "Life," aald a courageous soul, near-Ing near-Ing the end of a beautiful career "life resolves Itself finally Into Just what you can make of yourself. It has really real-ly very little te Jo with conditions or events." This saying carried the more weight with those who heard It became be-came It came from one who, despite continual outer thwartlngs, spread sunshine sun-shine and courage Incalculable wherever ahe came. Not what ahe could get out of life, but what she could put Into It. concerned her and the measure of what ahe found to add to mere living brimmed over. There Is yet another rule of great value to apply to life when It seems most difficult. It Is to give good measure meas-ure of all desirable things, and demand de-mand but little. Modest demands-social, demands-social, financial, domestic help to solve tho problem of content. Do you chanco to renu-mber the Hnal paragraph para-graph in Tolstoi's "Anna Karenlna!" l.cln. who records It, had found It difficult to supply himself with a reason rea-son for being; and after thought, study and eiperU nce, he gWes ua this solution: solu-tion: "My Inner life has won Its liberty; lib-erty; It will no longer be at the mercy of events, and every minute of my existence ex-istence v.111 have a meaning sure and profound, which It will be In my power pow-er to Impress upon every single one of my act tuns that of being good." If these words set down here Bound trite and childish, read In connection with the whole great novel fine of the greatest of the last century they have profound value.-Harper's Weekly. |
