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Show carve when the great impulse toward beauty stirs in my soul. I AM thankful that at some times I can be extremely miserable. Psychologists Psy-chologists tell us that that implies a power to be intensely happv. Think it over. ESPECIALLY glad am I for the year 1911. It is so much better than 1811. 1 am glad that I am living now. The heritage of the past is here. The greatness of science and art is too good to miss. AND oh, how thankful I am that I can laugh! How much does a sense of humor ease the way! The happy phrase, the clever story, the quick parry and thrust all are necessary neces-sary to balance the heavy parts in the life play. I AM grateful for the bumps that I have had in this life. The retort courteous, the cut direct, the infamous lie, the cruel knock all have done something. The world is a great teacher. FOH my friends, let my heart be always al-ways grateful. One can't help relatives; rela-tives; a mere accident placed a great aunt in the same family, but friends are chosen. I am glad that I have dear, congenial souls on my visiting list. MEMORY, my constant companion, makes me grateful. Whether It be a little verse of BunBhine, a book, a play or some past joy or sorrow, I must give thanks for the gift of remembering. re-membering. It doubles life. AND I am glad that today I am not fearful of the Great Beyond. BARBARA LEE. Qrdlitude !AM thankful that I have the power to feel the glorious sunshine or the gray rain. My heart fills with joy ; that I can see the leaves and the sky and hear the music of the brook. Grateful am Tthat I can appreciate the height of the mountain or steeple and I the depth of the shadows, and I am glad that I can be uncomfortable in ' the intense heat , or cold, for that means a Joyous sense of relief when it comes. WHICH one of us is not glad of the power to Judge? From the many recurrent cases we can induce a rule, a law, a generality. And from this we can make applications to specific in-' in-' stances. Is it not wonderful, and are a you not glad? TOR my power to decide for myself I I am thankful. My freedom of will is a precious Jewel that I pray I may duly treasure. No one can say what 3 I shall think, for that is my heritage. r My thoughts concerning life, death l and the hereafter, are mine, and I am j glad. THEN there is this country in which 1 live. I am grateful that it is here, with water around it, and other lands on the east and west. The lure of the distant country will prevent us from a narrow insularity. I am glad t that we can govern ourselves in mat-' mat-' ters that affect ourselves. I am filled r with Joy that men are born free and equal and can keep on living that way. F' OR the position of woman In this country may I ever be thankful. j She is not the draft animal of the j fields in some countries beyond. She is not the chattel of the middle ages. J She is not the spineless creature that n was a well-trained echo of another. A woman is the equal of man now, ex-cept ex-cept at tne polls. For small favors I am deeply grateful, e fl NUMBER of institutions of learn-o learn-o J ing are letting us in at the front i- doors. If I wish to study sociology or - medicine or the languages, I am not beaten into a pulp by scornful deans. If i wish to write a book, I need not be ashamed and hide it under a Bam-et Bam-et pier if 1 hear anyone coming. Thanks, awfully! 0 "iLAD am 1 tnai I can earn money to l clothe, feea and shelter myEMilf. e Father and mother should not support a an adult woman until another man offers of-fers to take up the burden. I am not a banger-on in the political economy 0 march, and 1 give thanks. OF A power of self-expression let me never be forgetful. Let me be glad 1 that I can sing when I feel like It, cry s when 1 am inclined to, walk when 1 want to get away, play when I forget r bow old 1 am and write or draw or |
