Show III ff M H This Habit till Morison y yA A GOOD MIND MINDA FT n 25 5 years of married life lite It A AFTER was more fun for Mrs William to plan and get hr husbands husband's present than It had bad been even the first ChrIst ChrIst- One year she left Billys Billy's book It was always n a book the the last Ills HIs own specIal copy of nab Rab Rabble ble Burns had been los lost and without with with- out oat saying anything to Billy she meant If possible to duplicate lt It Burns was the poet from whom he loved to quote on all occasions occasions- ns there wn was a man he be wont to say who really offered one the milk of human k kindness So Mrs William proceeded first to the library to hunt up the special Pedal edlU tn that the lost copy had bad been S The librarian had a straIght line between her yes eyes and the corners of her mouth were drawn down Mrs WillIam who had carefully con consulted the card catalogue before applying at the desk was met with an Icy stare This was Christmas week and UL L S the library was short handed U u if she ut wanted a special edition shed she'd have tp to watt until the oy had time Limo to hunt MrS William D. D w was s perfectly willing willingto to waIt and she dId i for three three quarters of an an hour WIth her glow of 1 pleasure somewhat some some- what lessened she continued on her lier At the book store where she dealt there was a tired and jostling crowd and a corps of ChrIstmas trade trade- clerks derks William wondered If these were the same bo boys s that had made the short The employee she accosted was not interested Interested Inter Inter- ested In Robert nobert Burns and took no pains to conceal hIs scorn of one so entirely unaware ot of the best sellers Mrs Irs WillIam was made to feel that It was no time to come asking for a 0 book so out of the hOliday line As she came out onto the street she had begun to think that perhaps the Christmas spirit was Indeed a thing I g sIo or aT m D. D lesS tess- crowded gel It had started to rain and the rising wind whipped the storm round her ankles A gust can caught ht her umbrella and as she struggled struggled to hold h ld It her package with Billy ml- ml ly poems tell fell to to the wet pavement Some nIght came a childish pitched hIgh voice at her side and I I I v looking down she saw n. n quaInt figure Ure In the unIform of a messenger boy pickIng up her lost book was almost a midget and was e evidently a man past fifty HIs face tace was cadaverous and there were deep lines round Ills his mouth but In his eyes was the flash of fun and youth And nIl the time that Mrs 1 William thanked ed him sedately there was In her mind the extravagant desIre to take him home with her to their warm lire fire and good supper and Billy BUly and Rabble Burns For he had cr crystallized a thought for tor her i that the habit of pleasantness pleasant pleasant- ness means menns mental fitness that a grained cross person Is not a healthy animal To desire the best expect the best demand the best from I ers era and to acquire the habit of tUrnIng turning tUrn tUrn- Ing a tranquil countenance toward the world these imply not what we used to mean by good nature but what tine ne mean now by a good mind HAVE YOU THIS HABIT j by Metropolitan Newspaper |