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Show GIVES BACK WHAT IS GIVEN Ufe, In the Main, Is Just and Almost Inevitably Returns Good for Qood. The ocho is the principle of life. You get back from the world the message mes-sage you give it. Neither this nor any other truth Is true in all particulars; very often you receive evil for your good and good for your evil, harsh words when you sent forth only kindness, and In-Justice In-Justice In return for your doedB honest hon-est and well moant, but like all truths It la true in general. In fact, the essence of every truth Is a generalization which the mind !b able to pick from a maBa of confusing con-fusing particulars. Is It a cold, hard-hearted, unfeeling world to you? Then I very much fear that you havo given to It a selfish, narrow, egotistic heart. 'Is It a tolerably good sort of place, and do you find men and women as a rule JUBt and kindly disposed? You muBt have boon yourself an honeBt and generous nature. Haven't you had days when everything every-thing seemed to go wrong? Tou said you must liuve gotten out of bod with the wrong foot first You have fumbled all you undertook, your fingers fin-gers havo been all thumbs, and ev-eryono ev-eryono about you has Beemed smitten smit-ten with the grouch. In all this you have been but seeing yourself as In a glass. It Is your ugly mood thnt dims tho sh'.nlng surface sur-face of a really pleasant world. Nothing Is so unerring as tho total universe. Time and nature seem now and then slipshod, and do things unjust un-just and uncalled for, but thoy always al-ways make It up In the long run and pay every soul back n hundred cents on the dollar. Woman'B World. |