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Show I WHEN THE DAYS ARE DARK. The day before New Years, there w&s gloom in Pittsburg. Not the gloom that alone clouds the mind and weakens the heart, but the dismal darkness into which not a ray of sunlight sun-light could penetrate. A Pittsburg paper pa-per describes it in these words of discouragement: "This was the darkest morning Pittsburg has ever had. We have had many dark days, but none like this. In the outskirts there is the usual nonnaJ daylight, but in the downtown it is darker than night The weatherman explains this depres sing state of things by calling our attention to the atmospheric phenome na. It happens that all the conditions condi-tions are ripe for just such a dark, depressing day so we have the day Tfho main item In the list is the fog. Fog isn't anything new, but a fog like that this morning is something different, Not exactly a different kind of fog, just a different degree of it. It isn't a worse fog than many other fogs we've had many times, but there's more of it, and It Is sticking closer to the earth." The average Westerner, who en I joyB sunshine nearly every day in the I year, would be dismayed, even dls-RTTnsbtae, dls-RTTnsbtae, were he engulfed in fog J and smoke so thick as to convert day 1 1 Into night, and yet here is this same Pittsburg paper obtaining this cheer-I cheer-I 'ing thought out of the fog and the 1 smoke: "But, fog or no fog, light or heavy, I mixed with smoke, or Just plain fog, it soon will disappear. Dark as thi3 morning is, the rest of the day Is I likely to be all right. If not the L greater part of it, then some of it. I What we may be sure of is that hows' how-s' ever dense the fog, and however 1 clinging the smoke this morning, it I can't last. The sun will shine again. 1 1 But, somehow, we give more fault : ; finding and grumbling against the disss dis-ss comfort of the dark day, Just one dark morning, than we do of all the fine .effects of all the good ones we've BJjiad, And it isn't or'y in the case iJJoT'N nark, foggy morning that wc take account It is all the same whether It is just one of the dark days' of life, one of the spots in our progress toward the divine, to the jrave that opens the way to the high Her. life, or simply a dark morning ot fog and smoke with not enough wind, to blow it away and restore the sun-Hghlne. sun-Hghlne. We remember that one dark Hday better than all the bright ones. 'And we so easily forget that however dark that one day may be, however dismal, however much It may bring Bus discomfort, it can't last. The sun Bis sure to shine again." B The man who can make his own Sunshine, as does this Pittsburg edi-W edi-W tor, can continue to live in Pittsburg ... r.vJ' or any other fog-swept city and re-J. re-J. 'I aBi taln a cheerful disposition. After all, I ,. I 'IH 1 ,s tne mental attitude that makes B our world. Those who can laugh f niSIl away their troubles are saved a world 1 of sorrow; those who are constantly ) harboring discouraging thoughts can ' not escape being miserable. |