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Show PATIENCE HAS ITS REWARD BY MRS. McCUNE. S' I ATIENCE is perhaps the virtue most necessary to humaq hap-, hap-, I plness. It is necessary in the relations between mother and child, between brother and sister, especially espe-cially between husband and wifo, between be-tween teacher and pupil, between friends and between employer and employe. em-ploye. The mother must have patience with the little mischievous pranks of her youngsters and tho faultB of her grown up children, or sho will cause them and herself much sorrow from her bursts of temper. There must be mutual forbearance and forgivenoBS between brother and sister if happi-nesB happi-nesB is to reign in the household. Where is success for tho teacher who has no patience? As ono of the characters in a popular play tersely romarks, "It can't be done." Teaching to be successful must go hand in hand with patience. In fact, the average instructor in-structor needs more than his share of this Invaluable virtue, for in a cluss of twenty pupils perhaps only one will have lively intelligence, ten will be densely stupid and the other nine will bo in between, not exactly btupid and certainly not noticeably intelligent. How trying, then, for a man or woman of ordinary brains to attempt to impart im-part knowledge of which he or Bhe is sure to student, who as a whole, either have not tho dosire or the Intelligence Intel-ligence to grasp the lesson imparted! Then think of tho employers who havo to break In now workers monthly or even yearly. The impatient employer em-ployer who snaps at biB stonographer if hor pencil point breaks and arouses the whole office staff to a state of fearful fear-ful perturbation if one of its members happens to be late such an employer may, and doubtless does, keep his employes em-ployes Jumping, but nevertheless his impatience is to his own disadvantage. By losing his temper over accidents or trifling, unimportant mistakes ho often causes tho dismissal of employes who are twice aH capable and efficient as any successors ho may later engage. The man who is patient with his workers, work-ers, who realizes that they are human, hu-man, not inanimate machines, and therofore liable to mistakes, obtains moro satisfactory work than his competitor com-petitor with the lively tempor. Particularly between husband and wifo Is patience necessary, for each has failings which the other must bear cheerfully and lovingly. "Bear and forbear" should be the motto of married mar-ried life. B Cape Cod Cake. One cup brown sugar, half a cup of molasseB, half cup nice fat or butter, one cup sour milk, three cups flour, one egg, ono teaspoon soda, all kinds spice, one cup raisins. |