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Show : THE VIEW OF LIFE I BY LUCILLE DAUDET. i ffTfll HA-T aro vour vIow9 of Ufa? Is I; I kj only something to bo en- !' li dured? Do your surroundings ( seem dull and disagreeable? Aro the people that you . meet unattractive unat-tractive and unfriendly? Or do you enjoy every moment of life, the hours of work as well as play? Is there something agreeable always happening happen-ing to you and do friends spring up Jj like mushrooms wherever you go? The first class almost boasts that ' it does not belong to the type which I is born with a lucky temperament, who' draw people by the force of their sn-I sn-I perior natural attractions. They dn j not seem to think that they can "ever It be different, but that they must al-' al-' ways remain in tho ranks of the less HIE! 'avore(J- 111 It is true that many people are born ill,' Tvlth hapny hearts and sweet dispo-f dispo-f Bitions. On the other hand, there aro III many who have never onioyed good l health, anr have had besides a hard ( road to travel: yet they always have ill! staunch friends to cnll unon. Whv is this? Ralph Waldo Emerson has pcr-llf pcr-llf haps expressed most clcvorlv the 1ns-M 1ns-M son. He says. "We find in life exactlv lilt lin' wc 1)1,1 ,n I f. Tt seems a prettv stiff truth, but Ml! look about you and see If it is not I L 1 1 : true. There is the woman in your tw- block who seems to be pntlrelv wlth- II I: out friends. Occasional!' some cos- Kj sin will visit her: but she as surolv J III- comes out acn'n with some tidbit II If n,01,t her hostess. There is no real Ml frlen(lflh'n there, no give and tnke of II J useful IdPTs. no mntiml uplift, yet th Sin 'ct,or,fin has everything that would L 1oad vou to pimnose that she could Then there is that poor Invalid. At II fc ;, first glance It seems as if the people lilt : in your toWn were esPecially charita- K hie, because thev never noglect her. Hit Kvory tIme you have been there and Nil-: you are a frequent visitor you find f others there before you. You think K hard 'or a moment and you realize that It ts not all unselfishness that lift brines about your visits. It Is be- V cause she slves you something that ; you can get no other place. She fair- I 111 lj radiates cheer and an Indefinable iU comfort, and you go away humbled, II li a knowlcdPe that you can never I ri Rivc her enouSh Jellies and desserts l to equal the spiritual gifts she has I If Gnmvcred upon you. Illtf This Is why the appreciative wife 1 1 Ire has an affectionate husband. It is the I I III reason why children are willing to II 111 lry tasks tliat are hard or uncongon- y ial, because the helping hand of n praise and encouragement is there. A II If Wor3 of enc0l,rascment will go more H than twice as far as discouragement. I fj But you will say, that though you II Ih Were a6reeable to an acquaintance f the other day, she did not reciprocate. I If It may have been because of some l( trouble worrying her. or else she may I not have felt very woll This may not II if absolutely excuse her; but Jt explains. jf We are finite ourselves and we can-II can-II 4 not expect others to be infinite. We llll have moods so have they. In mo-Ijjfl mo-Ijjfl ments of sorrow or physical pain, we-W'M we-W'M also are apt to make a bad imnres- jy, 1 siou. So, then, we cannot expect more H M of others than of ourselves. And m ? kindness is never wasted, for after- iiS1 1 ,'lvard ,ne recipient of our attentions wJ ! will -think of us as gracious, and be M I -grateful that we did not seem to no- jjj" 1 tico her Impoliteness. 5J I Friendship is a huge game of give ( and take. Do not think that you may 1 And fault with your friends at every turn, picking out their defects and fif dwelling upon their Imperfections, 5 h unless you are willing to bo constant- iul H v censured in return. 53 h A good plan to which many people I hold is the setting aside every day of w. some time, no matter how small, in ,5? which they can go over the past day, rj? and meditate upon their actions, and Jgl the rights and wrongs. At such a 5? time ono will see most clearly just jvJj where she failed a friend, or hurt somo one perhaps even more dear. Life may be compared to a mirror aooi? r as a glass will catch the sun's rays, ;' so our cheerful dispositions will bo ifis received by the world with open arms, ipli and not only be credited to us, but iu5 j sent out again in all directions; for untfl Joy, like sorrow, always doubles, dd ! triples and continues to multiply un- 5r5 I til it seems to fill at least one cor- ou&& ner of the globe, though who may sa7 "B J how far it really spreads? Which jrgl t would you prefer to send forth, rays THis Setting Up drill Corrects a Sluggish Liver. of gladness many-sided and choer ng, or shadows that cannot fail to darken lifo's mirror, if they do not altogether mist the vision? 0 POETRY FOR CHILDREN BY EDNA EGAN. HEN you are selecting a book for a small child you do not pay so much attention to tho form as you do to the morals and Interest the story holds. Form is only considered as a means of making mak-ing tho book more readable. But, in a short time the form becomes most Important, takes every impression, whether good or bad, and if the book is ungrammatical. he grows like his faulty model. Moreover, his tastes become blunted, and he cannot appreciate appre-ciate a well-written book. On the other hand, good and beautiful beau-tiful language, as it is found in our best poetry, not only satisfies the child but inspires him. Many of our groat poets owe their success to some gifted gift-ed predecessor, and not only do we find this influence in their early poems, but wo can trace tr.2 same enriching en-riching vein throughout all of their masterpieces. So it is with the child. Ho cannot read and enjoy good poetry without carrying away some part of its style of expression, and a great deal of enthusiasm en-thusiasm and Inspiration and love of beauty. Especially when the children are young, poetry should be read aloud to them. Begin by reading from a eood selection of poems. "The Posy Ring" mav be followed by Repplier's "Book of Famous Verse,' "Golden Numbers." and Palgravo's "Golden Treasury." or "The Oxford Book of English Verse." If you nrefer, you might read the poems of Longfellow, Whittler, Bryant and Tennyson after you have finished "The Rosy Ring.' All these books are collections of representative rep-resentative vorse. and are useful to the child because they contain many short poems, easy to memorize. Among the poems written especially espe-cially for childrn are "Child's Garden of Verses," by Stevenson; "Nonsense Books," by Lear; ''Poetry for Children," Chil-dren," by Charles and Mary Lamb; "Rhymes of Childhood," by Riley; "Sundown Songs," by Richards; "When Life Is Young, by Dodge. We must not forget, either, the nonsense verso of Lewis Carroll or childhood poems of Eugene Field. Of appeal to young people are "L'Al-legro" "L'Al-legro" and "II Penseroso," by Milton; "Lays of Ancient Rom2," by Macau-lay, Macau-lay, and selected poems of Holmes, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Scott, Burns, Byron and Low6ll. Thumbs Bad r t1 ftstmieSimgit, S town. j a T' 'j VJith M& slap HeadZred;, WmM fiMomsit Spine m f ViepTouslij teller jjQjtfs |
