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Show This is going to be a r.plcudid winter to practice tho virtue of contentment with what we have. It's going to be hard to do that? Of course it is. But what of that? Wherever did wo get the idea that everything that is hard should be at once removed from our pathway? It is a very foolish one and ono that should be banished from our gray matter as quickly as Is possible. Of course we are going to find plenty plen-ty of things to complain about. This is going to be a splendid 'winter to find those things If we choose to put emphasis on that part of our lives. Living Liv-ing costs so much, so very much; the calls on our purses come' so fast; there seems to be so much work to do and so few to help do it; no pleasure hilt r- lie f 111 u"1 iui uuuiuuuiii VAIJLHUUUIC Ul 'money. What good do we get out of all such complaining and fretting and worrying over what is and what may be? Whore is life made any easier because of it all? Each ono of us has just so ! much reserve nervous energy and j force. That which we use in protcsl-,ing protcsl-,ing against conditions which we cannot can-not help, avc do not have to meet the things that a brave heart and persistent persist-ent optimism will make more bearable. bear-able. We all have our tasks of life. Most of us have more of our own today than wo have ever shouldered before. In addition many are carrying added add-ed ones for the good of humanity. To do them all requires the very best that is in us. If we do not give it, if wo shrink and complain, how can we hold our self respect? Work is not the worst thing In, the world to face. Addled Add-led responsibilities, if bravely met, I mean added capacity and understanding. understand-ing. Moro destructive far than these are the selfish love of ease and an unwillingness' un-willingness' to share our part of the burdens of 'the present. 00 But it's been a lonp time slnco wo'vj been able to afford a fcclJnp like that. Buckshot for ducks rock snlt for Mexicans. Mex-icans. 1 .,mr. 1,1 ..1 1 I II., 1 I, llll I ' I II l 1 IIMIIII I l-i 1 n |