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Show Some one gives these directions for making lifo happy: "Take tirao. It is of no use to fume or tret or do as the angry housekeeper who has got hold of the wrong key and pushes, shakes and rattles it aJwut the lock until both are broken and tie door is still unlocked. The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us and in cultivating our undergrowth under-growth of small pleasures. Try to regard presont vexations as you will a month hence. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. It is not riches, it is not poverty, it is hmmm miturethat Is tlie trouble. The world is like a looking-glass. Laugh at it and it laughs buck; frown at it and it frowns back. Angry thoughts canker the mind and dispose it to the worst temper in the world 1 that of fixed malice and revenge. It is while in this temper that most men become criminals. ' . j |