| Show ALL SEEK FOR HAPPINESS the one thing for which mankind may bo be said to have a universal desire wo we cannot pick and choose tho the happenings of life any more than we can select tho the circumstances of our birth und and death wo we are but creatures of a n wonderful destiny directed by the almighty it Is said that many tragedies of life might be averted it if wo we took our medicine like men and did not put our personal happiness above everything else it Is as natural and to bo be expected to long for happiness and cling to it as for the flowers to turn to tho the sun happiness Is the great lamp of life which lights our way through all sorts of shadows shadows that blur the tha vision and mako make long nights of our days shadows that terrify by their grotesque shapes and threatening aspects and shadows that bury la in their depths much that we hold most dear we are jealous of our happiness and guard it as the most precious thing in life and when wo we watch it go down the long aisles of memory further and further away from our yearning eyes we begin to plead for it and strive for it and fight tor for it we batter the walks of the past in our vain efforts to call it back before it to is too late and spend long days and waste precious strength in the futile endeavor to clutch it back to our hearts and all the while perhaps right at our hands within easy reach happiness in a new guise stands ready charleston news and courier |
