Show abat a low U VP 1 things you should know X hill mi lka A ia by john joseph joaeph gallic gaines M K D PIN PRICKS the gentleman who gives you a sock in the jaw aw does not arouse so n much resentment sent ment as the lady who cor continually nags at you we can stand the roar ot of a cannon once better than we can stand the continual dripping that wears away the stone it Is not the big things in life that we have to tear fear so much as it Is the little things we ought so to order our lives that our dally intercourse with people shall be pleasant and not irritating I 1 knew an old woman who had two daughters one stayed at home and gave up a career to take care ot of her mother in her old age the other moved to a tar far city rarely wrote and nen nei er cr came to see sec her the old woman complained continually ot of the little irritations tier her stay at home daughter caused her and enlarged upon the virtues of the daughter she never saw raw when she died and her will was read it was found she ehe had left every cent to the daughter who had moved away arid and nothing to the one who had given up everything to care tor for her A lather father had tour four sons went into debt to buy a farm three ot of the boys went off leaving the he one son with his bis father to pay off the debt the father took sick and tor for the best years ot of his lite hie the son slaved until the debt was cleared away while the other three boys were along in their careers he had missed an education had put off his marriage had given up the career he had bad planned at his fathers death it was found that he had left the farm to be divided up equally among the tour four boys whether cheth er we c can f n make head or tall tail out of 0 f the justice of the story of the prodigal son there Is nothing truer to human nature As the screech of a locomotive Is into a woodwind sound by distance the irritating little rough places in personality seem to lade fade in those afar off the small imperfections in the ones who stay at horne home are evident and continuously been rich gifts are counted poor not only when givers prove unkind but wh when enthey they prove irritating As time goes on too often the small irritations loom larger than the essential inundation anim aaion the pin aln pricks outweigh the s sacrifice ac |