Show Pt e L D i HOME CIRCLE 01 V i 1 JUST FOLKS I A IA Prayer Prayer Prayer-by by Edgar A. A Guest I Grant me the strength to meet today Whatever burdens I must bear Let me be cheerful when I may Nor magnify my bit of care Open my my eyes that I may see seeThe seeThe seeThe The larger purpose of the plan And when disaster threatens me Lord let me face it like a man Let me have my vision so that I IMay IMay il May see beyond the doubt and dread Tomorrows Tomorrow's smiling patch of sky Let me not scorn the path I tread Let me behold the finished task task task- Not now but in the years to be Grant me the faith and strength I ask To bear its hardships willingly Lord when I falter fUter and am weak And difficulties bar my way Hold up to me the goal I seek And let me see beyond today Lord let me find In toilsome care pond lAnd bitter butter service to be done In petty failure and despair The larger glory to be loe won 0 0 Judging the oth other r fellow seems tobe to tobe tobe be a very TOry popular human falling failing We all aU Indulge in it to a greater or less degree usually greater The queer thing about it is that we donot do donot donot not judge from our own standard of ol experience but from some standard of perfection that we have concoct concoct- concocted ed out of the past palt His Ills own mistakes to each individual ual seems to sneak up on him un lie He can not tell how it happened happened hap hap- He lie usually says lays it U way was the force of ot circumstances or some such reason and In most cases he is sincere sin sin- cere He lie believes he Is right Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes times limes he is Or when the other Selow fellow leI fel Se- Se low slips it is always his fault We never seem to realize that he may have ha been beell the victim of similar cir clr circumstances We do donot not seem leem to realize real ize that to 10 him as well as ourselves the thing in the beginning did not look took wrong Th The next time tune you ou hear ot or someone making a serious mistake before you yoi censure him too strongly try and remember bow how it ft happened and give the other fellow tellow an all equal chance I If you bayn made the mistake dont don't be sanctimonious about it but think how bow close you have bave come com to it and I It IE I you Olt m miss s WAS WAIl due to circumstances es b b n yr i 4 rent rc There is III no mart mad who vho is In n a position Lon tion to tl judge u hl ha men Wo Ro all ni make ke mistakes and add tey are ivore c ore C c li It ti ho to tare rate kind Tey v VT r n II n nn dve n dl are lIc acc h g to r and Circumstances beyond the Individuals Individual's als al's control go so no ono one has hall any occasion occa urca- stop SOIl to pat t himself on the shoulder We WI know It is III I true that a 11 cloudy sky ky makes the most moat beautiful sunset sun lIun- sunset set and It seems seema that this 1619 same name thing is h true of ot life The mart man or who has hns met many trials and misfortunes misfortunes tunes In life lICe It If they are not embittering embittering is the tho one who has haa the most beautiful old age O O O t With Ith many people there la Is the He feeling that a n cynical outlook on life lite is 18 a R thing to be cultivated It shows and aUlI wisdom In their est estl- mat maton on It may lUay show and It shows wisdom If It it la is wisdom to tomake tomake tomake make ones one's self miserable and unhappy un un- happy nut Hut why always look on the wrong side Why Is la it necessary to think that people always have a double meaning to everything they say We Ve always get what we wo are looking we look for slights and lies we are sure to find them for tor we wo manufacture them out of our own own minds IU u o 0 o 0 Laurels are ore all very well but they nave have never been found substantial enough to support anyone When a aman aman aman man begins to rest on his laurels he lie lieis heIs heIs Is bound to be let down sometimes with considerable force O O O Unfortunately very tow Sow people realize re- re realize realize re re- alize the importance of a proper diet Mothers as a rule allow their children child chIld- ren ran far too many sweets sad nu are surprised surprIsed surprised sur sur- that they should not be strong and d robust People do not realize the harm that an over amount of ot sugar can do to the body Most of them think that a few pimples on the face are all the damage that is done but this is only a minor part of ot the damage damage damage dam dam- age and If it the Indulgence Is la continued ed cd some Borne day not so very far distant the doctor will wilt be prescribing for a well developed case of what he calls Brights Bright's Disease and the patient willbe willbe will be t e eating manufactured food that tastes like sawdust and costs like dia dIa- monds It has always seemed one of the vagaries of of human nature that men will be careful and spare no pains In Inthe Inthe inthe the food they give their livestock but when It comes to the matter of their own stomachs they will not stop at eating any and every sort of ot rubbish It If f they only knew some of of the horrible horrible horri- horri ble jle concoctions they succeed In mIxIng mixing mIx mIx- Ing ng up for Cor themselves Hut But no they think they have been eating all sorts of trash for the past twenty five thirty forty Corty maybe fifty years if It they have a particularly strong constitution constitution constitution con con- and nothing has happened to them yet so why worry We Va can only say that fortunate is the man when the warning from an overworked overwork overwork- ed and worn out stomach comes early early ear ear- ly JY ly in life Then he has haa the vitality of youth routh to help him out in regaining hIs lis health If It he keeps up his foolIsh foolIsh foolish fool fool- ish habit of eating anything that comes cornea his way Vay until he lie is fifty years yeara old his stomach when the break does come is going to be like the one toss shay and go all to pieces In less than a aday day |