Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-25

| True words, Mary; and I will try to profit
by them: 1t does me good to see the sunshine
In your face again."
;" You can always have it there, if you will, -
she answered A
can p'
like the moon, and shine by borrowed iigbt.
Ii clouds cover your face, mine must lie in
darkness - :
That was an evening memorable in after
times, a. the happiest one they had known for
months, If not for years. Mary's aspect
changed in an hour, so entirely, that she
scarcely seemed like the same person. A
neighbor who dropped in during the evening,
said How much better you look, Mrs Les
ter I'm really glad to see it - tS
!" feel much better than have felt for q
long time, !" she replied. = 80 80 > i
Her husband looked and listened in wonder
ana self,rebuke; Uncle Pills remedy was
!" Can 1t be possible" he said to himself,
'tnat the cause Of her low spirits and failing
health lies at my door, Has she been wasting
Ike plant deprived of sunshine? did not
dream OF this. Women are different from men.
nave not comprehended my wife,
In the morning Mrs. Lester looked cheerful,
and moved about with q liehtness of stem to
which she had been for months a stranger.
Inere was even warmth in the cheeks that had
been colorless so long-a warmth that gave
them the appearance Of roundness.
How is Mary to-day" asked Uncle Phil,
who called at the store of his nephew.
!" She's better, thank you."'
"Ah; I'm glad to hear you say 80. Did Won
try my remedy7' The old man smiled. and
Lester smiled back in his face.
!" :. Did you try it?"
:. And it acted righs,'
Like a charm,h
knew it would, - said the old man. olee.
fully " knew it would! Why, you moody
must have little sunshine at home. or thew
will die And 50 Mary is better, dear heart.
was sure that was all she wanted. / was
sure had the right remedy"
If there should be no relapse
Relapse. There can be no relapse, unless
you take homo rueful face. Let her see YOU
always cheerful and hopeful, and nv word for
it, there will be no going back to Low spirits :"
g But, Uncle Phil" said the young man.
how am always to look cheerful and hope
full, when my mind is burdened with care I! 1t
is requiring Of me great deal more, I am
afraid, than can give"
Did your worrying all through the evening
ever help you particle on the next day, Har.
Z" I don't know that it did; still couldn't
hely worrying"
81 know better. You can help Worrying. if
you viii You helped it last night, didn't
your" :
"Yes"
"And you can help it tonight and to-mor.
row night, if you will"
Think Of your wife's health and happiness
Ihst should be motive enough, surely, to cause
Self-denial, Uncle PHILIP
Yes; for think you must have certain
enjoyment In these moody states, else ysu
reason tells you that they are fruitful of great
harm. But deeper reason why they should
cease is, that they involve distrust in Proyi-
dence. Harry, you are in the hands of one
VINO knows your wants, and who will see that
they are provided for just in the degree that is
best for your eternal as well As your earthly
good. No anxious care--no dread of coming
disaster-no gloomy distrust or chatting doubts
Will change the events of tomorrow. They
are to De ministers of good to you, though not
always In the way you have desired Is it not
the worst of folly, then, to sit brooding in darks
ness because the affairs Of your daily life do
not shape themselves according to your short
sighted plannings? You can help this unhap-
Py brooding over what cannot be changed, and
you must do it. ..r
Will try" answered the young man.
You must try and succeed also. Let there
De no giving up or going back. Habit is sec-
ond nature. You have fallen into bad ha Bit
Break it up with vigorous hand, and 20 to
work In the formation Of good habit. After
awhile you will find it as easy to carry home
pleasant face as you now do clouded one
And think what q wonderful difference il will
make in your homei''
When the day went down, and Lester turned
his steps homeward, he felt the old dark states
falling like funeral drapery around him There
had been nothing in the days business of an
unusual depressing character. 1t had been
fair days business, and he should have been
satisfied. But having INDUCED a morbid vay
OF looking at things SO long his mind has taken
ON diseased action, and now there was a
troubled weight on his feelings and depres-
sion of spirits that it seemed impossible to
throw off. Thus it was with him when he as
cended the steps Of his dwelling, and reached
out his hand to open the door
This will not do, he said, pausing. And
he stood still at the unopened door for some
moments. Z" / shall mar everything
Then he descended the steps and passed up
the street.
g. 1t will never do in the world to carry this
face home to Mary. 1 must try and find q bet
ter one. What q firm grip this fiend of brood
ing distrust has takenI must shake him off.
Aud will" Thus he talked with himself. as
he strobe away.
In ten minutes Lester was back again at his
own door; and now he turned the kew and en-
tered without hesitation. He had shaken off
the fsnd, and had smile, kiss, and pleas
ant word for Mary, which gave new life to her
pulses, and sent the warm blood in fushes of
beauty to her face.
Two applications of Uncle Phil's remedy
was enough to satisfy Henry Lester of the real
cause Of his wife's disease; and to assure him
that he had only to continue as he had begun.
to make certain Of speedy cure. He found
the remedy good for himself also. His own
mind had been diseased as well as the mind of
his wife; but now he felt like q new man
Health was flowing through his veins, and Civ
| ing him sense Of enjoyment to which he had
been . stranger faT years.