, 1864-06-24

CHEERFULNEss.-Ton stimulatives,
medicines There is nothing in all the
pharmacopeia half SO inspiriting as cheer
full temper If by turn of fortunes wheel
the thousand or ten thousand dollars
YOU have to-day is swept from your grasp
tomorrow, do not 60 about "cursing fate"
but accept for your motto the homely say
ing, There is plenty more where that came
from" and go to work with your two hands
a, YOU did before, and climb the hill again.
The world around, seeing your disposition to
ego in and win" will help you at every
turn, and with the experience you have
gained of the world you will find the second
ascent much easier than the first; whereas,
if YOU 90 shifting and whining through the
world mankind will learn to avoid you as if
YOU were afflicted with deadly contagion
And, YOU, young man, who have allowed all
your hopes of happiness IN the future to be-
come centered in some tickle fair one, do
not, when she quietly informs you that she
has suddenly conceived warmer attachment
for another, rush frantically off to the dram
shop and seek to "drown your sorroWs In
the flowing bowl :" for you will only awake
from the temporary stupor 1t has produced
70 find YOUR Confusion worse confounded'
by an aching brain and sick stomach; and,
if long persisted in, you will only ruin your
own health and character, and prove to the
world that you had no fixed principles and
were unworthy of the being whom you
sought. Do not, either, go denoucings her
as vile, for that is unmanly, and you only
show your own weak judgment in denoun-
cling as rotten to-day what you proclaimed
was perfection yesterday; besides, in trying
to prove that humanity is base you only
prove yourself so. Neither, because one
has disappointed you, say that all woman
kind are alike deceitful for by so doing,
you include your mother and sisters in the
catalogue and show that you, at least, are of
''low origin" Take common-sense view
of things; give honor where honor is due ;
and remember that tbs not half so bad to be
disappointed before marriage as after
Then, consider yourself rather a subject for
congratulation than otherwise, and remem-
Der the homely old maxim, that "There are
still as good fish in the sea as ever were
caught" Whatever misfortune may betide
do not at once court the idea that you are
q victim Do not go through the world
with face half yard long Do not per-
suade yourself that everything happens
wrong Ny dear sir, yOu are the only per-
son that is wrong when you say this world
is all a wilderness of woe, of trials and Of
troubles 1t is no such thing, but just the
reverse to every one who tries to make it so.
1t is great deal better to be without an
arm or leg than to lack cheerfulness
What if the globe does not roll round in
the precise direction you want it to Make
the best of it. Put pleasant face on the
matter, and do not 60 about throwing cold
water on the fresides of all the rest of man
kind. If you want an example, look at the
birds, the flowers, or the very sunshine on
the grass The man who is habitually
cheerful has found the true philosopher 5
stone there is to him no cloud so dark but
he sees the blue sky beyond-no trouble so
calamitous but he finds some blessing left
him to thank Providence for He may be
poor and des titute, but he walks clad in an
armor that all the wealth of the mines of
Golconda cannot purchase Snow and rain
cannot penetrate it, and scorn and contume-
ly fall harmless from its surface. The storm
that sinks less courageous craft can only
compel him to trim his sails and try again.
Who would be a mere thermometer, to rise
and fall in spirit whith every change Of
lifes atmosphere ?
No such friend want not J.
At every change to pause and sigh;