The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-31
GOOD CHEER.
BY REV. t. DE WITT TALAIAGE.

| SONS are porn crO<S. ICE tDab man WIN Il
long face that never shortens into laugh
Tell me, did not his mother have trouble
with him when he was small? Why, he
never was pleased. Did he not make riots
in the nursery among looking glasses and
| glass pitchers? Was his nurse ever able
on her knee to jolt down his petulance or
shake up his good humor? Did he not
often hold an indignation meeting flat on
the noor-his hands, his head, and his feet
all participating in the exercise? Could
not his father tell you story of twelve
o'clock at night, with hasty toilet, walking
the floor with the dear little blessing in
his armss A story that would be a eau
tion to old bachelors.
Some are from infancy light and happy
they romp, they fly. You can hear their
swift feet in the hall. Their loud laughter
rings through the house, or in the woods
| bursts into a score of echoes. At night
you can hardly hush their glad hearts for
slumber, and in the morning they wake
you with their singing. Alasl if then
| they leave you, and you no more hear
| their swift feet in the hall and their loud
laughter ringing through the house, or in
the woods bursting into score of echoes;
| if they wake you no more in the morning
| with their sweet song; if the color go out
of the rose and tits leaves fall; if angels
or once grow jealous and want what you
cannot spare; if packed away in the
| trunk or drawer there be silent garments
that once futtered with youthful life, and
by mistake you call some other child by
the name of the one departed-ah mel
| ah me!
But while we may all from our child
| hood have certain bent given to our dis
position, much depends upon ourselves
whether we will be happy or miserable.
You will see in the world chiefly that
which you look for, A farmer going
| through the country chiefly examines the
FIRMS, an architect the buildings, a mer-
! chant the condition of the markets, min
| lister the churches: and SO man going
through the world will see the most OF
that for which he especially looks. He
who is constantly watching for troubles
will find them stretching off into gloomy
wildernesses, while he who is watching
for blessings will End them hither and
thither extending in harvests OF luNurI-
ance.
Like most garments, like most carpets,
every thing in life has right side and u
wrong side You can take any Joy, and
by turning it around, find troubles on the
other side; or you may take the greatest
trouble and by turning it around, find
lows on the. other side. The gloomiest
mountain never casts a shadow on both
sides at once, nor does the greatest of lifes
calamities The earth in its revolutions
manages about right-it never has dark
ness all over it at the same time. Some
times it has night in America, and some
times in China, but there is some part of
| the earth constantly il the bright sun
light My friends, do as the earth does.
When you have trouble, keep turning
round, and you will find sunlight some
where. Amid the thickest gloom through
which you are called to pass, carry your
own candle A consummate fret, will, in
almost every instance, come to nothing.
| You will not go to such merchants store,
nor employ such mechanic, nor call such
minister.
Fretfulness will kill any thing that is
not in its nature immortal. There are
large class OF persons in constant trouble
about their health, although the same
amount of strength in cheerful man
would be taken as hcalthiness. Their di-
gestion being constantly suspected Of I'M
faithfulness, finally refuses to serve such
a master, and says, Hereafter make way
with your own lobsters!" and the sus-
pected lungs resign their office, saying:
thereafter, blow your own bellows !"
For the last twenty years ne has been ex-
pecting every moment to faint. His
; nerves make instruction, and rise up
against his head, saying: Come, let us
seize upon this armoryp His face is per-
petually drawn, as though he either had a
pain or expected one.
You fear to accost him with, Chow are
YOU to day % for that would be the signal
, for a shower of complaints He is always
getting lump on his side, an enlarge
. | ment of the heart, or a curve in the spine
IF some of these disorders did not actual
lv come, he would be sick of disappoint-
, ment. it you should find his memoran-
; dunn book, you would discover in it re-
cipes, in elderly female handwriting, for
the cure of all styles of diseases, from
j softening of the brain in man, down to
E the bots in horse His bedroom shelf Is
, an apothecary infantum, where medicines
= of ali kinds may be found, from large bot
ties full of head wash for diseased era
nirms. down to the smallest vial, full of
, the best preparations for the removing of
, corns from the feet. Thousands OF men
are being destroyed by this constant sus
picion OF their health.
: Others settle down into gloomy state
: from forebodings OF trouble to come
They do not know why it is, but they are
always expecting that something will hap
, pen. They imagine about one PRESENT.
, ment a week. A hiEd flies into the win
: dow, or a salt cellar npsets on the table,
= or a cricket chirps ON the hearth, and
. they shiyer all over, and expect messen-
! ger speedily to come in hot haste to the
? front door, and rush in with evil tldlngs.
Away away! with all forebodiags as
! to the future. Cheer up, disconsolate
onesl Go forth among nature. Look up
: toward the heavens insufferably bright by
day, or at night when the sky Is merry
with ten thousand stars, joining hands OF
light. with the earth in the ring, going
!, round and round with CLEAN, ana dance,
, and song, making old Night feel young
,, again. Go to the forest where the wood
mans axe rings on the trees, and the soli-
tude is broken by the call OF the wood
!, sparrow, and the cheewink starting up
} from among the huckleberry-bushes. Go
to where the streams leap down Off the
rocks. and their crystal heels clatter over
i. the white pebbles Go to where the wild
> flowers stand drinking out OF the noun
, tain brook, and, scattered ON he grass
! look as if all the breads had cast their
crowns at the foot of the steep. ilark To
the futing of the winds and the long
metre-nsaim of the thundert Look at the
. Morning coming down the mountains, and
, Evening drawing aside the curtain from
, heavens wall OF jasper, amethyst sar-
, donyx, and chalcedonyl LOOK at an thls,
and then be happy.--Hearth ana tome
, WHITE CAKE.-Two cups OF WHITE SUI
: gar. two and twothirds OF cup OF butter
and lard, allowing about one even table,
spoonful OF lard, whites OF eight eggs well
! beaten, teaspoonful and half OF