Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-05-29

our minister's wife, Of what she needs in her
feeble state Of health Did you ever think Of
what she has 10 do--with her feeble health. 10
take care Of her house and sew for those
three children You know that she cannot
aford--or rather should say tce do not pay
her husband sufficient stipend to allow her to
keep servant and obtain tho help she should
have. | know this is shame, aud have often
thought of Il. | have often thought of the
style in which many Of our people live, and
yet they seem not to think Of poor Mrs. W.,
toiling day after day, and night after night,
till her health is quite broken dowD. when
very little from each would put this all right
Now propose that you take your work-bag,
the first pleasant afternoon, and 90 down
there, and sew for her. You can manage it
all pleasantly, aud you will give more comfort
than you can think. When you come away,
bring home something TO finish. Then, if you
can interest some Of the other girls iu it. II
you had ever been very tired aud seen piles
Of sewing waiting to be done, you could feel
what good it would do her. Look around
then, and see if there isn't some ono else who
needs just such help | am very sure you
cannot make so much Of your life amount to
more in any wav. Then, Kate, bo all the
time King out for little chances--not to
find fault, or fud something to speak Of that
would be hurtful-but to do something for
everybody you see. If you 60 over to the
postofhce, don't 90 dreaming and thinking Of
yourself, but watching. If you meet Charley
Clark, speak to him pleasantly, however sulky
he looks. He is one the kind that few like
though he has been somewhat successful
in life a little sunshine like that is what
he needs If you see Martha Cricks, don't
say in your mind, All how cross and cos-
sipy she looks but give her kind
word, and try to imagine what made her so
aud what she might have been in different
circumstances. Aud so on, Kate keep il up,
week after week, watching for little chances
in all sorts Of ways to make somebody y-any-
body--even Bob Lightfoot, at the corner,
happier-bettcr if you can. Don't let any
slip by your thought, simply because he
always has. Stop and ask yourself, Now
isn't there something for him ? You will
have to think in n flash sometimes but do it,
Then there is Christmas coming. There are
ever SO many people here who live right on
past all these holidays and hardly ever know,
in their lives, what it is TO have present.
You can make some little thing some cush-
ion, or uecktie, or collar, just some small thing,
and astonish them with it. 1t would be such
a surprise 1t would give a thrill Of hearty
pleasure to persons who are not used to thrills
Of any kind"
Kate drew long breath, while certain
light slowly kindled in her eyes. " / think |
shall have enough to do" She laid her head
down on Mrs. Jackson's shoulder. A silent
kiss told the story Of puzzle solved, life
long rest and work begun. Her eager desire
her underlying Christian principle of self
denial, would develop the little hints into a
rare life,--a life, however, possible to any
girl who is at this moment saying, "Wha
shall do ? What can | do 2"-W. s. Rae
in Canadian Independent.