Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-11-25

OhiS S&k10jE hSNAt - oltId IlItS
take up all the room, aad warm, kind love
will drive away all the eoldaess from the
family hearth.
One great trouble is faeling of going
my own way, Independents of all else.' A
lack of interest ia each others pursuits or
too much excess of interest in our own af-
fairs over thot Of others. And it comes to
pass that We go and come, and the others
know not Where, and uice versa, while any
looking into the matter, right or wrong, is
regarded as an Infringement on liberty.
There are all degrees of unpleasantness at
home, from the dreadful places where all the
spirits OF hatred and abuse have play to the
outward show of necessary civilities, but
where, underneath, lies unsympathetic. care
less Indifference.
1t is lmost Incredible olook alta husband
and wife who sit at the table with no word
of morning greeting, who eat in silence save
the few words called forth by passing the
food, who separate for the day without a
pleasant goodbye, who notice by no out
ward sign the return at evening time, who
take their places opposite each other again
to discuss the evening meal, perhaps in utter
silence, who sit reading and sewing, each in
calm indifference to the other, and so on day
after day, perhaps week after week, till some
calamity opens their hearts, Or something
more than usual leads on from cool polite
ness to a war of words. | say it seems in
credible to think that somewhere in the past
there was a time when those two were happy
only in each others society, when they
thought nothing in the world could ever
estrange them. And yet it may be that al
this has been brought about by the smallest
of t~rifles, o~verlookings, forgettings, careless
ways that show a d%iminution of thoughtful
love and SO on till this state Of things is
reached, and neither one would be unable tc
| tell how.
Let the desireto d. right be ever so strong
we are sc frail, SO apt to err, that we must
be constantly on the watch not to injure OF
grieye, and heaven pity the inmates of :
home where this desire is not. We canno1
afford to make ourselves and others unhappy
here. The world is a beautiful one, bu1
there are many, many hard p~lacesin it. W.
need all the sympathy and love we can get
and others need all we can give. We have
no right to shut ourselves up from Others
hopes and pleasures and good times, bu1
should strive with considerable %se!fabnega.
ton to help along, to give them Il lift over
the hard spots and to provoke a smile on
their discouraged faces when we can. Il
they want to spend a day Or evening in a
way we do not care for, it will nothurt us to
put asidas our own inclinations and show
them that we love them well enough to try
to enjoy it. 1t will do us good to practice
the necessary forbearance; it will make us
gentler and kinder, and a little more of these
elements in our character we can all bear.
How much better this than being short,
cross, crlsty, and marring, if not quite
spelling, their pleasure! If love points the
way we shall be glad to make them happy,
even if it costs us much effort. All! this is
the grand secret-lack of love for one an
other-of unselfish, self-sacri1icing; love.
And that, after all; is the only kind that
amounts to much.
"Is TT GONE FoREvER."-A star-eyed
boy sat beside me, and watched the face
brighten$and the eye grow eager as he spied
a man with a bunch Of balloons. Nearer and
nearer came the man, eager and more eager
grew the tleface, but he said never a word.
His mother bought him a Balloon, and his
smile Q fjoy was dazzling as sunbeam. He
did not play and prank as other children do,
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