The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-29

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IL ARLETrE MORRISON
What strange fascination the Kaleidoscope
! has FOR u.s. when once wo have it to our eye /;
and as we toy with the simple thing, we Won
their eI dless variety OF combinations OF color
and form.
With the slow turning of the tiny bauble,
tue bits OF glass appear from the rejecting
surfaces, only il lines OF beauty, and 10, they
are giving place 10 sharp angles and hard
! straight lines.
| Nee anically we still roll the little tube in
our hands and az it slowly revoIves the world
j y passing before us, human life with its shift
ing coiors and shapes going by.
Always changing, set ever the same, strangely
mingled are its events comedy follows
tragedy III swift succession-bridal white. and
| the l. lck robe. Of mourning walk side by side,
| glowing by contrast. or shaded in grouping,
! they tell us Joy and sorrow are abroad IN the
land.
Back TO our early days thoughts viii 80, and
the friends OF our schoo-days, and of the
home-circlo arc Igl.dins by, for the kaleido.
scope OF life will turn, and we may not stay its
rollingi
! On a bright October morning we followed
one to the cemetery, and she came not back
with us in the May OF her life she left Us, to
! Gull flowers from the - bank farther on
Ceasely the toy rolls On, vacant places are
I filed, the lost are not forgotten, nor are they
missed and we watch az friends pass on to
tuiier years, with bated breath, and eager eye
! W. watch, TO assure ourselves that they do not
lose sight OF the pure white stone on which
their names are written.
After the tempter appears searching for the
one vulnerable point OF Achilles, shifting uu-
consciously strong ones laying low our frail
ones, and still the world rolls on. pauses not
though hearts bleed, hearth-stones grow cold,
and home lights go out in darkness.
How strange it seems with so much of
life and joy you're to still live on
Still revolving. all the coiors OF the PRISM are
rehe ted. To the man OF mature years, the
world is wide aud very beautiful, and he may
hoose for himself his position.
| Many are lost sight Of in the hurrying scenes
before us. Activity jostles Us Oh all sides we
must elbow our way along; carefully and
prayerfully We choose our course that we do
not stumble ia the rough places we are sure to
find somewhere IN our path.
! There is WORK for all OF US golden gram is
lifting it, bright head, and smilngingly in
viting the care or the hIsbandman. All nature
I is busy, aud shall human beings refuse to toll 2
The clock from ats place on the wall COM
/ maDdingly say =" Toll and work, toll and
work. and as we 20 forth each to the duty
lying nearest him, the drowsy hum OF myriads
OF insects echoes work, and az We listen. we
seem to catch the far away surging Of old
ocean as It toils. Through the harmony OF the
whole world as running the monotone, work.
IS we make the life surrounding us answer
to the bite Of broken glass, our character and
disposition must be the rejecting surfaces Of
the vast kaleidoscope, and did you ever notice
how sometimes the beautiful scenes arc thrown
down at our feet distorted, through some i'm
perfection Of the reelection
II is ono Of the ills Of life, that wrong is
written On marble, and good deeds or pure
HE u recorded at all, arc written Oh sand,
where the swasb OF the waves, or the peltIug
OF summers rain rubs 1t out and there Is left
only the impress Of q forgotten page OF
life
Steadily roiiins time has brought 10 us
another Now Yesr-is74 has passed INTO his.
tory--ope picture from the kaleidoscope. and
we can never recall 1t, There are days and
there arc hours stored away ia the pigeon oles
OF the past. that We are unconsciousiy seeking
for, ae With nervous fingers we turn the toy.
They come not, but the present days arc
pleasant oues, With Joy we clasp bands with
1876, and 60 on with our toIling. to make il for
ourselves a happy one, remembering that I'm
iii self lie forgotten in working for something
outside aud above that central figure, will we
! catch The full Richness Of iife.