Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-01
VARIETIES.
If you gain affection bestow it.

| SO Is virtue by ltS own excellence.
Our prayers are sometimes best an.
swered when our desires are most
opposed.
One half of the world must sweat
and groan that the other half may
| dream.
All christians must work. What
would happen in battle if only the
officers fought?
The morning of life is like the dawn
Of day, full Of purity, of imagery, and
harmony.
A dealer in perfumery knows a
sweet assent when he sees and noses it
when he seizes it.
If we had no defects we should not
take so much pleasure in discovering
those of others.
Always think before you speak.
Very often you do wisely to take it all
out in thinking.
Barnum is said to have Young
horse that turns a somersault. A Colt
revolver, go to speak.
The lift of true man cannot be a
life of more pleasure: it must be, above
all things, life of duty.
Some one said of Kean's acting 81
like his dying scenes best he acts the
dead man to the very life"
Nothing is so contagious as example;
we are never either much good or much
evil without imitators.
IT'S thought and digestion that
makes books serviceable, and gives
health and vigor to the mind.
Mistress "This steak is very we'll
cooked, Mary" Mary-"Yis, mum.
Me reputation is at stake, We know
There is a slight difference between
lottery ticket and a mustard plaster
the plaster always draws something.
Selfdenial is a kind of holy associ-
alton with God; and by making you
his partner interests you in all his hap
piness.
1t is almost the "beau ideal' of hap
piness for man to be so busy that he
does not know whether he is or is not
happy.
It's good form to be hungry and APP
preciatIve of what is set before you,
and it is not to disdan the food which
you are asked to share.
Husband during quarreD ave
shall never meet in heaven" Wife
"Oh, yes, we may. There is plenty of
time for you to reform yet"
As the principle of love is the main
principle in the heart Of the real Chris
tian' so the labor of love is the main
business of the Christian life.
eighteen inches Of twist will work
a button hole" says fashion paper,
but married men know that it is some
times hard to get five feet seven inches
of wife to sew on button.
The consistent minister will not
preach steadily for two hours upon the
iniquity of lying, and then blandly ask
one of the leading members Of the con-
gregation how he like the sermon.
Nurse-"Mum, the baby's eating
green apples. Shall | take them
away ?" Fond mother-"Do you
want to make him cry, you goose?
We can give him some ipecac by and
by"
The tendency all around us, and
seemingly a growing tendency, is to
give as few hours as possible to the re-
quirements of ones calling in life
The outcome is the working Of mani
fold mischief.
Division of Iabor-Natalie-"Oh,
Mr.. Decourcy, am tired of this frivo-
lous life How fatiguing to sit and
hold ones hands all day !" Mr.. De
courcy-"Why not have some one to
hold them for you? %
Mrs. Badger-"You must have a
nice kind of mother, if she lets you
fight in the streets like this and get a
black eye" Little JOHNNY was
fighting with your boy, ma'am, and
he's got two black eyes"
There are moments is life when we
sigh for peace when the heart is wear
led with life's excitements and would
be at rest when there is no pleasant
sound in the merry laugh, and even
the smiling lip reflects no pleasure.
Husband ''Did the ice come this
morning?" Wife-"Yes five pounds
at 81 a pound. A very choice piece
"Why didn't the coachman come down
after me to-day as usual p Hes been
tanning the ice all day so that it
wouldn't melt"
The delight of thought, of truth, of
work and Of well doing will not de-
scend upon us like dew upon the flow
er without effort of our own. Labor,
perseverance, selfdenial, fortitude,
watchfulness, are the elements out of
which this kind of joy is formed.
Let every dawn of morning be to
you as the beginning of life and every
setting sun be as its close. Then let
every one of these short lives leave its
sure record of some kind thing done for
others, some goodly strength or know
ledge gained for yourselves.
Fond Lover (aftre a long delayed
proposal Perhaps I've been too sud
den, darling" Darling Girl (regain-
ing her composure with mighty eff
fort)-Yes, George, it is very, very
sudden, but-(and here she became
faint again) it is not too sudden.