St. Landry democrat., 1890-07-12
SUMMER SOLSTICE.

When you are tempted to spit in your
neighbours bosom, swallow your saliva
If you can't say something CHEEKY and
pleasant and encouraging, stay at home.
1t is cowardly to depress one who is
down, as it is heavenly to help one up.
Toad and other persons of that class
of intellect are not satisfied with sun
light.
Strive to be pleasant to all, and you will
find at once that hell is behind and heaven
before you.
Do not get drunk. The most useless,
senseless. disgusting man in the world is
he who gets drunk.
The farther and faster you push forward
into happiness, the farther and faster you
leave hell behind yon.
Some folks always enjoy poor health,
and, therefore, keep stock of poor health
on hand for personal use.
Talk of things that do not turn the
stomach, raise bushes and shoot annoy
ance into the lives of others.
When you are alone you can be as mean
as will please you, but when with others,
see how objectionable you can be.
When calling upon those who are sick,
please forget your string of doleful yarns
about folks who have sickened and died.
Lightning seems to be exceptionally
destructive this year, but we observe that
it hasn't struck Kemmler yet.-Saratoqian.
Do not forget that recreation is mans
highway to longevity, and that he lives
the most and the best who makes others
happy.
This is secret that successful folks
know of: Be not too wise in your own
conceit, least you become too obnoxious
for any use
When you visit, talk of pleasant things
of travel, of new invention, of new
ideas, new comforts, good acts, and of
clean, progressive people.
Nine -tenths of the misesy and unhappi-
ness in this life comes as the natural fruit
of the disposition or willingness to sit and
grunt, or CAD about and growl.
If you meet man starting in business,
do not discourage him. but help him by
your kind words Patronize him Do
something to help him to his feet.
Be not drizzler of bad news, or croaks,
or recitals of what occurred to this one
who was sick once upon time, or whose
grandfather was troubled the same way
"You do not believe in fish diet. do
you, Professor 2" Certainly" ''Then
why do you say in your book on Health
DO not 60 into the water after hearty
meal'?"
If you don't know enough to talk of
pleasant things, clean your finger nails
and listen. But never stop to listen to
things that annoy, that worry, that darken
and direct you hellward.
1t always makes US feel tired and weary
when man comes into our house, library
or Office and spits and smokes and cbews
and stinks the morning air up with the
evidence that he has visited us.
Keep your mind out of the ruts and
slough of despond. Let all the rubbish
you have been nesting in, wallowing in,
chewing and trying to digest be among
the things of the past. Come out of the
darkness into the light. and make your
self and others happy.
Card playing is educational. 1t is pleas
antly recreative till a parson abandons his
preachin' and goes down hill on run, in
order to show how little it takes to upset
him, and, therefore, how unsafe he would
be as leader or in any place where COOL
ness and good judgment are required.
One reason why church members so gen
orally object to card playing at home is
that it reveals the uncivilized, unchris-
tisnized, unconverted, unregenerated foun-
dations of their character, and proves to
all who witness them as they rise and
snort that they are not yet sweetened by
the grace of God or the power of self con-
tainment.