The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-07-15

walk. aud Babe must 80 ahead o. her
and make good path for her to follow
when she got big enough.
told her Jest how hard it was for the
little creeter 10 be put here in the midst
of sorrow and troubles and dapgers. and
how we must all of Us be jest as good to
her as we could out of PITY for the dear
little lonesome creeter.
So reused up Babes pity for her, and
she was all animated about helpin OF
her; and then | told her the baby had
come to be great blessin and comfort
to her if she was only patient and good
to her
And, don't You see, the very fact of
Babe havin' to do a kindness to Snow. hav.
in todo good things for her, was the surest
way of maxim her love her, for it is Il
great fact in our human nature that you
can't love 'em that you have injured in
any way And at the same time, if you
have ever been good to anybody you al.
ways feel softer towards EN- ever after
wards and luore mellerer.
GURUS, amt II?
But it is fact.
And spoze the reason of it is that you
have sort o lowered yourself in your
own estimation by dom mean, unldnd
act, and 50, in order to satisfy your men.
tai criticism o yourself, to make it right
with your own soul, ycu lay hold and
bring up all the faults you can Of that
tn l,Juf Ai,d ~,
you keep on That mental naggin at EN-
that uncomfortable sort Of feelin' to.
wards 'em makes you restless and uneasy
ana you feel glad and relieved every
time you staud justified to your con.
sciousness by Eetchin' 'em in Il bad act
Haint it so? Now, honestly, haint it?
Why, know it is, and so made sure
that Babe should begin right.
For if you do good, helpful thing for
a person your hull soul feels comforta-
bic, and you bring up unconscious men
tai reasonin's why you did it; it was be.
cause they were so good, so smart, etc.
etc.
And so you keep Oh afeelin good and
comfortable, and YOU keep on "a provin
up to your own self. till you get fairly in
love with 'em. Bless you if you don't!
A very curious thing. But the way |
do. when get holt Of a strange fact or
truth, don't expect to explain it full
to myself before act ont
No, grasp holt of it and use it for my
own then, and afterward wonder at it to
my hearts content.
So Babe got to thinkin' she was neces
sary to little Shows happiness, and that
tickled her little self esteem, jest es if
she was older child, only accordin' to
her weight.
She got to thinkin' she must watch
over her or she would get hurt, which
called out all the good protector $
motherly impulses of her little soul
which was in her-still accordin' to her
weight, forty pounds more or less.
And day by day Babes love for the
little creeter grew till it was fairly beau
tiful to see 'em together, and 50 Josiah
said, and Thomas J. said so, and rirzeh
Ann and Maggie and Whitfield
And as for Miss Pixley thought to
got to give her talkin' to. and the very
next time see her.
She had gone when Babe and | went
out of the parlor-the Babe with happy
bright eyes and | with kinder thought
full, pityin' ones, and all four on EN-
kinder wet.
But the next time see Miss Pixley
alone tackled her, and she as good as
promised me she wouldn't ever say to
any wonans child what she had said to
Babe.
And don't believe she will either for
she's got good in her.
She haint snch bad creeter after all,
and, good land! what can you expect
seven, right along. one after the other
Josiah Aliens Wife in Ladies' Home
Journal.