The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-02-20
THE BEST OF THINGS.
Seeing the Bright Side of Every
Possible Event

bunch OF cObwebS hangs half-Hut
terinp in the wind outside of my sun
bath window 1t is second story
bayed window, and I cannot by any
artifice get at the web, which coolly
laughs at my housewifely habits and
my uneasiness. Every well" says
John, ''some day will put up ladder
and pull it down for you; but probably
another will be spun some warm night,
and the wind will make it look very
much like this one. On the whole, is
it not rather pretty web, and rather
interesting, as It catches a few drops
of rain, and suggests to you how many
moro creatures in the world are as in
dustrious as YOURSELF" 1 had not
thought of the web as in the least in
teresting, but then | began to think
of the fellow who wove it there, and
the history of it, and as it really was
not in the way, it began to seem beau
tifui.
l wanted very much TO take drive
to-day, but rain last night soaked up
the roads and a dirty mist is filling
the air and dripping from the trees.
1t is just day to stay at home only
that l do not wish to stay at home.
There are dozen good reasons why
should be driving into the city, not
all of them selfish, either, although
wish very much to call at my dress
makers. Can 1 make the best OF
things as they are and turn my disap-
pointment into a pleasure? 1t is so
easy to make the worst of things or
only half good of them. 1 should
like to learn the art of seeing in every
possible event the cery best.
have read somewhere a story told
of Jesus that on one occasion walking
with His disciples they happened on
q dead dog, which they spurned as a
disgusting sight Jesus, STOPPING
down, said: ''Ah! but it has beauti-
full teeth" They say that Grants art
us general lay in his ability to make
favorable use of unfavorable circum-
stances l think this is the secret of
really good housekeeping. AS sure as
the day dawns there are going TO come
about events and omissions that will
not be, on the face of them, agreeable.
The problem which each one of us has
to solve is whether we will become
grum blers or fault seers, or will secure
the power to make the best out of
things | do not mean, to be sure,
that think anyone should cultivate a
spirit of Indifference and be equally
happy whatever occurs. | know few
of these ever-smiling women who con-
slider it perfection never to be rufled.
Wrong ought to be righted, evil to be
attacked and made over. What mean
is that when we cannot mend or change
n matter it is a capital art to find out
the good there is in it
1t is a curious, and not pleasant
fact that we have in our language the
term fault-fnders; but we have no spe-
cial designation for the opposite sort,
who find beauties and charms. L sug-
gest that there be compound word
devised, such as blcssing-finders or
good-seers-; AS it is we plainly imply
that human nature is inclined to be I'M
pleasantly critical; that it has no gen
eral capacity for seeing the good and
beautiful.
There probably never was a more
grumblesome age than just now, and 1
am quite willing to make the best of
it Some one has said that he would
prefer dissatisfied Socrates to very
contented negro slave. Popular dis
content means that there is so much
improvement going on that
we have come to believe in constant
betterment as a kind of religion. We
do not sit down as easily as formerly
in howell, without planning to turn it
into palace. This spirit needs soften
ing and toning. There is no sense in
the outcry of farmers during year of
such universal plenty as the present.
So am delighted when l read of one
farmer who has been interviewed and
cannot be inouced to look on the dark
side. but you cannot sell your enor-
mons surplusage to advantage - per
haps not; but we can eat the more,
give away literally and show our in
vention in preserving the rest" but |
you cannot live on apples" ''No, but
folks have got in the habit of eating
too much meat. Fruit is healthier if |
our :wimmin will learn to put their
brains to cooking it." So, however the |
subject was turned, he saw the best of |
it always. Such man is sure to have |
0 good home, and l believe he has a
happy wife and family. The richest
farmer that know is the most miser-
able grum bier, and his wife is chron-
ic grum bier, and the children have run
IF to the city and are not doing any |
more wisely there.
The secret of good children is at least
very largely in not seeing them always
st their worst 1t seems to be impos-
sible for some mothers to see the good
in their own families, although they