The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-12

How How does it happen that you never
oh, but do, " she said gaily: then.
with faint flush on her sweet face which
now seemed to me so much better than
pretty, you see, my dear, l always
wanted to be loved, and my ugly face
nearly broke my heart; and when I had
the accident that gave me that''-pointing
TO her crutch-''for the rest of nv life I
was desperately wretched; could not
reconcile myself to being only pitied. I
remembered poor old ill-tempered uncle
OF mine who wore out his wife5s patience
then his daughters, then, on the daugh,
ter's DEATH was the prey of his servan ts
who hated and cheated him. 1t is so easv
TO wear out the patience of even those
VINO love you-lt is so tedious to them to
hear your complaints, no matter how
much suffering causes them.
i resolved whatever l suffered I would
try not to complain. When the pain got
too hard used to ask my nurses to leave
me by myself little; and then l used to
cry and groan and kick-and YOU don +
, know what comfort it has been to have
the free use OF my voice, that way. And
out and [ would be glad to have the
nurses come back again
i'Hhat was the time when began to be
interested IN other people; couldn't read
Tor only short time, and I began to
study people. Besides her smile had a
certain sad irony to my fancy people
get tired reading about other people S
trials or hopes, but they don't soon get
tired of telling you of their own.
'At tirst-for am going to be very
frank-I used to perceive very clearly the
little vanities and foibles of these living
books that l tried to read; but, oh! so
much sooner than you would think. the
pathetic reason for so many of them came
forth, and the tender and noble traits
mixed IN with them, until | grew so fond
OF my studies and so sorry.
At the same time l considered that if
wanted love must give something for
1T; and l don't know anything so all
around precious as cheerfulness, unless
it's sympathy. So I cultivated them both.
and when | couldn't be cheerful went
and fiocked by myself Being chronic
invalid has some advantages; for ex-
ample, you can always get off.
''Then considered the various ways to
make ones self agreeable. Now l said
to myself, you do not only need not to
be nuisance to people-you need to be
an active pleasure. The invalid when in
my circumstances-that is, with money
enough to live comfortably-does not
need to be useful; SO much the more call
for her to be agreeable. The useful peo-
pie have to spend most of their time in
work; therefore, let the invalid be the
missionary of innocent pleasure.
"Wel, my dear, first of all I learned
to cook. You saw Baker, my maid, help.
ing me with the chatting dish-why.
Baker and know about a hundred things
that can be done with alcohol for stove.
l found my cooking so interesting to so
many people that it was worth learning,
purely as an accomplishment.
Then, learned games. OF course all
the games requiring muscles were out of
the question for me, but l learned what
others | could. | have not bit of
musical gift and singing was way beyond
me, but learned enough of the piano to
play for the children, and 1 can pick out
tunes on the violin. / bought the violin
because Baker wanted to learn-Baker
plays extremely well.
'You see l have only a few little
humble arts of pleasing-but they bring
me much happiness. / have had very
happy life, my dear"
81 have noticed, - said I, stthat YOU
never are minute late to meals.''
"Why should l be?'' laughed she. 81
was once in a family where a young man
was recovering from bad illness. Poor
fellow! | don't suppose he had the least
notion of the trouble and irritation that
he caused. Whenever he felt hungry he
demanded a special meal to be cooked,
although it wouldn't have hurt him the
least in the world to wait for hall an hour
or an hour until the regular meal time.
His poor sister who had cold had to read
to him until she was hoarse-and then he
complained of her voice. And fussy-I
never knew that there could be SO many
things to make fuss about. Yet he was
a good tempered fellow under ordinary
conditions. 1 took it for an awful warn
ing.'
II dom think you really needed it;
never heard fussy word from you. You
make no trouble at aIl.'
tThere is another thing, now we are