The record-union., 1893-02-09
saving life, put big pinch of Leart in,
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saving life, put big pinch Of Leart in,
to season the transaction.
THE POWER OF AGREEABLENEss.
1t is just as easy to answer pleasantly
the question stranger asks, although it
may break in upon your time, as it is to
respond grumpily and with uncalled for
reserve. l can imagine the whole world
coming under the influence of good-na
tufed spirit, as strong man comes un-
ner the influence of laughing gas. So
that even disagreeable and painful things
lose their venom and their sting.
Imagine woman stepping onto street
car, as many OF US daily do, after pro-
Ionged and veXatious chase through the
mud. The first impulse is to scold. But
what good will that do? All the hard
words said can never undo the happen
lEgs OF past minute. The conductor,
born i'll most cases with lifted heel
against womankind, is primed with a
rude retort, and the passengers are pre-
pared to stare, or laugh, or remain stu
pldIy passive, as the case may require.
But, instead of scolding, suppose the
woman is ready with good natured
laugh and pleasant word? How the at
mosphere changes. 1t is as though It
plume of lilac had swung through the
air! The conductor feels an unwonted
glow IN his heart, and the woman leaves
an impression behind her when she quits
the car vastly more to be desired than
she would have done had she given way
TO undue recriminations. Who would
not love to be remembered for u pleasant
answer or gentle voice rather than for
pretty nose or a well-modeled chin?
was standing once at the bar of bag
gage-checker'S den. If there is a harder
place to try a woman's soul, deliver me
from 1t. Prattling babes are of more ac-
count, and insects have more weight than
The aVAr1Un fnO1nla ON riS or bar la
the baggageman with her check. The
woman who stood by my side was one of
the sunnlest-souIed women God ever let
live in cloudy world. You all know her
name, but not everybody knows her ma
ture. Ii they did the world would be bet
ter.
"Myra Bradwell," said 1 to my COM
panion, 'in just one moment ! shall kill
TINS man II he doesn't pay attention to me.
w nat is he here for anyway? Are we to
lose our train for such wretchedly inso-
lent creature as he?'
Perhaps l should have carried out my
Ghreat, Tor L wear hat pin and WELD a
long arm, but l can never forget the tone
ana smile with which my companion
quleted me down?
Wait minute, DEAR" said she, "the
poor man IS tired, and no wonder. Let me
Try little sugar on the bear!' Then,
turning to the surly fellow with smile
like peaches and cream, she said:
My friend, won't you please help us to
gel our train? We have been waiting Il
good while and times most up, and it's
plaln TO be seen you poor boys are over
worked, but just please help us out, won't
you?"
L wish you could have seen the effect of
that voice and smilel 1t taught me les
son which l have never forgotten, and
long alter the echoes of that gentle speech
nave NnnlS she'd and tha 81,
Womanly face grown dim 1 shall cherish
the lesson which fell like oil upon nv
troubled spirit. | lay this little flower at
the !eet OF the living woman without
waiting, as too many do, to throw it on
her grave.
You want to live in the world, girls, as
spray OF day lilies live in June Every
wind that blows, be it great or small.
through your lives should set an intlu-
ence straying like perfume through the
AIR. \ GU will not have to hunt the breeze
and the opportunity-all you have 10 do
Will be to cultivate the sweetness, the
wind will do the rest.
CANNOT BE TOO GooD-NATURED.
Then continue to be more and more
od-natured, and sympathetic, and sweet
hammered, l beseech you. Let no false
idea of reserve or decorum stand between
you and the performance of spontane-
ous act OF kindness. Never fear that YOU
can be too good -natured, or too obliging,
or too amiable, either in business or in
social life. The same bright spontaneity
and ready sympathy that makes home
happy will make the Office and the space
behind the counter happy also, if perse-
vered in.
If heaven did not give you genial ma
ture in the first place cultivate it. You
can develop musical ability without an
absolutely correct ear by close practice
and study. In the same way you can cul-
t1yate fellowship with human hearts.
Don't keep the life about you wilder
ness, merely because you were not born
to rose garden. Set to work quickly to
plant slips in the desert before the time
draws nigh for loves opportunity to
cease. Remember, it is not always youth
time any more than it is always May. and
gratis and slips that grow readily iu the
spring will take no root in bleak Noyem-
Der. Cultivate your smiles and your
services of love now, and old age shall be
but the afternoon trellis, hung deep with
clustering rows, as beautiful in the sun
sets glow as in the dawn.-Amber in the
Chicago Herald.