The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-26
THE BRIGHT SIDE.
THE HAPPY FACULTY OF LOOKING
ON THE sEsT SIDE OF LIFE.
Too Many People .A,,os Themselves to Ee
Weighed Dawn Ly the Daily Cares OF
Life That o.u>t lie Set and Fail to see
the Pleasant Thing. Near T:y.

t"e ''he'i tfH Near by.
Everything his - least "A good side to
1t. and scorer q Liter some one will be
able 10 SEQ II. It i Il happy fortune to
be able easily tosre what i,good. though
! do not believe IN shutting our ewes to
the evil. have a friend who never sees
the evil until i oEc-wholr.S l,-r. s.,sa
considers all th;:,gs To he well .nua = It
least and 50 has nc foresight TO ward elf
disaster. This is certainly curious dis
position and nat Il good ane for those
who have the care OF families. What |
do mean is that it i, capital thing to
see the good that really is in I'll thin-
sad TO my ~nei:,llnyr. who is deaf il
n ear. 1t Is a l5ts. my dear: is there
no remedy" i dg.'t th;lk there is.
she said. but the. there Is a great bless
ing i'll it. for | have learned to sleep witt,
my good ear to thelil'aw. and SO no noise
can disturb me" L was a curious illus.
tratlon CT how Il hi1r ns- ii depriva-
ton and make it a iea! advantage. 1t is
a great art to find ont al the good there
Is in life. Emerson s%rs. DO no di!a.e
on your private wroags a.nl personal
ills. But no II eyer becomes tedious
by dilating Oh hsr privileges and JOYS.
The longer | live t,a rore | It'd tl.at
most of orr ,ra1illcs ere IMAGINARY.
There are half a dozen Things we haya
to learn. atd lcany never 30 learn them.
One OF these Is that we have will power
to control IA vast deal that we sit down
underneath. Life has no blessing great
er than its ~antagonisms. Differ as we
may from professional faith cur!sts.
they have "A great truth in store. and
wish they may have VAST influence in
reconstructing sentiment. There is TO !
need OF being an extremist in belief, vet
1t Is a fact that we have cultivated a
kind of moral co~wardice about our dis
eases. believe they are right that we
are vastly more powerful than we have
supposed ourselves to be.
But | am a broader believer than they.
for am confident we cannot only cry
down and ont to half our physical
ails, but to a large proportion of our
troubles and what we call our bothers.
And that is just the meaning of life-it
is a series of defeats or of victories over
small affairs. The habit of making
OF letty evils indicates defeat.
Many a woman is thoroughly whipped
by her ordinary household duties. as
many a ia is whipped out by weeds
and thistles. She never can face a day
with IA smile and a strong will. She
does her duty as : task and never as a
joy. This hefts our duties down: the
opposite way lightens them.
Life everywhere has "a better side to it
f1n, ,,-a "a 49,. :. 1,-o ,,1r..
able often to see. Our choicest gifts and
blessings lie just the other side of our
moments. 1t seems like noun
tain climbing to get a view of a sunrise,
but we are willing to toll hard to get TO
he mountain top. 1t pays not only at
the top, but all the way up. | have a
delicious fern bordered glen that every
summer | visit and do not mind the
bushes that tear nor the extremely hard
climbing to get in and to get out. All.
,he lovely brook at the bottom, and the
island in that brook. and the old
moss covered beech logs, and the banks
If creeping hemlock." 1t pays. Every
'tep pays. ] come back full of rest, not
If WEAKNESS, of joys that sparkle and
like the brook itself. Last summer
took with me an enthusiastic lover of
into my pet ~ravine, and she being
J good scientist found in an hours search
i've sorts of salamanders.
II we live widely and think nobly and
Itudy what the world is. we find that
he cheapest and toughest conceals grand
acts that make character and joy for us.
The world is a ready spread feastfor our
,enses and intellect. But there are races
hat will not eat eggs, and there are
,thers that will not use milk. So there
5 a possibility of not seeing the best
hings about us and hearing the finest
The best question one can
six Of herself is: Are you getting the
of the world about yous | have
.eard the narrowest kind of men preach |