Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-02-05

How Shall We Pan TO Get from Ia al the
Good It C.su G4scY
What is sure to make II a rc,I-lettet
day?
What is the very best way 10 spend il Z
How shall we plan TO get from it all that
il can give? To make the very most of
single day, a holiday. day that we
are at liberty TO spend as We like, may
be something of puzzle.
IL suggests the QueStiou-what dc
you care most about doing with all
your time? Time is the stuff of which
life IS made, and just TO he cure of what
we care most to do with il is worth
thinking about
Most young people. and in fact pretty
much all persons, have some favorite
occupation or study. % both I'm one
some special direction i'm which they
are strongly drawn, that lies outside of
the daily necessary routine of work
For those who have ordinarily but lit
tie leisure (and i'm this busy work-a-day
world this includes the majority. the
indulgence of this private liking is a
capital use for at least a part OF the
holiday. II may lead TO important re-
most eager TO do may De a mere amuse-
ment Of which we soon tire. or II may be
the thing that we were made TO do,
the real serious business OF our lives.
which circumstances have seemed &c
put beyond our reach. vet which per
severance will enable us TO achieve
However that may lie. there is no
question about the pleasure Of doing
the thing one likes best. II may be
rlusic or history. or football. or wood
carving. or what rot there is certainly
very keen satisfaction i'm following
ones own personal taste. And the
chances are that IL YOU are enough i'm
earnest, something worth while will
come OF il. Too much is made of the
motive or making money. II is well to
TcmcIuher that there is another kind Of
satisfaction in good work. in every kind
of employment. done for its own snSe
il does no: make much difference what
the work is. Any kind of useful or
beautiful thing done. i'm the measure
IN which the heart is thrown into it.
doing ones very best for the sake OF
seeing it well done. is good and satisfy
ing. Time spent i'm this way is we'll
spent.
II there is any such thing rs q secret
Of happiness. il is surely this make
others happy. And all good work is
an antidotc for scliishncss. Not only
that. but il * one Of the surest. most
lasting and rightful sources ~ con
tinual happiness. To talk about work
ns the best piay--the best resource
for enjoying holiday. sccI1s on the
surface a contradiction. But the best
play * not idleuess merely. To he
worth having, il must be some kind OF
activity, and To he really delightful. il
must be something loved. To make the
most Of holiday, then, il is quite fair
TO do the very thing that You care for
personally, however unimportant it may
:ppear TO somebody else.
Something is due to the day itself
l. it Thanksgiving day? Are we not
more ready 10 give thanks i'm sincerity
for material blessings. for abundant
food and rich dress, prosperity i'm the
shape OF money. houses and lands. than
for better culture and richer gains in
building up our own characters and
lives? Yet these are worth more.
Is il Christmas? DO we think Of IL
as time of gifts, OF merry making. az
unusual 'gayety and self-indulgcncc. or
Ito we care first for its higher mean
inCS? DO we make IL n time Of good
viii toward all. time for earnest
thought and generous deeds 10 pro-
mote the welfare of those whom we love.
first. but also. so far as We may. Of all
our human brothers and sisters?
Even ON a holiday. and perhaps MOST
on holiday, when our time is free from
ordinary claims. little honest discus
sion with ones self or the very best
uses and objects 10 which wc~can de-
vote n little of our time will not come
nmiss.-Country Gentleman.