Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-22

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but to drop the chin in greeting is ac-
companied with so little excrtion that
all day long and every day you might
practice It wi hout the least SO mb!auce
| of fatigue. SO, also, the structure of
the hand indicates hand shaking; the
! knuckles not made so that the fingers
can turn out, but so made that the
| fingers can turn in, as in clasping
| hands, and the thumb divided from
and set aloof from the fingers, so that
while the fingers take your neighbours
hand on one side, the thumb takes 1t on
1 the other, and, pressed together, all
the faculties of the hand give empha-
sis to the salutation. Five sermons
in every heAthy hand urge US to hand
shaking.
Besides this every day when oustart
out load yourself with kind thoughts,
kind words, kind expressions and kind
greetings. When man or woman does
we'll, tell him so, tell her so. II you
meet some one who is improved in
health, and 1t Is demonstrated In girth
and color say: GLOW well you look!"
But II, on the other hand, under the
wear and tear OF life he appears pale
and exhausted, do not introduce san
itary subjects or say anything at all
about physical condition. In the case
OF improved health you have by your
words given another impulse toward
the robust and the jocund, while In the
case OF the failing health you have
arrested the decline by your silence,
by which he concludes: "If | were
really so bad Off, he would have said
something about It," We are all, es-
pecially those Of nervous tempera-
ment susceptible to kind words and
discouraging words. Form a conspir-
acy against us, and let ten men meet
us at certain points on our way over
to business, and let each one say: How
sick you look!" though we should
start out well, after meeting the first
and hearing his depressing salute we
would begin to examine our symptoms.
After meeting the second gloomy ac-
costing we would conclude we did
not feel quite as well as usual. After
meeting the third our sensations would
be dreadful, and after meeting the
fourth, unless we suspected con-
spiracy, we would go home and go to
bed, and the other six pessmists would
be n useless surplus Of encouragement.
Ny dear sir, my dear mndam, what
do you mean by going about this world
with disheart"nmcntsp Is not the
supply of gloom and trouble and mis-
fortune enough to meet the demand
without your running n factory of
pins and spikes? Why should you
plant black and blue In the world
when God so seldom plants them?
Plenty of scarlet colors, plenty Of yell
low, plenty of green, plenty of pink,
but very seldom n plant black or blue.
never saw u black flower, and there's
only here and there blucbell or II vio-
let but the blue is for the most part
reserved for the sky, and we have to
look up to see that, and when we look
up no color can do us harm. Why not
plant along the paths of others the
brightnesses instead of the glooms?
DO not prophcsy misfortune. If you
lIhN' wv ~ 'i'I'ii'' Nv hii' Wv ilI iAENNlNl
aud not Il jeremiah, In ancient times
prophets who forctoId evil were do
ing right. for they were divincly di-
rectcd but the prophets of evil in our
time arc generally FALSE prophets.
Some of our wcnthcrwise people
prophcsir,l we would have summer of
unparalleled heat, 1t has been very
comfortable summer. Last fall all
the weather prophets agreed in say
Ing we should have II winter of ex-
trnordinnry severity, blizzard on the
heels of blizzard. u WAS the milClcst
winterI ever remc,Nocr TO have passed.
Indeed the autumn aud the spring al
most showed winter out Of the process
sion, Real troubles have no hcrulds
running ahead Of thcir somber
chnriots, and no one has any au-
thority In our time to announce their
coming. Load Yourself up with hope
full words nud deeds. The hymn once
sung in our churches Is unfit to be
sung for II says:
We should suspect some danger near
where we possess delight
W tNitI NbI'N' lhih uRt W Keep IlllS+
cradle NIL the time Tho old song sung
ut the pianos quarter of Il century
ago was right Kind words can never
die" Such kind words have their nests
In kind hearts, and when they are
hatchcd ont and take wing they cir
Gle round in lights that never cease.
and sportsman$ gun cannot shoot
them, aud storms cannot rnf1lc their
wings, and when they cease flight in
these lower skies of earth they sweep
around amid the higher attitudes of
heaven. At Baltimore, ! talked into
u photograph, The cylinder contain
ing the words was sent on to Wash
ington, and the next day that cylinder
from another photographic instru
mcut, when turned gave hack To me
the very words | had uttered the dav
before and with the same intonatious
Scold into u photograph, and il will
scold back, Pour mild words into
phonogranh, and II will return the
gcntleueSs. Society aud the world
aud the church are Photographs. Give
them acCrhitN and rough trrntmrnt