The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-09-24

all day long and every day you might
| practice IL without the least semblance
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 neighbor's
hand on one side, the thumb takes II on
the other, and, pressed together, all
the faculties of the hand give empha-
sis to the salutation. Five sermons
in every healthy hand urge us to hand
shaking.
Besides this every day whenyou start
out load yourself with kind thoughts,
kind words, kind expressions and kind
greetings. When a man or woman does
well, tell him so, tell her so. If you
meet some one who is improved in
health, and it is demonstrated in girth
and color, say: How well you lookl'
But If, 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 l were
really so bad off, he would have said
something about it," We are all, es-
pecially those of a nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible to kind words and
discouraging words. Form 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 outwell, after meeting the first
and hearing his depressing salute we
would begin to examine our sympt oms.
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 pessimists would
be useless surplus of encouragement
My dear sir, my dear madam, what
do you mean by going about this world
with disheartenments? Is not the
supply of gloom and trouble and mis-
fortune enough to meet the demand
without your running 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 plant black or blue.
never saw black flower, and there's
only here and there bluebell or 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 prophesy misfortune. If YOU
must be n prophet at all, be an Ezekiel
and not jeremiah. In ancient times
prophets who foretold evil were do
ing right, for they were divinely di-
rected, but the prophets of evil in our
time are generally false prophets.
Some of our weatherwise people
prophesiedwe would have n summer Of
unparalleled heat. 1t has been very
comfortable summer. Last fall all
the weather prophets agreed in say
ing we should have a winter of ex-
traordinary severity, blizzard on the
heels of blizzard. 1t was the mildest
winterl ever remember to have passed.
Indeed the autumn and the spring al
most showed winter out of the process
sion. Real troubles have no heralds
running ahead of their somber
chariots. and no one has any au-
thority in our time to announce their
coming. Load yourself up with hope
full words and deeds. The hymn once
sung in our churches is unfit to be
sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep mis-
cradle all the time. The old song sung
at the pianos a quarter of a century
ago was right-"Kind words can never
die Such kind words have their nests
in kind hearts, and when they are
Matched out and take wing they cir
Gle round in flights that never cease,
and sportsman's grln cannot shoot
them, and storms cannot ruffle their
wings, and when they cease fight in
these lower skies of earth they sweep
around amid the higher attitudes of
heaven. At Baltimore, I talked into
n photograph. The cylinder contain
ing the words was sent on to Wash
ington, and the next day that cylinder
from another photographic instru-
ment, when turned, gave back to me
the very words / had uttered the day
before and with the same intonations.
Scold into photograph, and il will
scold back. Pour mild words into a
and it will return the
gentleness. Society and the world
and the church are monographs. Give
them acerbity and rough treatment,
and acerbity and rough treatment you
will get back. Give them practical
friendliness. and they will give back