The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
Our Social Chat.
= F0ITED BY AUNT JENNIE, hALELoL
aunt N LETTER.

Did you ever g0G uOWA O'oA
fire. on a cold winter night AFTER
all others had retired and with
the lamp turned low allo"
vour fancy full play? Dream day
dreams indulge in the hope Tor re-
a7ization of ambition still untul,
filled ; long to be what you are not
the circle of thought extending I'M
til it embraces many others beside
v~o1rself? Dreams of their child
hood are always pleasant to those
who feel the burden of years. we
live again those happy days n see
in fancy faces of former associates
as they were unwritten by Times
pen. and eyes whose luster has not
dimmed. To dream a pleasant
dream is a benediction, helping you
to bear the burdens of the day fol
lowing. It may be and is, l believe,
generally accredited to a ~disOrdered
system when we dream unpleasant
dreams. Sure it is that they seem
TO cast a gloomy veil Ove the hap
penings Of the next day. Most OF us
think that if it were possible for
every wish of ours for wealth and
Dhvsical comfort to be realized this
would indeed be a happy world.
Have you ever seen a person SO stu
ated-the came of untold envy by
those seemingly not SO blest? Well,
l have seen one such person and L
think l can truthfully say that she
was II of the most miserable beings
I have ever seem. The human mind
is wonderfully constructed and in
order to feel pleasure we must real
ize what pain is, and to appreciate
plenty we must know want in some
form. l do not mean hat you your
self must experience the gripping
clutch of his bOny fingers, but you
must see it in the gaunt faces of
others and this will bring the reali-
zation and appreciation of your own
blessings. To be shut away from
the world and it's needs is a calamity,
and to feel no interest in your fell
low mans we'll being is sin.
If you have never extended a
helping hand in time of dire distress
you have missed n of Gods
sweetest blessings. The privilege
to do so has perhaps never been given
you, for you may never have known
d person in such STARTS. Well, if
you have not you have seer misery
in some form, l am quite sure, and
if you have not endeavOred to allie
viate it, think you that a
desperate case would secure from
you any aid? How true it is that
''straws tell which way the wind
blows" Little deeds of kindness
and little acts of love" tend to make
this old world better and always help
the n who acts the part of good
Samaritan. Did it ever strike you
that at least half of the human race
live with their eyes shut, from the
cradle to the grave? In one sense
this is true. You know many such
persons, those who think only of
self and self~-interest, whose hearts
are so small that to do a kindness
would, they seem to think, rupture
some of the main arteries ana cause
a sudden collapse. Exercise strength
ems the physical body, and the same
is true of our moral nature. Just
try helping a brother lift his burden
and e if I do not tell you the truth
when I assert that your arms will
seem stronger when lifting your
own.
Another county heard from this
week. W. gladly enroll Anson's
representative, but would have been
glad had she said more than merely
introduce herself
Come again, all of you.