Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-21

A really cultured woman, like a
really cultured man, is all the simpler
and the less obtrusive for her knowl-
edge.
| am persuaded that he who is ca
pable of being a bitter enemy can
never possess the necessary virtues of
a true friend. Fitzosborne.
Believe nothing against another but
upon good Authority; nor report what
hurts another, unless it be greater
hurt to others to conceal it-William
Penn.
Advice is a good thing. but it will
always be something of a nuisance
until the givers of it accept resuonsi-
bility for the bad as readily as they
take credit for the good.
1t is the heart that makes the home,
whether the eve rests on potato
patch or flower garden. The heart
makes the home precious, and it is the
only thing that can. Success.
Let it be our happiness this day to
add to the happiness of those around
4 US, to comfort some sorrow, to relieve
some want, to add some strength to
our neighbours virtue. Charming.
! Only in service does man find his
| life and save it. The idler joins the
procession of the perishing He is the
! degenerate, the parasite among men
kindred to the fruitless mistletoe of
the forest, the eyeless fish of the cave
January Success.
Be sure that ightforwaidness is
more than match at last for all the
involved wndings of deceit. In your
daily life do what you feel right, say
what you feel true. and leave, with
faith and boldness, the consequences
to God. F. W. Robertson.
Little self denals, little honesties,
little passing words OF sympathy, little
silent nameless acts of kindness, little
silent victories over favorite tempta-
tions-these are the silent threads of
gold which, when woven together,
CLEAN out so brightly in the pattern of
life that God approves. F. W. Far
rar, d. ID.
little and to spend less: to make upon
the whole a family happier by his
presence: to renounce where that shall
be necessary, and not to be embittered
to keep a few friends, but these with
out capitalization; above all on the
same grim conditions, to keep friends
with himself here is task for all
that man has of forttude and deli
cacy. Robert Louis Stevenson.
There is golden mean" of cir
cumstance referred to in Cowper's
translation of Horace:
HE that holds fast the golden mean
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great.
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plaques that haunt the rich mans door,
1t is not the so-called blessings of |
life, its sunshine and calm, and pleas |
ant experiences. that make men, but /
its rugged experiences, its storms and [
and trials. Early adversely
is often a blessing in disguise. w.
Mathews.
And that same principle may be APP
piled to sins of the disposition. You
cannot eradicate a bad disposition,
bad temper, by negative repressive
reatment, but you can overcome it by
positive treatment, you can sweeten it
by putting sweetness into it. The
way to make sour beverage sweet is
not to take out the sourness, but to
put in some sugar. And that is the
Way 10 SWeeleU uuIldD HdtuTe-tO put
n the love of God, the gentleness of ,
Jesus Christ, and that will operate
when everything else is of no use. - .
Henry Drummond.
The laws of nature, whether in the
citation of the sexes or the relation of
he classes, are working out the will
# God. If they are not doing so. / v
IN compelled to conclude that for g. f
90 years the Almighty has been allow
ng the world to go in the wrong d.
ection under the influence of laws I
yhich humanity has been powerless to !,
ontrol. Before l can think that, / =
hall conclude there is no God in the n
'orld at all, and put Christianity u
side as painful and cruel delusion. y
find the sadness of the world, the t,
lystery of its great burden of sorrow,
5 perplexing as it appears to most
len, but | should abandon faith alto l.
ether if | did not feel that on the ;,
hole and in the long run and taking y
lie universal view, the world is ruled
] Righteousness. Hall Game. g