Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-23
Life is What We Make 1t.

10 be 1i1u OF lie. because II gives you the
chance to love and to work and TO
play and to look up at the stars;
To be satisfied with your possessions. but
not contented with yourself until you
have made the best of them:
To despise nothing in the world except
falsehood and meanness, and TO fear
nothing except cOwardice;
TO be governed by your admirations rather
than by your diSgusts;
10 covet nothing that is your neighbours
except his kindness of heart and gen
t}eness of manners:
10 think seldom of your enemies, often of
your friends. and every day of Christ;
And to spend as much time as you can.
with body and with spirit, in Gods
QUITO doors;
These are little guide-posts on the foot
path to peace.
Henry Van Dyke.
| do not know of any more beautiful
and helpful words in the English Ian
suage than those quoted above.
Cut them out and put them in your
room where you will read them over ev-
cry day. They hold the essence of true
religion.
To every one who is working through
these summer days / want TO say few
words.
First of all, do not think of your toll
as ''meniaf' whatever it may be. There
is no such thing as mental labor. The
cook, the laundreSs, the maid, the seam
stress, the gardener-are they not imp0r-
tant props to our social structure? We
must eat we must be clean, we must
wear garments and the ground must be
titled and seeds planted and harvests
looked after. Let no man or woman en-
gagged in such occupations imagine the
toll is ''menial."
Respect your work and bring it up to
the level of your own idea of it. Do not
permit the thoughts OF shallow minds to
influence your own in this subject.
Be sorry for the man or woman who
imagines it is creditable to do no work
They are crude beings and you can afford
to regard them with compassion. Re
member how much more readily the
world could dispense with such people
than with you! 1t is the worlds workers
who are missed out of it.
| know working women who carry
sunshine and mirth into every task-the
same tasks l have seen performed with
groans and tears by others.
If you keep your mind and face cheer
full and your heart full of happy expec-
tation your work will not seem like
drudgery to you. Beside, this mental at
titude attracts good luck. Things will
go your way, and you will better your
condition If YOU keep in the optimistic
line of thought.
every day. Read Il sentence which can
tains some helpful idea, like those above
quoted. Commit it to memory. Pass by
the murders and suicides in the daily
papers. and find some news Of import
ance and remember It, Listen when you
have the opportunity to the conversation
of people who have something of interest
to say. and benefit by it. Learn all you
can from books and people. and train
your mind to think about what You read.
hear and see. 1t is astonishing what OPP
portunities will come to US for obtaining
information once we set oHr minds to
catch the light.
If when you awaken in the morning
you think another day in which to add
to my little savings of knowledge in
stead of another day Of hard. dstaSte~
FIJI toll" you will find life assumes new
interest for You.
Some people wear their cares like or
namentS: others like chains. and those
who make chains Of them are never out
Of bondage.
DO not slight -FOUR work because you
feel Won are not we'll paid. Keep doing
vour best. and declaring in your mind
that better recOmpenSe vii! be your share
before long. and il will he.
Persistent thought acts a. slow fuse
it prepares the way To great upheayals
which change old conditions to new ones.