The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-18

The bright little spiders
Crocheting their tides,
Beholding their delicate web;
l feel very certain
They are wove for curtain
To hang all around my bed.
Endowed with passion
OF fancy and fashion.
They furnish my room with cara.
/ say it, l mean it.
You ought to have seen it;
There's nothing so fine at the fair.
Bewitching air castles.
All laces and tassles,
Wall pockets for catching the dust;
To me it is serious
Something mysterious
The brave little dears
Soon lose all their fears
When they see me so helpless in bed;
How noiseless, how winning,
AS weaving and spinning
Their fine geometrical web.
There's no Jennie June
This side of the moon
Can work at such fancy as they;
The flying trapeze,
Afloat on the breeze,
The will of their Maker obey.
Carlyle chronic grumbler though he
was himself, appreciated the value of
cheerfulness. Give us, o give US, he
cries. the man who sings at his work!
Be his occupation what it may, he Is
equal to any of those who follow the
same pursuit in silent sullenness. He
will do more in the same time-he VIII
do it better-he will persevere longer.
One is scarcely sensible of fatigue while
he marches to music. The very stars are
said to make harmony as they revolve
in their spheres. Wondrous is the
strength of cheerfuness, altogether past
1n,1l &c non vpr-C Of endurance r.
forts to be permanently useful must be
uniformly joyous-a spirit all sunshine,
graceful from very gladness, beautiful be-
cause bright.
1t is a gain to the world when people
are content to be themselves, not Clipped
to the smooth pattern of the times, but
simple original and unaffected in ways
and words.-Miss Thackeray.
Words.
Have you any unkind thoughts?
Do not write them down
Write no word that giVeth pain:
Written words may long remain.
Have you heard some idle tale?
Do not write it down.
GoSsipS may repeat it Ger,
Adding to its bitter store.
Have you any careless jest?
Bury it and let it rest;
1t may wound some loving breast
Words of love and tenderness.
Words of truth and kindness,
Words of comfort for the sad,
Words of gladnesS for the glad,
Words of counsel for the bad
Wisely write them down. zs(
Words. though small. are mighty things
Pause before you write them:
Little words may grow and bloom
With bitter breath or sweet perfume;
Pray before you write them.
Little self-denials, little honesties, little
passing words of sympathy. little nameless
acts of kindness-these are the silent
threads of gold which. when woven to-
gether, CLEAN out brightly in the pattern
of life.-Canon FarTar.
LET US ever act as brothers
Meier with pity be content;
Always doing good TO others.
Both in action and intent
Though the pity may be useful.
IT'S little if It's ALL
And the smallest piece of needed help
Is better than it all.
Every branch, if not every individual
member, ought to have an Zee Fund"
mite box to receive contributions for the
coming summer when ice VIII be SO much
needed by the sick and shut-i1s, many Of
whom are unable to buy it, Send to Miss
Ellis for a mite, box enclosing stamp for
mailing and save the pennies up till the
warm weather comes; and the demand for
ice $3.50 great,igo aois.
.-.5ys rrtsJ4J nt I8G III
Till a man has. learned to be happy
without the sunshine. and therein becomes
capable of enjoying it perfectly it is well
that the sunshine and the shadow should
be mingled as only God knows how to
mingle them.-George Macdonald
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