Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-23
Uncle Toms
Chat.
The Secret Of a Happy Life.


happiness but unfortunately they
get living and life mixed. Hap
piness is delusive for sometimes
when we think we can grasp it,
it vanishes like vapor. Then we
stop and ask what will bring
happiness. Here we have toiled
and struggled and have secured
money, houses and land, still we
are not happy. A living must
not be confused with life, my
young friends. OF course it is
right to strive with all your
might to make a living but max
ing living Is not making a hap
Ply life. Building Il happy life
requires care for there is no
chance to undo errors or mis-
takes. You must begin the struc-
ture of happy life on kindly
deeds and thoughts noble, pure
and good. A happy life is not
found in society for society is
shallow, very tickle and needs a
real heart. Neither does honor
nor position give to you happy
life for they too often have to be
paid for in sacrifices and hard
work. Then well may you ask
if houses, money, fame and honor
do not bring the blessing of hap
piness, pray what does. Friends,
young and old, try living for
others and not for self; selfish
people are never happy. We
meet great many along life's
pathway who seem to have only
one thought and that is to get all
you can as cheap as you can, and
if possible, get it for nothing. Is
this unseliishness and is it right?
Are we doing as we would be
done by? Real happiness means
unselfishness, Il looking to the
needs and wants of others and
not to self, forgetting ourselves
in trying to give pleasure to
others and in doing this we are
make happy. The secret of Il
happy life is helping others. The
more you help the happier you
will be and greater will be the
amount of sunshine in your life.
"A selfish person can no more
have happy life than man OF
woman can live a christian life
without the grace of God in the
heart. You will have to guard
yourself from selfishness by
prayer lest sin creeps in. Young
people, do you wish a beautiful
and enduring life, if SO let the
foundation of your lives be built
upon the two great command
ments and not upon self. Your
parents not only send you to
school for the purpose of learn
ing to read and write, but they
have (or ought to have) higher
motive, a basis or foundation
laid, upon which your life is tC
be erected. They expect to make
of You Il noble, honorable, happy
set of men and women, compe.
tent and qualified to meet all the
duties and obligations Of life,
They want you to learn what il
takes to make your life happy
and beautiful, and | am proud tC
} tell you that helping others will
give you as much joy and happi-
ness as it gives to those you help.
Not long ago | was called upon
to help a person and | didn't see
how | could, well the fact is
didn't want to. | overcamc that
-, disposition and did my duty
, When | saw the real happiness
had caused | experienced a feel
/ ing myself that fully repaid me
= and even now the happy counte
o.. nanccs of the ones | helped come
up before me and makes me glaC
E and thrills my heart. These are
, the sweetest memories of ON
: lives, friends, to know we have
l helped some one and made then
happy. Days, months and year
/. may come and 90 but thcs,
t memories are kept bright an'
: fresh and often it seems tn,
r flowers Of love blossom brighte
e and brighter as the days 90 by
0 These little deeds Of kindnes
h will be jewels in your life; laio
; up in the city of God they vii
e not rust "o5 fade and when you
t body is laid in the grave the!
will still be bright and beautiful