Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1905-12-29
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LARKIN 5 5
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hold, don't go about it as if you
thought it was an imposition and thai
it was something you had to do. One
OF the most helpful girls ever saw in
a home, and who really did all she
could for others in the family because
she loved to do it, took al the comfort
and pleasure away from those she
chose to minister to and aid by her
fretful and unhappy face and SEEM
ingly reluctant feeling she had in at.
tending to the duties she so well per-
formed. Yet, no one even asked this
girl to do the hundred and one little
kindly acts she was doing for others.
1t was all done through her own free
will and accord, and had she gone
about it with one of the happy, bright
little smiles that illuminated her whole
face when doing for others outside of
the home circle, it would have been a
source of the greatest pleasure to those
whom she really loved and tried to do
for. Her father idOlized her and she
was ready to wait on him and do the
little things she knew he would appre-
ciate. She would read to him by the
hour, but she generally let him know
that she was sacrificing other things
she preferred doing for his pleasure.
She was always ready, too, to aid in
charity work, and no matter how great
a favor was demanded by parties who
had no claim whatever upon her, she
was never too busy to accede to their
wishes and there wasn't the slightest
bit Of frown on her pretty face.
used to look at her and wonder why
her sweetest and best was given to
strangers instead of bestowing them
on her own family who worshiped her.
This girl is not alone in this unenvi-
able habit. The company manners
are too often neglected until there are
strangers within the sacred precincts
Of the home. If any one possesses this
deplorable trait don't know of bet
ter time to turn over a new leaf and
resolve to shine in their own homes
rather than reserve the best and sweet
est for the outside friends. There will
come a day when the family circle will
be broken up. There will be vacant
chairs, some of the loved ones having
obeyed the last summons. Others will
have drifted out into life's great sea.
They may find some safe harbor to
anchor, or they may drift with the
tide as it ebbs and flows, some of them
maybe becalmed, helpless to move, and
their fate unknown. Then will the
pages of memory turn back, every un-
kind word, every act that hurt those
you loved the best will appear before
you. That sub-conscious mind of yours
will reveal them fast enough then In
cidents that you considered too trivial
to even give second thought at the
time will have appeared in new light.
IT is something you cannot forget, try
as you may. Then why not save this
heartache, these regrets that never
cease to pain you, by giving the best,
the sweetest in life, in your own home?
1t is time to turn over new leaf.
That is every ones privilege at the be-
ginning of new year. We make
good resolutions without end. We vow
that we will draw line through the
dead leaves of the past, and turn new
leaf, pure and unsullied. We think at
the time that no act of ours is going to
deface that new page, but before the
din and merrymaking attending the
advent of the new year has barely died
away those good resolutions have been
broken time and again. Who will say,
however, that we are not better for the
attempt even that though failure
marked them for his own. Our inten-
tions are good. heard man remark
on the last day of 1904, 81 am going to
turn over new leaf. | know smok-
ing is not good for me and my wife is
after me all the time to stop it. To
please her am going to stop 1t. This
Is my last smoke and to celebrate the
event l bought this twenty-five-cent
cigar" Then he blew clouds of pearly
smoke from his fragrant weed and 1t
fioated off into rings and wreaths. He
watched them with an air of satisfac-
tion that was pleasant to remember.
He felt that he was doing an act to be
commended by all who knew his fond
ness for the weed. 1t was a great sac
rifice, and he wanted every one to
know of the sacrifice he was making
just to please his wife. l met him
three days later. He was smoking and
looked ashamed to think he had been
caught in the act SO soon after New
Year. "You see," he said, II had a