Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17
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ter fulfilling. Yesterday, for example. we
may have been unwise, yesterday We ware
wrong, yesterday we did those things we
ought not to have done and left undone
those things We ought to have done. but
today we will be wise. We will be right We
will do the things we ought to do, and there
shall be health in US.
We straightway choose the books we will
read. the subjects we will study, the lee
lures we will attend. We decide to cult
waite the faculties possibly the talents that
have been intrusted to us.
We will be brave we will be cheerful and
make sunshine in the house; we will be In.
dustrious and learn what application, pa
thence and perseverance mean; we will
scorn deceit the polite lie, the polite eva
sion; we will be unselfish. particularly in
the matter of the easiest chair, the pleas
ATTEST window.
bility comes from Indigestion we will try to
have no indigestion, eating only those things
that are wholesome, looking askance at
candies and going by ON the other side and
thinking twice about the special tempta-
ton to the appetite. We will take care of
our health as a matter of duty to ourselves
and to others We will never wear thin
shoes out of doors again, we will not take
in that extra inch about the waist, we VIII
not go too thinly clad for the sake of look
ing fine and slender and chic; we will take
our eight hours sleep, we will have no more
hearing of the chimes at midnight; we Will
1t is our eyes and not our glasses that are
made of pebblestones; we will mend our
manners, too-we will be particular in those
politenesses which are the expression of
good feeling, which tighten life for every
one.
We will talk nosgossIp-no, nor listen to
it. We will believe good and not Ill of peo-
pie. We will impute no low motives-we will,
in fact, make ourselves as perfect as ma
ture allows and endeavor to be something
pleasing in the heavenly eyes And all this
resolving once made, no matter how often
ardor dims and enthusiasm wanes, there
is some change in our gait, some hope for
our better and truer selves, whose powers
are lying as great potentialities infoided in
our groSser, lower natures.
One Of
The most useful of women was certain
dear old lady who lent her sympathetic car
TO young and old, and their joys and trou-
bles-not to mention those of their neigh
bors in perhaps undue proportion.
She listened to all with earnest, warm
hearted attention; she gave wise counsel
and there the matter ended, for she never
repeated aught that by any possibility could
wound or harm. and always admonished
those who brought such matters to her
knowledge to remember that "he that COW
eteth transgression seeketh love, but he
that repeateth a matter separateth friends
OF course. there are evils that must be
exposed In order to prevent further harm.
Everything in the nature of a deliberate
crime gains in it's power for evil with every
hour that 1t can skulk from the light Of
day.
But there are many evils which 1t Is the
part of lore to cover-the hasty word or
fault-finding which even the best Of US
sometimes will utter in regard to those
whom we love dearly; the strong express
sion of wounded feeling which will be for
gotten as soon as the wound is healed; the
sharp criticism, half true, half jest, which
has power to hurt, though not inspired by
malice; the harsh judgment upon partly UNI
derstood facts.
In our hearts we all know Instances where
the repetition of trivial matters has worked
much harm, where fair flames have been
blighted untHstly, where hearts have been
wounded, where business credit has been
shaken, even where crimes have been COM
mitted in consequence of some needless tell
ing of some petty and in itself innocent
transgression of rights, which are more
conventional than moral. and which would
have been harmless had 1t been hidden be-
meath the mantle of charitable silence.
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