The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1907-04-27
Some Evening Reveries.

gether. Go out into the sunshine anC
look about you. Is this a time fol
the blues? See how gleefully all ma
ture is smiling. Don't be behind
hand in being happy when everything
else is rejoicing. This world is not 6
vale Of tears. Thus life was not given
to us as a time for weeping and wall
ing. Come, get yourself out of this
slough of despond. This is time fol
action. Never sit by the roadside and
lament over by-gones, or despair be-
cause impossibilities are not brought
to pass. There are just as grand op-
portunities perhaps before you as have
ever been experienced. There may
not be just as much prosperity and
happiness for your future, if you
so will, as there has been in the past.
And what a face! You'll spread
horror by such a long-drawn counte-
nance. Indeed it is enough to give a
buffon the blues, even to look at it.
Go to the glass and get glimpse of
yourself, and then compare it with the
looks of friends with whom you meet,
but don't stand looking at yourself
long, walk forth in Gods pure atmos-
phere. Give hearty good day to
every man and woman you meet; a
smile and nod at every child; CHR
rup or whistle to every dog, and there
will be but little more trouble with
the blues. The ailment cannot stand
such treatment. 1t fourishes only on
moodlness and dissatisfaction. Sun
light dispels the clouds of murky
sky, and so does sunny disposition
scatter the blues.
Do not sit and ponder over trouble;
you cannot dispel it by making your
self miserable. Newer look into the
future WIN uespuir, you cannot cross
a bridge until you come to it. Don't
harrow your mind over things that
cannot be helped. Live confding in
the present. The past cannot now be
remedied, and you have yet to try the
future. Now is when you must act,
if you act at all. Now is when you
must be happy if you expect to enjoy
yourself. So do not NOPE. Force
yourself to be careful. The blues will
not stay long if you don't embrace
them. When you are threatened
with an attack whistle yankee Doo-
die" or roll out "Old Hundred" and
we pledge our word for it, you can
soon laugh with the best of them.
Show us a person who can whistle or
ling when dissappointments come and
We will show you one who is never
;roubled with the blues. The remedy
S infallable. Try it and be convinc-
ID.
Did you ever know a woman to re-
ret that she knew how to do exquis-
tely fine needle-work or plain sewing,
o bake light, wholesome bread, or de-
icious pies and cakes? Did you ever
now one who was ashamed of her
kill in picking or preserving, or who
7as unwilling to admit that-she could
rrange table, order course dinner,
nd if need be,do the cooking herself?
10, indeed, but many a woman has
oent years in trying to acquire the
of household affairs of
hich she should have been mistress
efore she was fairly in long dresses.
he mother who fails to instruct her
aughter in such branches defrauds
sr of woman's best right, the right to
knowledge of how to make home.
srhaps only home for herself, but,
!, how pretty and pleasant it can be I
the tact, the skill, the grace of a
lined hand and eye and taste are t
ere to bring it into perfect symmetry {