The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Comparative Contentment-A Great TuFth
strihingly Examplined- Successful
Opening of the white city.
school Children Celebrate
MeDonourh Day.

School Children Celebrate
McDonough Day.
New Orleans, La, May 8, 1907.
staff Correspondence of The Chief.
When we have learned the lesson Of
content, surely we have mastered the
greatest problem of human life. re-
member reading somewhere some time
ago that nearly every joy we expert
ence is compar alive, and the longer I
live the more strikingly is the truth of
that assertion brought home to me.
Thusly do we argue: ST have not as.
large supply of this worlds goods.
as I would like to have, but then.
j think how much more fortunate am
than SO many othersln Contentment,
is not the faculty for being grateful
because one is better off than the next
fellow; it Is simply and purely the state
of being satisfied for no other reason
than BECAUSE. Our development 40
malcontents begins when We are very
little children, and even In that en-.
chanted period the joys we hug TO our
small bosoms are mostly compar atlYs
ones. ] took the littlest friend have TO-
Audubon Park last Sunday afternoon.
Such 8 perfect afternoon SIS it wssI
The park looked like nothing so much
as great cup brimming with gol-
den wine Of sunlight, and fragranb
with the moist, earthy sweetness Of
early spring. The littlest one and 3
made ourselves at home In the velYaf
shadow of splendid old oak, and
while she busted her small self gather
ing clover blossoms, employed the
moments weaving the flowers into q,
chain. By going-home time we had
fashioned chain more than thres
yards long, and the little maid went
charging down the avenue with the
fragrant length of blossoms trailing
after her on the pavement, completely
absorbed In the enjoyment of this
latest plaything. Here" I soliio.
qnized. il perfect content. That clover
chain fills ell the needs Of her small
soul, and there is at present nothing
she could possibly find more satisfy
ing" Az this psychological momenf
perfect picture of little girl seated
beside her Mamma IN q smart dog-
cart, 6glpp6Issss aa. The grille with
me gazed upon her more ssYored Sis
ter, and all the contentnent ned
from her dimpled face. 'Oh, ahls
she cried, s'look, Ella, she have 8
bu,ful buggy, and q bu'ful hat vii
flowers on 1t, and a Teddy bear, aud
oh, amt got muffin like vat to play
wifi" MEANWHILE, the little maid who
was the subject of this enytons outburss
had risen excitedly to her feet and was
gazing with round-eyed anazernent
and longing at the clover chain which
dsngled from the hstless hands Of the
little girl on the pavement. Look.
Mamma, she vailed ia fearful tree
BILE. .sYat little girl have 3 bu,fali
clover chain an its orful long an &
hasn't got one. Oh, Mamna, I wish
Itou1d have long clover chain like VS.
little girlln The eyes of the mother and
my own met and crossed in glance
OF understanding. We both smiled.
It was Just as If we had spoken, and
as the cart passed on I knew that the
little scene which had happened in q
! feeting moment between two babies
had impressed us gr0wn-up twain Ia
/ the same strange way and brought ~
b little nearer to the heart Of the grsHs
/ truth.
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