The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-07

truest guide, for it is the will power |
and the temperament power of your
stock-in-trade. Make your mind mas
ter of the situation before you give
reign to your imagination. Is other
words, learn your psychic ald musi-
cal technique, keep your heart single !
and WORK!
IF you think you are to be hur1eu
in rose petals, intoxicated with their
warm, hattering odors, you are pre- |
pairing for yourself painful disillu- !
sion. The most satisfying results owe |
their existence to the most uninspired !
routine; and roseate glows come only |
as do peculiarly beautiful sunsets. Just !
as we may not expect the latter every !
evening, 50 we must not look for I'M !
varying artistic citation or triumph -
Emma Eames.
IF you want to be happy, decide to |
L be so and see everything in a hap !
Ply light. 1t is astonishing how many
things become rose colored when thus |
viewed and how many others reveal |
happiness that might have been miss
ed were not one looking for it.
You see almost everything in life |
has two sides, one pleasant and the
other unpleasant. 1t is quite bad
enough that the unpleasantness should |
exist without increasing by dwelling
upon it, and the thing to do is prompt
ly to forgot the bad side and try toI
discover the good. 1t isn't easy of
course, but this is precisely where
character comes in, and a girl Who'll
takes hold of the world always by its
good handle, finding compensation in
all things, is the one who gets the
most and is the happiest
1t is an encouraging fact that there
is no experience Of life however sad
dening or hard that does not have ItS
compensation if one will take the trod-
BILE to look, or is willing to learn from
it. All Of us know people who have
grown bitter by sorrow or misfortune.
They are those who have refused to
get the good that may come from diff
cult conditions, and their own lives
are therefore harder, as they become
complaining, unhappy and unpopular
On the other hand, we know, too, a
few who nave grown sweeter in mis-
fortune.
instead of thinllig, as 90 the unhap-
py, of what they have lost, they think
Pal -
lully learn the hard lessons that have
come. There always is something to
be grateful for, if one wishes to think
so, and to do it means a great help to-
ward gaining happiness. A girl who
is poor had much in her friends or in
being well and able to go about. 1t Is
hard to work sometimes, and one VINO
must do so may make herself misera-
BILE if she likes to contrast her own
life with that of girl Of leisure and
wealth But she won't be miserable If
she stops to think how fortunate she
is to have work when hundreds of
others who are in dire need cannot get
it. This is just an instance Of the two
sides of a thing you see, and the han
die that one may take hold Of each
day.
One of them will make you happy
and the others will make you com
planning and envious, putting poison
into every moment. 1t is so much bet
, ter to be happy than miserable, and il
is quite within the reach of every girl
1t really depends upon herself wheth.
, er she will look on the good side OF
the bad
There is never day that does no
have in it something nice or amusing
just as there will probably be veXa
ton or disappointments. TO dwell OF
the latter is to make ones self al
around wretched, while to think of the
former is to be cheerful, happy ant
, amusing to others.
Unselfshness is another road t
, happiness; not the kind of unselfish
- ness that gives away something on,
no longer cares for or has plenty of
and requires no effort to part from
but the unselfshness that thinks o
others rather than Of ones self There
) is an immense amount of pleasure il
4 having pleased some one else, hayin
q done something that they wished, an
, it comes from the feeling Of HAVING
e helped however little.
f One gets a great deal more in watch
% ing the satisfaction Of another whe
v it is due to ones own efforts than il
d having or doing something that woul,
20 have pleased only ones self.
e Happiness, as a matter of fact, is
thing that lies within us all, only al
P. do not cultivate and develop it. 1t i
: not brought necessarily by grea
Il things nor many of them, but it come
e always with a cheerful and contente
Z spirit that looks for the brightness q
life and the good in it, being Thankful
T. for what one has and adapting one
G self to doing without the impossible
II Best of all, it grows bigger and deepe
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