Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-18
w. C. IT. COLUMN.
WHAT IS WORTH WHILE?

This is q God time to be living. To
be in the onward rush of reform. and
to be part Of the movement, may
we'll be a delight to every earnest
minded woman.
To keep up with the times. it is
! worth while to keep well. It is not
enough to want to be worker: one
must know how to work and how to
rest, how to energize and how to re-
lax. Mrs. Emily Bishop. in that wise
little book entitled "Seventy Years
Young" urges keeping the body
young. and the most effectual means to
this end is, as she we'll says. ITO Gull
tivate two simple habits-habits emin-
emily ethical and altogether personally
attractive = namely, the habit of
health and the habit of cheer and
courage"
am amazed again and again at the
endurance of many of our w. c. T. U.
workers. travelling about, as they do.
without home comforts, without regu-
larity of meals or sleeping hours. GO
ing in all sorts of weather, but keep
ing bravely or, and looking younger
and SUMMER every year. Is it due to
what Mrs. Bishop calls "a habitually
positive cheer-courage outlook" Then
let everyone who wants share in the
work of retaining the world from it's
burdens and its wrongs and its evils,
hasten to buckle on the armor of good
health and good cheer, working and
resting, giving each it's due time and
allowance.
And to good health and good cheer
it is worth while to add good friends.
He that hath friends must show him
self friendly" Whatever the life may
be, there is always the demand for
true friends. We pity the one too busy
to make or to hold friends. No wom-
an can afford to crowd out of her life
this sweet boon which makes the way
blossom with the fragrance of living.
It is comforting to live with those who
love you, and to breathe only the at
mosphere of praise and commentator,
but the loveliest and strongest charac-
tiers develop under the fire of criticism.
and grow in grace by contact with
others. It is worth while to mingle
with others, to learn to live happily
with those we would help. and to grow
in favor with GOO and man.
"It is worth while" to be courteous.
In Calvary Baptist church. Washing
ton. D. c., it is longtime custom for
persons entering the pew first to pass
to the farthest end. that those coming
later may be seated quickly and easily,
without crowding by or delaying the
seating while someone at the end steps
into the aisle. So strong thing il
habit that the members learn to follow
the same rule in street car. Little
acts of courtesy are very contagious
and an unselfsh person will create
such an air of congenial comradeshiE
that everyone within the radius of his
influence will be made cheerier and
better. 1t works we'll for those who
lead, and as we'll for these led. 1t
acts and reacts, and makes the hes,
sort of an atmosphere for home. fol
church life, and for society. To be
courteous is more than to be polite
It is one of the most important of the
worth whiles.''
It is the part of wisdom to be deeply
interested in something outside of self
Let it be monthly or semi-monthly
w. C. T U. meeting. let it be moth
ers' meeting. let it be any association
of true-hearted women working unsel
fishly for a great purpose. There is
nothing under the sun that can accom-.
plish more for the perfection of indi-
vidual character than the close com.
radeship of noble, self-denying, eff
cient women. But Individual perfec'
ton mus. not be the first aim of any
association or club. There must be
first and always the good Of others as
} the supreme aim. Where there is q
strife for the places of prominence
where there is over-sensitiveness te
criticism, and where there is any dis
position to exalt the Individual and te
put in the background the cause, there
is need of new heart and CONVEX
sion to better ideals.
Have you ever tried real, live mothers
meetings as the best solution for club
life? There is no society of womer
, that can equal such company. and il
is marvelously easy to organize an(
keep up one in almost any community
) There are always mothers. Thanh
3 God. they are to be found everywhere
They love to meet together they ART
seeking more light for their many dali,
problems; they are lovable, becaus,
. they have to be so at home, you know
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