The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-12

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So was it when my life began,
So is 1t now 1 am d man,
So may it be when 1 grow old,
Or let me die.
Wordsworth.
It seems to me that very few peo-
pie that 1 know get all the happiness
they ought out of the things that ap-
peal to the senses.
1 wish there could be a course in
the public schools to teach children
to use their eyes and ears to be happy
with.
That does not mean that I do not
realize how much greater the mental
things-such as frienship and work
are.
1 do, to the full.
1 have always liked portraits bet
ter than landscapes.
People are much more to me IMAM
places.
To be with congenial friends any
where at all is infinitely more happ1-
ness to me than to be in some very
beautiful place without them.
But because these are the greatest
things in life is not any reason why
one should fail to get all the happl-
ness possible out of the lesser things
such as beautiful sights and SOUNDS;
When you see or hear beautl1ui
thing you ought to experience dcluai
pleasure. Do you?
When you see the sun go down IN
! a fame of crimson and flare of gold,
do YOU feel an actual thrill of pleas
ure? 49,
| 1ectuaIIv interested but Unconditional
wav. .'That is a beautiful sunset?
If you do you ought to set ABOUT
making yourself more sensuous,
No. that's not absurd and lmpos-
sible. s
If you're past the plastic age it may
| indeed take good while, but you
can do something if you STICK TO II.
| Every time you see or. hear beau
tiful thing stop and look at OF hsten
to it.
Let it soak fn.Jo
Ry-and-by that coat of Indifference
win get softened and beautlIui thlhsS
| will begin to give you actual pleasu.re.
| Don't say you aren't IN postum
to see beautiful things. Everyone Is.
of course the heart of nature is
| the hest place for beauty, but not ny
any means the only one.
| I have seen sunsets across CITY roofs
that We're unspeakably beautiful. Be
sides. beauty doesn't need TO De III
something big like suhse.. 80, !,
The CLEAN of wonderful opal III
! ;aWeier's window the luster OF
n;eeon,s neck as he f1utters on your
siII the perfect pink rose IN It's VASE :
| at the florist 's-these are all plts oi
| hea11ty that Will lnTlli you IL 49, "
let them. ,o .oye a
Alice Freeman Palmer once gane q
REGIME for happiness to some niue
slnm children, one ingredlent OF
which was. "See something peautiiu III
| every day" 1,o., on
Of the children described her expe-
Fences in following the recipe.
lone day" the child said motner
vent out and 1 had to stay IN all DAY
and take care of the baby l3! 80 SO sea
cnuldn't go down to the park TO see
the flowers the way I usually 90 anu
nv wasn't I dreadful afraid L was go
..And then, then. all of sudden
4 soma sunshine came in the windo"
snd SAW the baby's hair
"saw the baby's hair?' echoes MISS
Palmer in wonder .;e,,1 = x,,as ;,
ives. saw how beautiful II was,
axnlained the child tugglng the IN,
evitable baby into the sunshine, anu
SIRE enough, its hair was a beautitul
Beautiful things, you see, are every
| where. oo,obil.
tiles of happiness, teach yoursel1 u
see and hear them and to love to see
land hear them.