The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-07-25
Next Week Talks on Home" and It's Influences
and Delights Viii Engage the Efforts
of the Club Members

let cheerfulness abound with industry
! Give us TO go blithely on our business all
, this day Bring US to our resting beds
weary and content and undlshonored. ana
grant us in the end the gift Of sleep-R.
/. Stevenson. EDNA GIOTZBACH.
lol5 Il street northeast
Sir John Lubbock says. Every one
must have felt that a cheerful friend Is
Ike a sunny day, which sheds its bright
ness on all around: and most Of us can.
as we choose. make OF this world either a
palace or a prison.
There Is no doubt some selfish salts
/ faction in yielding to melancholy and
| fancying that we are victims OF fate, in
breeding over grievances. especially II
more or less imaginary. To be bright
| often requires an effort. There IS a GER
tain art IN keeping ourselves happy, and
IN this respect, as in others we require
/ 70 watch over and manage ourselves al
most as II we were somebody else"
ELIZABETH FITZHUGH.
2ns Fifteenth street northwest
AS the sunshine brings out the flowers
and rtpens the fruit OF nature. the sun
! shine Of the soul brings out the flowers
and ripens the fruitage Of lie II IS the
little acts OF kindness. the little court
esies. the disposition TO be accommodate
ing, 10 be helpful, 20 be sympathetic, 20
be unselhsh, 10 be careful not 70 wound
! the feelings. not expose the sore spots 10
DO charitable TO the weaknesses OF others.
! 70 be considerate-these are the little
things which. added up at night. are
found 70 be the secret Of a happy day
when the sun shines It shines every
where" was Rubens' motto. The most
| completely lost Of all days" said Cham
fort. is the one in which we have not
laughed" "Mirth is Gods medicine;
! everybody ought 10 battle in IT," said
oliver Wendell Holmes. Paradise IS here
or nowhere. Happiness is a thing to be
practiced Ike the violin.
In your hearts are the birds and sun
shine,
In your thoughts the brooklets flow
%. S. Marden.
n JANE MOOR.
| 2o50 street northwest
I believe that # as wrong 70 be fool
! ishly optimistic as Il is to be foolishly
pessimistic I believe that It Is my duty
TO look life frankly in the face, and 10
recognize and accept both the sunshine
/ and the shadows. and I believe that II
l do this conscientiously ! shall be able
/ 20 keep sweet tempered and cheerful, for
I ! believe that my pleasures are sweeter
/ because Of my sorrows, just as surely
| and as truly as the evening sunset Is
more radiant because OIL the afternoon
1 thunder shower
| There's never a day so sunny
/ But little cloud appears:
/ There's never life SC happy
But has its time OF tears
/ Yet the sun shines out the brighter
| Whenever the tempest clears.
There's never garden growing
| With roses in every plot;
/ There's never a heart so hardened
/ But has its tender spot:
/ We have only 70 prUne the border
/ To find the fOrget-me-not.
I There's never a sun that rises
I But we know twill set at aight.
/ The tintS that CLEAN In the morning
| At evening are just as bright:
And the hour that Is the sweetest
/ Is between the dark and the light.
/ There's never a dream so happy
/ But the waking makes US sad
/ There's never dream OF sorrow
| But the waking makes US glad:
We shall look some day with wonder
AZ the trouble we have had
MARY T. DURISOE
i2s Kentucky avenue southeast.
! It's easy enough 10 be pleasant
| When life flows along with q song,
| But the one worth while
Is the one with smile
| When everything goes dead wrong
! II you will learn 10 wear your clouds
wrong side out. so that you may see the
silver lining. and always to look for the
/ sunny side. which you may be quite sure
! is within your reach, even though IL be
hidden by dark shadows, you VIII not
| only make your own life pleasanter, but
you VIII help others bear their crosses
with smiling faces. MAE H. SHAW.
II North Carolina avenue.
Where'er in the world It is our lot to
dwell,
In rustic cottage or halls Of pride.
! There's chance. I'm sure for us all 20
secure
A little bit Of the sunny side.
Josephine Pollard.
| T. c. DOWDEN
. street northeast.
I Good humOr is a bright color IN the
web Of life; this clear, blue sky OF the
soul. on which every star OF talent will
shine more clearly, and the sun OF ge-
MUS encounters no vapors in its passage.
II is like the green IN a landscape, har-
monizing In every color. meiowing the
/ light, and softening the hue OF the dark;
I or Ike flute In a full concert Of instru-
ments, sound not az first discovered
/ by the ear, yet filing Up the breaks in
the concord with It's deep melody.
~ fe
which breaks through the gloom OF the
clouds, and glitters for moment.
Cheerfulness means looking on the
bright side Of everything.
I'm JOHNSON
A traveller. toiling on a weary way,
Found in his path a piece OF fragrant
clay.
This seems but common earth" says he
but how
! Delightful!-lt Is full OF sweetness .nowl
Whence Is thy fragrance?" From the
clay there Slows
A voice: Il have been very. near a rose 9"
John James Piatt
Mn L. II. HARTSHORNE.
Webster street,
I've heard It said since I was born
That every rose must have its thorn.
No matte. where It grows.
II may be so: I'll not deny,
But this Is quite as true, say l.
Each thorn must have its rose.
Z. W. JONES.
III street northwest
Life Is not all sunshine. but we must
endeavor 70 bring into the life OF those
around US as much sunshine as possible"
says James S. Sherman. i believe In