Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-10

Dl0 you ever stop 10 Cnlnk That II
was one thing to talk about people and
another thing to have people talk about
you? If those of US who use our
neighbors would stop and reflect about
the matter and know the great evil
that comes from too much talk and
tattling, we are sure we would call a
halt and gossip no more forever.
The year of 1910 has SO Saturdays
for work and only 50 Sundays for
counting, remarks an editor who seems
to be very much worried over the fact.
But then there is consolation in the
fact that there are So pay days and a
man needs them all in this era of high
prices.
An exchange asking, "What has be-
come of the man who used to light his
| pipe with a coal from the cook stove?"
has been answered by the Columbia
Herald as follows: cts easy enough.
The old man has passed over the river
at the age of IS; his son is putting a
l0-cent cigar, and the grandson rolls
his own cigarettes and lights them
with popping match-but he'll never
see IS.
| | have never known a man Of rank in
the world of attainment who was not
glad that he was reared in the country,
and l have known many who regretted
that they had not had that benefit. The
country is the growing place for life's
chief growing time, childhood 1t is
the place where life strikes deep root.
The child whose home is in the country
grows into the habit of drawing lessons
from nature and in the crisis of his life
he harks back to those habits.
Confronted with a big problem, the
lesson he learned from nature returns
to help him He learns the value of
waiting. The man grown from the
city child is neurotic, impulsive, liable
to obey the crazy demands of disordered
nerves. Country breeding begets the
contemplative habit and the decision
that comes of reflection.
In the big moments of his life, wheI
the scales are well balanced, the man
who was bred in the country rarely dis
turbs the scales by an unsteady, inn
patient hand. Ada Patterson in the
Los Angeles Examiner.
There are shadows in this life for us
all and we cannot escape them. Some
times they are cruelty dark and very
bewildering, so that even the wisest of
US can scarcely understand why they
must come our way. Nor are they al
ways short-lived, or as we say, but
passing shadow" appearing for little
while and then vanishing away. They
may come ever 50 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of grief, shadows of disappointment,
heart sorrow and suffering, but they
do not so speedily depart. Often we
have to get used to them as best we
can, knowing that for all earth's child
rem, as there have been in the past so
may there be in the future, for each
one of US, many glad happenings"
And now perhaps some one will be
saying, how about the happenings that
are not glad, indeed no! They are
many of them, fairly heart-rending
sudden calamities that very nearly
crush the life out of -, and oh, so fire.
quent, at all seasons, mi all places. Well,
they have to be endured with patience,
and sometimes we find they have not
been altogether Improbable. Anyway,
| il is sweet to know there is a certain
class of people in our world to whom
mo evil shall happen" Best of all, we
can belong to this class of people if we
will We, like them, may have the
faith that can help to cheer our poor
aching hearts, when overtaken by most
unfavorable happenings.
The faith that looks upon One in
heaven as an ALLOWING father, ever
| interested in us, ever caring for US,
able and willing to bring US safely
| through all our trials in His own good
time and way, this is the faith we may
have if we will Then what need we
care when days are dark and grief
comes unbidden? Eyes may be tear
dimmed, hearts nearly broken, but
faith in God" can give US strength
to look beyond and above life's cruelest
happenings. F."