The Washington herald., 1910-06-12

freshed when we again take DIP the bur
dens of existence. There is nothing like
the country, with the trees and the birds
and the grass, 10 instill one with opti-
mistic thoughts. We shall probably make
very good optimists out of the children
we send 10 the summer camps.
/ wish to repeat what I said about
sending money In letters. Do not send
currency through the mails; use post
Office order or check, or even stamps
are better. ! cannot be responsible for
money sent without proper precautions
10 insure its safe receipt.
I want 10 keep working right along on
this fund and will receive contributions
at all times. Each Sunday there should
be material increase in the fund. but l
win again announce that there is no
| limit whatever TO the size OF the contri-
buttons, No amount is too small TO be
acceptable. and I shall deem It a privi-
| lege and pleasure TO receive whatsoever
you have 10 offer. I would like all the
members TO be represented in this coliec-
ton. but If that is impossible there will
be no reason for you to give up your
membership. Contributions TO the fresh
air fund are entirely voluntary.
Laughter" IS 10 be the subject for
next Sunday. and we ought to have an
excellent page. Let me hear from you all
on this jovial topic.
The following are the weeks prize
winning selections:
less of self and more Of Thee" is the
road 10 the portals of content, and the
/ Golden Rule is the key which unlocks
them Ella Wheeler Wilcox says, lone
Of the most difficult things In life IS 20
discover the dividing line between Off
! ciousness and helpfulness. between in
reference and championship. but 1
| think a timely applying Of the Golden
Rule would help even this delicate ques-
ton; nay. solve H.
/ Who fails to strike when q mans as
sailed
! For fear Of selfish pain OF loss;
/ Who weakly covers when right is nailed
/ Upon the proud worlds heavy cross;
/ Who fails to speak the splendid word
OF bold defiance 20 a lie;
/ Whose voice for truth Is family heard
/ When party passions mount on high
/ That mans a coward, and no deeds
/ OF valor done on fields Of strife
/ Can prove his courage.
Hattie Tying Griswofd,
Mrs. H. B. HOLLIFTELD.
I sOl Hammond Our.
Do unto others-ail the world has read
/ Do good and blessings rain upon your
head;
The act reacts. and two are blessed IN
While promise all the heavens over
spread.
The world is one in heart and thought
and mind:
! The tie OF brother runs through all man.
kind.
And ne who treats his neighbor other
than
Himself to a great moral truth Is blind.
Blind TO the love that holds US all IN one:
You cannot harm a single mothers son
Without that harm reacting on your
And in the END you'n ina His will is
done.
How great the truth. and yet how simple,
too;
How grand the logic. but how plain the
view;
You cannot 'scape the blessing If you
would
When doing as you'd have them do to
you.
SO Taylor street
only a word Of sympathy spoken
| To hearts oVeTburdened with care
Only the clasp of the hand as a token
That we their trouble would share;
Only a pause TO render assistance
To those overcome by the way
These are the deeds that ennoble exist
encs
And turn the worlds darkness to day
MARIE SWEENEY.
81 street northwest.
I believe in myself am convinced
without any argument, that my purposes
are true. my aims in the right direction
and my mistakes those Of the head
rather than of the heart. Nearly every
human being has equally as charitable
an opinion of himself If I follow the
Golden Rule shall search for the good
I'm others as I do in myself-a search
which never fails.
Now, optimism Is finding the good
things in life, and so in rounding cut our
little equation we conclude very easily
that the Golden Rule is the rule by
which TO solve ali the opttmist's prob
lens. MARY F. DURIsoE.
48 Kentl.ky avenue southeast.
II you work upon marble. It win per-
ish: if we work upon brass, time will
efface It; If we rear temples, they will
crumble 10 dust, but If we work upon
immortal minds. If we Undue them with
principles, with the Just fear OF God and
love Of our fellow-men, we engrave or
those tablets something which viii
brighten all eternity.
1l5 street northwest.
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see,
That mercy TO others show
That mercy show 70 me.-Pope.
ADELAIDE sATTERFTEID.
10 Seventh street northeast
There are those who acquire the habit
Of helping others, of comforting. OF add
ing cheerfulness and strength wherever
they go. To those who thus give much
is given in return contentment. trust in
God. confidence IN their fellow-men
sweet hopes and peaceful memories
James f. Clarke. MrS. 7. K. O'BRIEN.
70 S street northwest
At first thought IT seems a waste OF
paper ~ otdtS lildl the Golden Rule
means just what it says, yet compare.
lively few people study moral lessons to-
day by a careful analysis, but by the
popular conception OF their meaning
This is especially true OF the Golden
Rule. and we see professed Christians
cOntenting themselves with inactive. self.
ish Interpretation Of that great lesson
Whatsoever ye would that men should
do TO you. do ye even so to Them does
not mean that we should do TO our neigh.
Dor as he might wish us to do TO him: II
does not mean that we should abstain