Connecticut western news., 1910-06-09
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BY w. Fl. SPEAR.

The world IS wide and sorrow and joy touch elbows. There are sadden hearts; worthy ones longing for kind word, helpful act,an encouraging smile: Don't shut within your heart all the milk of human kindness. Look out upon life and see how many countless ones are in need of human sympatha and kindly aid.
 You need not be a millionaire to do deeds that will bring joy to human hearts. 1t costs little to be kind and often kind word cheers some lonely heart and does more good than would the wealth of the Indies.
 Don't carry through life sour face, as though you had come from diet of lemons. Grouchiness may give you rep. utation for scoentricity but it never wins friends. Why impose upon other lives your dissatisfied bitterness? Chase away that frown. Speak in cheerful voice. Why enlarge your discontent2 Let the sunshine into those dismal corners you have so long oourtained with cobwebs and you will be surprised at the changes brought in your life.
 The very dreariness which at times comes to all, may be made a rainbow of promise, if you'll let the sunshine in. The world has little use for the grouchy man. and less for a grumpy woman. The scoldinR tongue and the fault.find- ing air may seem to such the acme of superior attainment, but they are not. They are the dismal cobwebs which our- tain the windows of the soul and keep the sunlight from filling the portals of the heart with gladness and with kindly cheer.
 Brush them away They will never improve your life nor bring joy into lives around you. Many a man has been driven to drink by scolding wife, and many a wife has an aching heart through a grouchy, fault.hnding hus- band. If the sunshine of kindness more generally pervaded home life, there would be less business for the divorce courts.
 Don't worry Smile The worry ing man and the fretting woman are cankering their own hearts. and casting discontent over their environment to no earthly purpose. All the worry and frstting of lifetime will not alter con- ditions an iota It simply unnerves you, and makes those around you miserably uncomfortable A similar amount of energy directed toward the prevention of threatening ills. will accomplish more than constant worriment.
 Your life conditions are not half as bad as they might be. Look about you for proof. Have you but half loafY Thousands have none. Are you wear ing last seasons hat, coat or gown Many would rejoice in what you despiss Are you earning small salary? Thous- ands receive none Be glad of present blessings. Make the most of opportunity as it comes your way.
 Many a man longs for the diamond fields of Africa or would dig for gold in the distant Klondike, at whose door arc acres of diamonds and nuggets of gold which, in his blindness, he fails to see.
 Blest is the man of contented mind, who looks out upon life and combats it's problems as they arise thrice blessed that woman whose cheerful face and hopeful air adds fresh courage to her husbands heart and unoonsciously aids his battle of life.
 Don't stick too close to shallow waterl Many a shipwreck could have been avoided by laanching out into the deep. Life's sea is full of opportunities, but none will benefit you unless you let down your net into the deep. In this sea are as good fish as ever were caught. but DO man will get them by sitting idly at his desk with his feet elevated, and long for opportunities to come his way, when he IS too lazy or too indifferent to lower his net for the schools of fish to be had for the taking. #.. ....
 Don't complain that your skies are dark and threatening! and that to pen citrate their mists is a task impossible With stout heart and determined mien do we'll your part, and that cloud itself, which now before thee lies dark in view, shall with beams of light from the inner glory be stricken through, and like meadow mist through Autumn's dawn unrolling thin its thickest folds when about thee drawn let sunlight in. Then of what is to be, and of what is done why queriest thou? The past and the time to be are one and both are NOW.
 TrapeFare Copontata