The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-06-23


ally observed and it is almost the
same as the Golden Rule in phrase
ology except that a word is left out
and one or two are changed. Here
it is: Do others all the time insofar
as they would do you." However, if
the Golden Rule, viz, Do unto
others as you would they should do
unto you" was universally observed
and practised. there would be no need
of information which is making slow
progress through a sea of difficulties,
corruption and vice. The world
would become an Utopia. Yet even
in the midst of this sea of immoral
chaos, there are some fair islands Of
virtue, chasteness, purity, benevol-
ence, sympathy and love, which are
the beacon lights, the rising suns of
fairer and more moral time when
true happiness shall reign supreme.
Education is doing much toward
reformation, but in order that the
reward of our ugelesmay be crown
ed with happiness, we must com
mence at home, in the nurseries and
make moral education compulsory.
1t is the grave lack of moral educa-
ton that is making the world SO
worldly, that has caused the miscon-
ception of happiness as is evidenced
by discontentment, money worship
and prodigality.
Happiness is not pleasure seeking,
moneymaking, nor even ngil d e d
thrones. Luxurious Surroundings,
high living, globe trotting, nearly al
ways end in any way but happiness.
One can be perfectly happy, can have
true happiness in the humblest cir
cumstance if one is simply true to
ones self and by being true to ones
self, is by living in harmony with the
higher laws of being.
This world has many things which
are for our comfort and happiness if
we only know where to find them or
how to use them But we shall ever
be cropping for happiness and ever
not have it if wode not awaken to
the realization that to be happy, to
make others happy, is to live as we
OUGHT to live-burying and forget
ting all malice, hatred, selfshness, in
dolence, shiftlessness, dishonesty and
suspicion. Hundreds of people might
live happier lives and in so doing
make hundreds of others happy, if
they only realized that happiness,
that is true and genuine happiness, is
not selfish selfinterest and a careless
disregard for the interest and vel
fare of others, nor the gratifying
and satiating of your appetites, mol
glutinous avarice and prodigality and
debauchery, in other words not in.
dividualism, but fraternity.
Let us illustrate what genuine hap
piness is and what some people thinl
happiness is, by drawing the follow
ing pictures:
Mr.. Blank is a business man living
in a respectable, yet not magnificent
home. He has a wife and two o
three children. His income is mod
crate, yet ample for his owl
and his ia m ly's needs. He i
temperate, keeps regular and respect
!, able hours, is given credit by th
, tradesmen with whom he deals, not be
cause he has wealth, because his yer,
appearance signifies a strong char
. acter. He has kind word for chill
dren he may meet and loves animal
r and flowers. lie is scrupulousl,
| clean and tidy at all times. Hi
clerks check their noisy and profan
conversation when he appears at hi
| office. He is not a street car hog
His tastes are no t fastidiOus, bu
: simple and wholesome. He loves hi
g family and home next to- God ant
f takes supreme interest in his chill
E dren's welfare His leaving the hous
each morning causes big gap, a
l fappreciable degree Of longing TO
| his return in the evening. His re
4 turn at evening is the happiest tim
e of the day for bis wife and children
: They run to meet him at the gate
: offer to carry his bag or umbrella O
e any parcel he may be carrying an
e are all eager to hear from him wha
he may have to. tell them, the chi
f dren especially. His servants tip
i toe noiselessly in the house and al
d tend to his wants most willingly,
is would seem. His pet dog runs
+ meet him and barks and leaps fo
:, joy and does its best to shake its ia
e off. Even the cat news and rut
e against his legs.
: Then again, Mr. r.1Sport is anothe