The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-12

| There" said the little lady who is
always doing original things as she
rolled up the darned stocking with the
whole one in the lmmenorable fashion
Of all housewives, and tossed it into
the mended pile. There, now. 1 can
cross that off my list"
What list?' I inquired.
Oh, didn't you ever see my list"
she laughed. We'll, almost every
morning I make out a little list of the
things I have to do and then as I get
| them down I check them off, and YOU
don't know how it helps.
Here" she brought out a folded
paper from under the clock. Here's
put down the routine things like
dishes and BEDS
The list read:
| Darn the stockings.
Make a batch of cookies.
Mend Fred's trousers
Put Jeanette's coat in the chest.
Clean the silver.
| Brush up the living room and dining
room.
Finish embroidering table cover.
-Four of the seven items were check
ed off
Everyone laughs at me-" defended
the lady who is always doing original
Things, evidently suspecting a
twinkle in my eye, "and say they
should think I'd rather have the time
to DO the things instead of writing
them down, but truly IL helps a lot
In the first place, it keeps me from
forgetting the most important thing
have to do the way I used to.
And in the second place, it takes
the load of remembering off my mind
Really. I used to be always thinking
| in the back of my head, Now, what
was going to do next p Now sim
ply attend to what I'm doing, and then
when get it done I look at my list.
and then 1 get such a satisfaction
out of checking things off wher they're
done It's like the way my mother
used to do when I was going to have
some pleasure that it seemed to me 1
couldn't wait for. Shed Gu. me out a
string of paper dolls, one for each day
before THE day, and I would tear one
off each night and it helped so much"
If there really was a twinkle on my
| eye L think 1t had vanished before the
end of the lady's plea for her quaint
| little custom
Some great person has said some
thing to the effect that the wise folks
in this world are the folks who refuse
were game and die still happy child
rem.
Don't you think he would have low
ed the lady who is always doing orig
inal things, and her quaint little list?
Take heed of thy friends. Nothing
doth countervail a faithful friend and
his excellency is invaluable. Prov
erbs.
Make friends.
Wherever you go, whatever you are
doing, don't neglect to make all the
friends you possibly can.
If I were asked to give a young man
or woman starting out N the world
just one piece of advice as to how to
be successful. I think it would be that
Say to yourself that you will try to
make every man and woman you meet
your friend. OF course 1 don't mean
make them feel friendly towards YOU.
Never mind how humble or how I'M
interesting or how cross grained they
may be. Never mind how unlikely it
seems that you will never meet them
again.
The lion of Aesop fame never ex-
pected to meet the mouse again, and
most certainly didn't think that tiny
creature could ever be of service to his
royal highness. and yet he took the
pains to do the mouse a favor and
make a friend of him and all the
world now knows how-"Some time
after the lion was caught in q net laid
by some hunters; and unable to free
himself, made the forest resound with
his roars. The Mouse whose life had
been spared came, and with his little
sharp teeth gnaWed the -opes asunder
and set the Lion free
A big business man who has made
q really tremendous international sue
cess from very small beginnings, said
to me the other day: ''I think I owe
my mother continually impressed upon