Pocahontas star herald., 1912-05-24
SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
Essay By
Miss Mona Shannon

be truly beautiful that is devoid of
that bright sweetness and beauty
of the soul.
''Laugh and the world laughs
w'thyou, weep and you weep alone"
Scatter sunshine as you go. 1t will
make the world better, and you
happier. What the sun is to nature.
what the stars are to night, what
God is to the stricken heart, so are
these sunshiuy people to this world
of ours, for they carry sunshine
with them-a sunshine which means
pity for the poor, sympathy for the
suffering, help for the unfortunate
and benignity towards all. 1t is
the sunshine and not the cloud that
makes the flower. The sky is blue
ten times where it is black once.
You have troubles, that's the rain
in your life. So have others. None
are free from them. Perhaps it is
as well that none should be. That
would be dull sea and the sailor
would never have skill whele there
was nothing to disturb the surface
OF the ocean. Smile, laugh, sing,
and If you can, whistle. There's
nothing so reassuring as the clear,
sweet whistle of happy boy, or
why not girl? once read that a
whlstling boy was never all bad and
l believe 1T, for really bad boy is
never happy enough to whistle. 1t
is human nature to court what is
bright and inviting and shun that
which is dark and gloomy as things
very much to be avoided. Who
would not turn from the contempla.
tion of even scene of infinite
grandeur to gaze upon the counte-
l nance, or listen to the mirth pro-
e voking laughter, of happy child.
: The world is always ready to
, laugh. The readers of current
fiction invariably look for the light
humorous style so prevalent among
s many of our writer's of the day.
d 'Tis SAID that American bumor is
quicker than that of any other
s nationality, yet strange to say it
s lies largely in exaggeration.
s Imagine anybody but an American
n writing ga Yankee at the Court of
y King Arthur" How typically
8 American, bubbling over with fun.
e bright, wholesome and refreshing.
The reader will smile before he has
d finished the first page, and his
g smile broadens and broadens and
u expands still further as he goes on
n until he doesn't know whether he is
n himself or merely spectator
$ among the characters of the book.
il This writer scatters sunshine broad
j cast. He Is friend to humanity.
d He makes you smile and tits said
i "He who makes you laugh is your
s friend" ~
e l would like to say few words
TO my classmates. "Happlness is
| every mans birthrght and he who
5 gives it up lightly to revel in sad
: ness, darkness and gloom, barters
1t tor a mess of pottage." The
| world is shadowed or frightened by
your own heart, rather than by
anything in itself Our Joy makes
the cloudiest day glad and our
griefs find night in the s, ,a.
sky.
We are all about to start out on
our life's journey-on different
paths, tits true but on this iour.
ney may we pass quickly through
the land of shadows, and in Gods
good time come safely and without
harm into the land of sunshine,
where the sunshine will beam down
upon US and the rain fall so lightly
that we'll never even need an um.
brella. We usually get what we
are looking for, so look only for sun.
shine and God will take care of the
shadows.