Pocahontas star herald., 1912-05-24

heeP your lace always towards
the sunshine and the shadows will
: iall behind you. Along this path
way OF sunshine sweet flowers are
Oiossoming, if We only stop to pluck
them and smell their fragrance. In
every meadow birds are warbling,
calling to their mates and soaring
= into the blue, if we will only stop
+ long enough to hear them. "Into
J each life some rain must fall" So
into our lives the shadows will
| creep, but let us keep them well In
q the background, always looking for
: that glorious sunshine that lies back
r OF every cloud. Some people will
tell you the worlds all wrong.
5 Those people need to get right
/, with themselves. The trouble is with
). them and not the world. They see
f blue ahead instead of raising their
!. eyes to look only at the heavenly
g blue. The worlds all right, it's a
It joyous old world, full of sunshine
e and laughter and the few shadows
y that cross our lives only serve to
make the sunshine seem brighter.
!. We lind that pesslmistlc spirit in
n people who seem to hug their
O troubles and take pride in their blue
a days, like our old friend, jim, the
pessimist. "Jim Brown says, says
he to me, Life amt what 1t used to
- be; everybody's money mad, things
are going to the bad, politics is
\ shameful now, preachers amt as
good, somehow, as they were when
ar he was young; even gospel hymns
amt sung as they ought to be- SAYS
jim, 'least that's how it seems co
" him Jim hangs round the corner
" store, hasn't worked for months and
" more. From the last job where be
a' hired out to work he soon was fired.
IL Mrs. Jim, though, sews and sews,
81 just to keep her kids 10 clothes. IT..
" bout all sne can do to buy shoes
20 and feed them too, since Jim spends
'e his time in fretting bout how baC
u :, the world is getting"
u Now, don't you see how it is, it,
Jim and not the world that need
- setting right-too many shadow
10 and not enough sunshine, or, il
other words, Jim's either no good
at or the doctor will tell you he il
an suffering from indigestion. Th,
d. same remedy might apply to boil
ps complaints-go good, honest work anC
to plenty of sunshine. The sunshin,
ey of happiness is prize unbough
re and freest, purest in its flow wher
lp it comes unsought. However, al
h? unchanging state of happiness il
is not possible on earth, for the sou
W. must have its midnight hour as wei
en- as its sunlight seasons of joy anG
lie gladness; but happy are the mo
l. ments when sorrow forgets its care,
10 and misery, its misfortunes. There
is is in this world a continual inter
re change of pleasing incidents still
ar keeping their succession of times
is and overtaking each other in their
of several courses.
Of No picture can be all painted of
r. the brightest colors, nor a harmony
Or consorted only of trebles. Shadows
er are need(ul in the expressing of
proportions and the bass is primer
al pal part in perfect music. Our
10 whole life is temperate between
sweet and bitter, light and shadows;
and we must all look for mixture
>. of both. The wise so wish it.
"Into each life some rain must fall {"
and again, "But behind the clouds
is the sun still shining"
Let sunshine show in your own
countenance and bearing. The
y contemplation of your brightness
u will have reflex action upon Others;
for 1t reproduces what it reflects.
!, Ovid calls beauty a favor be-
slowed bV the GODS but no one can