Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-02-12
Always Look for the
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any other is the courage of those
CHEEKY soul, who, while they live
through the worst, see the best. From
personal experience with a few OF
these good people, we have reached
the conclusion that they attain their
blessed state of incorrigible optimism
by visualizing all tine good that may
come them out Of their disappoint-
ments seeing 1t actually before them
and denying the evil existence by
refusing to think about IT. One such
optimist, a visiting friend, had told us
of the purchases to be made when
the prospective abundant crop of
wheat should be harvested. Before
she left word came that the crop was
destroyed by rust. Did she worry? (?
Not a bit of it. She folded her let
ter, sat soberly thinking for min
ute, and then she laughed. well, 2
she said, there is lots OF fun in being
poor, and having to plan what you
can do to make ends meet If we
had the money for the wheat, would
have spent it as carefully as could,
and then the fun would be over AS
1t is. I'm going to have a good time
cutting down Johns worn coat for
Sammy, turning Lucy's faded dress
for NeEie and planning how to get
hats for two girls and a woman out
of a dollar bill. guess they Il have
to continue calling me the dye We
man" until the neSs .aa.aat crop lis
harvested We are rich anyway sae-
cording to Cicero, who said, Economy
is of itself great revenue and I'm
sure the training our children get in
economy when the crops fail lis "a
training we wouldn't have the cour-
age to give them If necessity didn't
demand it, and will be worth to them
in the future more than the money
would be worth to us now
Another optimist, a frail lady who
suffered from the cold winters, raid:
Il don't think could live through
the winter if / didn't see the spring
under the snow; if / could not bring
before me the flowers and birds and
sunlight that are to come"
1t takes a lovely spirit to, look at
bare brannhes and clothe them with
leaves and blossoms; to look at hard
frozen clods and banks of snow and
see green grass and the shadows OF
trees, and flower dotted lawns. ii
takes a soul filled with sweetness to
persistently think lovely Thoughts and
picture the happiness and good that
is to come instead of the discpmforts
and evils that are; but the hope and
belief of such people in good Things
TO come acts as "a magnet to attract
good Things to them. Because they
10 not waste their energy and vital
ty in worry over present evils, they
nave the strength to overcome, and
oMt of apparent evil to bring good.
To have the gift of Yisualizing the
hipgs we long for is one of the great
blessings to be desired.
Take life too seriously, and what
$ it worth, J. asks Goethe. If the
morning wake US to no new joys, il
he evening bring us not the hope of /
lew pleasures, is it worth while to-
lress and undress. Does the sun
hine on me today that may reflect
p yesterday Those people who go
through life cheeri1y in fair weather
T foul, who keep a mental picture
efore them Of the good times that
re coming, and squeeze every par-
icie OF sweetness ont Of the time
hat is, have ian everyday greatness
eyond that which is won in bsttle1
chanted in cathedral. Wailace's i
armer vs.
NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN.