The Washington herald., 1915-09-11
LIVE TODAY.
By oR1soN SWEET MARpEN,

This Is not only a new day. but it Is a
! new beginning. Nature gives US three
hundred and siXty-five new chances ev-
cry year. If We botch today. if We make
all sorts of slips and blunders, If we
waste the hours, if We make mistakes
! she gives us a new chance tomorro "
morning. And before she launches us
on the new day. she prepares US to take
advantage of the fresh opportunities,
the new chance it holds by putting US
under the sweet anesthetic Of sleep, thus
helping us to erase from our mental gall
lery the pictures of the previous days
mistakes, which caused us regret and
suffering. She not only gives US a clean
mental slate. but also a clean bill of
health. She makes US all over, renews
and reburnishes every cell in the body,
gives US new courage, new hope. new en-
thusiasm. a refreshened renewed body
in the place of a weary, discouraged one.
In short she gives us a new chance at
the life game under new conditions.
What a wonderful privilege it is to get
this fresh start every twenty-four hours
to have these rest cures. these sleeping
oases, refreshment stations where every
night we can get rid Of the dust, the
wear and tear of the days toll. and start
on the next stage of our journey re-
freshed, reheartened and strengthened
We don't have to wait for our New
Years resolution in order to make a
fresh start. We don't have to wait for
a month or a fortnight or a week for a
chance to rest to repair our human ma
chimes, to renew our strength and our
courage. to brace ourselves up for a new
opportunity. This is daily miracle in
our lives
The trouble with most of US is that
we ask too much. We look forward too
far. or We look backward. We don't un-
derstand our privileges and avail our
selves Of them as they are given u.s. Time
is so precious that it is dealt to US only
a moment at a time. We cannot live
again a second that has Just passed, nor
can We live in the second that Is to come.
Just while the pendulum Is swinging
through the present instant-this is the
only time we are sure of. the only time
in which to do our thinking. our work
ing. Why should we not cling to this
moment until We have extracted from 1t
all its possibilities, instead of being in
different to it, in dreaming of the future
or regretting the past?
The great majority Of people who have
reached middle age have not found life
anything like what they expected. The
mirage Of youth. they will tell you, led
them on only to disappotnt their hopes.
I believe their disappointment is largely
due to the fact that they never learned
the art Of enjoying and getting the most
out of each day az they went along. It
is Just as much our duty to get joy out
Of the day a. It 10 to get work. just as
much our duty to be happy as to be efii-
cient. In fact. we cannot DO really en-
cient without being happy. Happiness
means efficiency. mental and moral ha,-
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harmony means efficiency.
No matter what our condition, the new
day holds out its privileges and opportu-
mites to all. No one u ricner In timc
than another. 30 far ~ that IL con-
cerned, the millionaire has no advantage
over the day laporef.
Each morning king and peasant. poor