Evening star., 1915-06-06
g@r Up!''---@md Send I'm Your Reasons

BY way of example. the Cheer Up"
editor appends herewith a sample list
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]. / am glad / am alive and that
nobody has the power to make me do
any mean thing unless 1 consent to it.
2. 1 am glad I have little money
and no more. 1t is an interesting, not
to say exciting, field of investigation,
that of exploring the number of things
that one can do without money
). l am glad 1 was taught to work
by parents who set me an illustrious
example The greatest shame that can
attach to human nature is not to want
to be of use; the keenest delight is to
roll up the sleeves and dig into hard
work that is obviously useful.
4. l am glad the sky is SO big and
so many kinds of blue and mauve and
gray. On perfectly drab day it is
intoxicating t,ai to think how awful life
with pink spots in it.
8. l am glad I live in Washington
Just as God might have made a better
berry than the strawberry, and He
never did" so Americans might have
made better place to live in than
will
o. l am glad 1 have to ride in the
street cars in Washington. 1t helps
for car every time l am in a hurry
and seldom getting a seat after I have
paid my fare.
7. I am glad to keep house in Wash
1ngton, because there is no servant
problem, here. Housework is more eff
GENTLY organized in Washington than
any place l know outside of Paris
81 am glad 1 do my shopping in
Washington. Merchants save me
great deal by the refined selection of
their goods, and market dealers give
me beautiful, fresh things at lower
prices than l have paid elsewhere. The
most that is lacking is for business
men and housewives to get together on
better system of delivery.
8. l am glad of the friendliness of
kindness everywhere. When tell Mrs
Goldrocks' butler, Thank you" for
glass OF water, he responds. Don't
mention 1t. miss"
10. am glad to have time. It is still
true, as Robert Louis Stevenson OBJ
served, The world is quite full of
number of things" A great trouble
these days is so few people have time.
1t is different in Washington. Street
car conductors will hold a car until an
old lady coming aboard can stop and
post letter, then. as they lift her on,
they say, quite fiercely, step lively
But they don't mean to hurry anybody.
They just talk that way to keep visit
ing New Workers from getting an i'm
preston that Washington is slow That
is almost the best thing about living
in Washington. There is time here
and to spare.
But that makes ten things for which
the writer is glad and grateful, and
he has only just got started. That is
the trick of the Look up and cheer
up" movement. Once you begin think
ing of your blessings. the difficulty is
to stop at naming only ten. You want
to keep right on telling what a lot
of good fortune is yours Happiness
and prosperity result largely from get
ting the mind on the right track
Precisely to that end, adopt the fol-
lowing resolutions:
While looking up. I will not forget
to lend a hand.
When I feel like doing something
noble for humanity. l will sit down
and pay my bills. SO that the grocer
and the butcher may feel noble. too.
I will cultivate the habit of speaking
gently. and 1 will practice on the tele-
phone girl.
Whenever things seem to have
turned turned .e,a out badly; / will say, like
gin on myself. I will make something
of myself
Before l set forth to reform the
world I will go out into the kitchen
and the backyard and see what is the
message of the cook and the trash
man. To stop waste in the household
is one way Of increasing prosperity
in the United States.
I will regard the work under my
hand as revelation OF duty. Just
doing the next thing in order will ad-
vance the millennium as fast as any