Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-06

teal man or woman who reads this You
may say very honestly that you hate
rhymes. But you may be a poet with
out knowing Il. A poet Is one who sees
the beauty in common place things, and
translates them into a fine glow OF ap-
probation OF that beeuty
| II your eyes filled while you watched
mothers faded eyes follow the son,
taking train that day TO the city to seek
his fortune in that maelstrom where OPP
portunities and temptations whiri past In
equal numbers and with the same diz-
zying rapidlty. II you saw the beauty
~ hcr self forgetfulness In giving the
hoy his chance even though she had u
premonition that she would never see
him again. you are poet for you have
seen tho beauty in one Of the common
places Of life. Try TO find the beauty
IN every ~ect Of life. II il there Seek
II and no make life more beautiful.
Make life more beautiful for your sou
by placing an illuminated adage above
HIS desk. For your office boy by plac-
ing print OF a good picture where his
too often rowing eyes will fan upon It.
Not ono OF the traverseries from tho
comic sections. Not a pair Of American
athletes pummelling each other within
q scrap OF an inch OF their lives. Place
somewhere near his snub and freciSled
nose little reproduction OF marine
view. The ship with full sail on a smooth
sea will feed his sense of beauty and
stimulate his Imagination in right direc.
tioins.
When all employers have grasped the
truth that men and women work best
when they are happy and that they ara
happier when they are within clean, fair
SURROUNDINGS, employers will Danish dust
and CRIME and will place their workers
beside windows from which they can
glimpse field or mountain. river or sca,
or the far blue sky. Or. II these essen
tails are denied there may be cheap bu5
good prints or notices pointing tine way
10 some Of the beauty OF life. Convince
a commander OF a working army Of this
truth and no will spend hundreds OF
thousands 20 mako the surroundings "
his workn,on inspiring and he will be lin
pocket by the experiment.
4 word OF appreciation can mako tho
day glow with beauty. Tell a man OF
work well done. Tell a girl that the sun
and fresh air have made her M fresh
and wholesome az daisy and you will
not only have made beautiful her day.
but you will have encouraged her Go ccn-
tinue the sun aud air baths that will
make OF her good, a sweet natured and
a vigorous woman.
Appreciate that word of appreciation
that IL spoken TO you about your own
efforts. but don't expect It. This is a
busy world and the Dusty folk in It may
let an opportunity to speak such word
pass. Strike the keynote OF your own
day and live up TO that note. You have
known a musician who asked You TO name
a chord for him. and, when ytu said,
for instancc "C-F-G" he built upon, en-
troidered, endlessly adorned the motif
with his art and his fancy. So strike
the note OF your day by some fine
thought
He was a benetactor TO humanity who
invented the calepdars where in a stimu-
lAting thought OF some Amounted thinker
IL revealed TO y1u every day by tearing
off a leaf II II quite safe to take the
pitch Of your day from a key thought
Of Dickens OF Robert Louis Stevenson,
or Sir james Barrie OF Arnold Bennett.
Let the thought run through your day
and color II with its hues redeem its
darkness, benutify II.
You can make your life beautiful.
care not who you are nor what For
! life is ugly or beautiful according TO our
! thought OF Il. You like one person and
dislike another. outwardly they seem
like enough. but within they are differ
ent. The difference is one OF thought.
What really matters is the thought life.