The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-12-30
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
TO-DAY AND THE NEW YEAR

Today. Here it Is, wonderful treas
ure, a marvellous jewel. It's yours, all
yours. It's in your hands. What are
you going to do with it?
Today is your savior; it is often cru
CITED between two thieves. Yesterday
and Tomorrow.
Today you can be happy, not yester-
day nor tomorrow. There isno happi-
ness except Today's.
Most OF our misery is left over from
yesterday or borrowed from tomorrow
Keep Today clean. Make up your mind
to enjoy your food, your work, your
play, today anyhow.
Time is not divided into three parts,
past, present, and future. There is
only one real time; it is Now.
You can do anything, If you'll only
go at 1t a day at a time.
If you're bereaved. betrayed, heart
broken, why, take a day off. One day
will not matter. Today put away your
fostering thoughts. Today take some
simple joys. Today be little happy
in The sunshine. You can do it. It's
the burden of the coming days, weeks,
years, that brushes us. The present is
always tolerable.
Whoever planned this life of ours did
we'll in giving it to rs one day at a
time. We don't have tc live it all at
once, thanks be- We've only got to
get through till bedtime.
And at the end OF every day we are
bathed in death. In sleep we So back
to our original nothingness. Every
morning we are born again.
Why let life Cypress you? You
don't have to live your life, only day
of it. Come let's finish our small task
mantully. It's not long.
Don't let life mass against you. At
tack it in detail and you can easily tri-
umph.
sob, but can help thinking of the
Past. And one must plan for the flu
ture."
To be sure. Only forget not that it
is not the Past that determines the
Present; 1t is the present that deter
mines the Past.
The past is what we make of it. 1t
is the temper of the Present that quail
ihes it. 1t all depends upon how you
now consider it. whether it bring you
despair or encouragement.
Suck out its wisdom, keep its lessons
utilize its experience, make of all those
things elements of present power. But
forget its septic qualities. Don't let
the Past unman you, benumb you with
remorse, weaken you. with self-con-
tempt.
The poet says we rise by stepping on
our dead selves. And as for the Flu
ture, the best preparation for it is an
unafraid Today.
Whatever hills you have to climb
whatever bridges you have to cross
whatever enemies are lying in wal
for you, whatever crises are to be met
you can be no better equipped for them
than by living this day, soundly cheer
fully, and free fro IN fear.
Approximations, promonitlons, wor-
ries, these are the poison gases - oul
oe, the Future.
II you are to die tomorrow, the best
way TO be ready is to discharge faith
fully Today's duties, and ~ enjoy heart
lily Today's simple pleasures.
Today is yours. God has given it to
you. All your Yesterdays He has TAX
en- back. All your Tomorrows are still
in His hands.
Today is yours. Take its pleasures
and be glad. Take its pains and play
the man.
Today is yours, just little strip o.
light between two darknesses, just q
bit of life between two sleep.deaths.
Today is yours. Use it SO that at its
close you can say;
81 have lived, and loved, Today
DR.. Frank Crane in Pictorial Re
view.