The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-06-10
Flashlights

BY Beau Esprita

Thinking Back
Yesterday is gone Yorrick dead. He gave hope;
disappointment reazaon pleasure; good goods and bad
with in preponderance the other The pain OF
yesterday still tnges heartstrngs while they thrill
in memory of yesterdays merrment But these things
DONE The travail of day is perpetuay US high
tened in intensity ued to security by the experience OF the
fading yesterdays They fading They passed. They
have left wounds surely they have left balm for wounds
yet to be received day breaks should be goal
is guide; for cannot 60 back must 10
think back to departed pleasures protless 1t acts
tant destroying the pleasures of today and menacng the
pleasures of the days To think back to passed pains
than proess is foolish We bore them when they
upon why return to take them again. why cumber
possibilities of today and of tomorrow with the dead timber
of yesterday? Each day and should teach esson
but if too long the lessons OF our yesterdays we
may fail grasp the lesson of today. Do think back
LET the dead past bury its dead" Think in the present If
it profit nothing then think for the futures think ahead What
tomorrow hold for cannot know yet is strangely
true that each the for the come
Mill said To-day is but the threshold of tomorrow We
face that threshod backward toward the things
that done and be undone and the ahead
may open and no forward toward the things that
do ready alert the possibilities unfolding before
1t is not wise to yesterday. But remembering
make it part of today by applying the lesson taught
Nor it wise to tomorrow Rather, think of
it continuance and elimination of today and by todays
actions make for the best that today holds When Shake
said There's divinity that shapes ends rough
hew them how will he expressed but half truth We
cannot make destiny to suit idea but
work with the materials vouchsaed plumb their utter
most To do less to the metal that oureve
to stand in impoten contemplation of the roughhewn works of
yesterday but adds their fauness further neglect
days potentay We the lords of destiny usng
the term in its true not meaning masters but guides
drecors and rewards and punshments melted the
just and the unjust alike justly Few of to face this
by dwelling nonessena things that have been rather than
things that Specifically this appears the line of least
sance reality it vigor and vitality than
suarey facing the facts of today for it beget procrasnaon
encourages friction wastes wrecks destroys The shed
split milk would wash Bezebub clear of sin if localized
The time consumed in useless regrets valued at ten cents
hour would total beside which the expenditures
of all Europe would be dwarfed Yorrck dead Yesterday
gone Decent burial should be his. Memory vtazed in
action today the total of yesterdays worth Let
default todays obligations by meeting them with the obsolete
coin of yesterdays There saving that Yester
days pleasures uccOred for today Yesterdays bore
yesterday and done with Bear that in mind. We
cannot pluck flower from yesterdays garden cannot
eradicate weed But today here; will
And tomorrow to Do not forget that Think for
ward, not back
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