The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-31
THE HOME CIRCLE
AND IT'S INTERESTS
Column Dedicated to Tired
Mothers as They Join
The Home Circle at
Evening Tide.
Today And The New Year.

Fhs best thing you have in this is
Roday. Here it is, a wonderful treas
ura . marvellous jewel It's yours, all
yours. It's in your hands. what are
you going to do with it?
Today is your savior; 1t Is often cru
sified between two thieves Yesterday
aad Tomorrow.
Today you can be happy. not yester-
day nor tomorrow. There Ii no happi-
ness ecept Today's.
Most of our misery IL left over from
Yesterday or borrowed from tomorrow.
Keep Today clean. Make up your mihd
IN enjoy your food. your york. your
DAY, Today anyhow.
Time is not divided into three parts,
pest. present, and future. There - only
enc real time; il is Now.
You can do anything, IL JouH only
"a at it a day at a time
II you're bereaved. betrayed. heart
hroken, why. take a day of. one Gay
will not matter. To-day put away your
fostering thoughts. Today take some
,fmple joys. Today be little happy
- the sunshine. You can do 1t. It's
ne burden of the coming days, weeks
wears. that brushes us. The present Is
always tolerable.
whoever planned this life of ours
I'D well in giving it to us one day at
a time. We don't have to live 1t all
NJ once, thanks be! We've only got
to get through till bedtime.
And at the end of every day We are
hathed in death. In sleep We go back
to our original nothingness. EVERY
AGAIN
Why let life Cypress you? You don't
have to live your life, only da OF II.
Come. let's finish our small tas.. man
fully. It's not long.
Don't let life mass against YOU. At
tack it in detail and you can easily
triumph.
aOh. but / can't help thinking of the
Past And one must plan for the fu-
ture."
To be sure. Only forget not that 1t
ts not the Past that determines the
Present; it is the Present that dterm-
ines the Past. :.
The Past is what we make of 1t. 1t
IN the temper of the Present that quail
.ies it. 1t all depends upon how you
now consider it, whether it bring you
despair or discouragement.
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 re-
morse, weaken you with self contempt.
The poet says we rise by stepping on
cur dead selves. And as for the Future,
the best preparation for it is an I'M
afraid Today.
Whatever hills you have to climb,
whatever bridges you have to cross.
whatever enemies are lying in wait for
YOU. whatever crises are to be met, you
.can be no better equipped for them than
By living this day soundly. cheerfully'
and free from fear.
Apprehensions. premonitions. Wor-
ries. these are the poison gases OF our
foe. the Future.
II you are to die tomorrow. the best
way to be ready is to discharge faith
fully Today's duties. and to enjoy heart
III Today's simple pleasures.
Today is yours. God has given 1t to
you. All your Yesterdays He has TAX
IN 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 OF
light between two darknesses, Just
hit of life between two sleepdeaths.
Today is yours. Use it so that at its
dose you can say:
Il have lived. and loved. Today"
DR.. Frank Crane in Pictorial Review.
The New Year.
A friend stood at the door:
In either tight closed hand
Hiding rich gifts. three hundred and
three score:
waiting to strew them daily Ger the
land.
Zach drop he reads in it. and passes
by:
Even as the sower.
IL cannot be made fruitful till it die.
Friend, come thou like friend.
And whether bright thy face.
Or dim with clouds We cannot compre-
bend,