The Washington times., 1918-10-31
The Value of Little Things
Every Day Is Little Life; and Our Whole Life Is
Made Up of Little Things.

sroy or mar great reputatons-how we cherish in
childhood certain vacations, ideas and dreams and how
trivial incident will change the destiny of lives
Two drops of rain, falling side by side separated
few inches by a gentle breeze. Striking opposite
sides of the roof of courthouse in Wisconsin, rolled
southwark through the Rock river and the Mississippi to
the Gulf of Mexico while the other entered the Fox river
Green Bay Lake Michigan and finally found its way through
the St. Lawrence river the Gulf of St. Lawrence thou
sands of miles from the destination of the other particle
SArletta's pretty feet glstenng in the brook made
her the mother of William the Conqueror says Palgrave
History of Normandy and England" Had she not thus
fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy Harold
would not have fallen at Hastings Anglo Norman dy
nasty could have arisen, and no British empire"
By gnawing through dike even a rat may drown a
nation.
= The act of moment may cause LIES regret.
trigger may be pulled in instant but the soul is
gone forever.
In Baltimore hospital man lies at the point of
death At the home of her parents the ieless body of
his bride of three days lies in her tiny bedroom surrounded
by her family-her soul never to return.
The whom she had three days before promised
love- honor and obey into her life chance There
thousand ways in which might have occurred
acquaintance accident conventional unconventional
meeting in a ballroom restaurant
Be that chance what it may her life has been lost
the happiness of her family and her husbands life
hangs by thread threatening to break any instant
What brought them together may never be known;
fate marks all destinies and TRIVIAL THINGS
the milestones that guide
Some little weakness, some sefindulgence quick
temper want of decision, LITTLE THINGS, you say
when placed beside great abilities but they wrecked
many career.
A young man once went to India to seek his fortune
but finding opening he went to his ROOM loaded his
pistol put the muzze to his head and pulled the trigger
The cartridge failed to explode He went to the window
point it in another direction and try again. resolved that
the weapon went off he would regard it Providence
that he spared He pulled the trigger and it went off
the first time
Trembling with excitement he resolved to hold his life
sacred to make the most of it. and again cheaper
it. The young became Gen. Robert Give, who, with
but handful of European soldiers secured the East
India Company and afterward to Great Britain great
and rich country with two hundred millions of people.
Henry Ward Beecher within vote of being
elected superintendent of railway If he had had that
one vote America would probably have lost a great
preacher Lincoln after being defeated in Sangamon
county election by three votes went into the grocery bust
His venture proved disastrous and Lincoln gave it
up again entering the political field Had he been
cess in mercantile line he would have been known
outside his town.
Trifes light as air often suggest to the thinking mind
ideas which have revolutonzed the world.
While Thomas Edison singing into the mouthpiece
Of telephone the vibration of his voice caused fine steel
point to pierce his finger held just behind the phone The
photograph is the result of this trivial occurrence
The children of spectacle maker placed two or more
pairs of the spectaces before each other playing and
told their father that distant objects looked larger From
this trife Metius invented the telescope
Bits of glass arranged to children led to the
discovery of the kaleidoscope
Goodyear discovered how to vucanze rubber by for
getting until it became red hot, skillet containing com
pound which he had before considered worthless.
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Watch the trivial things, keep your eyes open, there
is opportunity everywhere that are attuned will
fail to detect the cries of those who need assistance
open hearts will want for worthy objects upon which
to bestow their gifts open hands will lack for noble
work to do Every day live your life though it were
your last day on earth and get full Of all the
lows that there are in store for Won