Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-12
fHave You Swallowed
fYour Choicest Pearls?f

4 New York doctor took his pretty
wife TO dine at smart restaurant
tie other day.
The pretty wife has a fad for pearls
and every time she GETS a chance She
orders oysters in the hope that She
viii find pearl a real pearia pure,
1awless pearl between bites.
So the doctor bought a beautiful
pearl from perfectly good jeweler--
took ii 10 the restaurant and arrang-
ed with the waiter 10 serve the oyster
with the pearl in one of The shells
The doctors wife ate her oySt ers,
>.rd for The first time in years she
,wallowod them without chewing
them.
She swallowed the pearl. too
And now the doctor doesn't know
whether to tell her about il or not
Poor wOman~--She hunted for the
pearl all her life and the only time
she really had nc-she swallowed it.
How many lines have YOU swallow.
ed your pearl?
I've swallowed mine--a dozen die
ferent ones-a dozen different times.
Why Is il that blessings SO often
come in disguise and why are we so
stubborn that we wont learn to recoc.
i nize them any way?
! I'D cross the continent 10 be Of some
/ use TO the true friend who really cares
b Tor me~and yet the other day. be.
: cause woman have loved for many
! Years did not agree with me about
H matter OF purely vague philosophy,
' came within an ace OF quarrcling
Y with her
/ Ny belief in the honor and the faith
i OF man wouldn't lose it for any.
4 thing in the world I'd rather die than
: I've to believe that MI men are liars
4 and az won n dee iyors,
n YET he {, cr day, bee. Iae poor
& wealline broGe acre. NoV | a
+ most lei my faith in humanity die.
F. The love and trust OF little child
z what can YOU give ne IN exchange
for il?
F Ii will comfort when everything else
i, a misery 1t is a JOY when all the
world is sad. II is the sun shining In
2 The shadiest place-and yesterday |
s.most broke a promise 10 little
trusting child. just because it was
pointment with him
The pearl the beautiful, pcal:s--
how easily we let them slip away
nom us.
Happiness how We all run after
i--in youth in middle agc in in.
s trinity and yet, there dear happinc
stands in tie doorway 0, every hum.
bic heat, holding out her hands 70
us--if we could only see her and
smile back into her kind eyes
The bird in the tree, there what if
he stopped TO worry about HE winter
(, time when the rain comes and all the
sweet blossoms are faded and gone
How is he going to find his Wav .
r through all the miles TO the far coun.
X try where he must 90 when winter
comes again?
The rose there in the garden how
sweet how sweet it blooms
WHO planted it there--how lone will
Il liyc-and that particular blossom.
will it grace a table in the shaded
room Of an invalid-or will it be
worn in the bright meshcs OF beau.
tvs hair? II does not know. the rose
ii only blossoms and is fair.
Come wind Of the sweet salt sea,
teach me the lesson of your glorious
song Sing on in courage and in joy
and my heart shall sing with you.
md when the pearl of happiness,
the pearl OF friendship, the pearl OF
s love and trust, the pearl Of quiet con.
tent and honest happiness are mine.
! will treasure them and keep them
and not let them slip away because
am TOO occupied with other things
to watch them well.