The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-09-08
Faith.
Faith is a great thing.

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But there are so many different
kinds of faith that it is quite a task
to properly file and index them.
Faith starts in childhood.
A baby has faith. He trusts that
the milk man will call regularly-only
this is figure of speedily milk |;
man is really meant-er-mama and
the dependable fountain Of his youth.
When he begins to creep across the
floor he has faith in the kitten when
he pulls its tail, faith that it will be
soft and wushy and furry and as I'M
resisting as ball Of yarn and not
scratchy.
When he begins to climb up to a
chair he has faith in his fat little legs
to perform the functions of sustain
ing his weight and permitting him to
advance at low speed to the next
chair without sitting down so hard
that he jars the paper off the wall
It's the infinite faith in himself that
enables him to learn to walk, how
ever.
This is bad thing for him to do.
If he had just kept still and never
learned to walk somebody would
carry him around or he would have an
automobile by the time he got grown.
One you start to walking in infancy
you are certain to keep it up all the
rest of your life
At school age he has faith in his
right wing to help lick the sox often
that fresh kid that thinks he knows
it all.
Sometimes, alas, this faith gets
rude awakening by the fresh kid u.s.
ing our hero's face to manicure the
earth with.
But the lovely thing about faith Is
it sticketh closer than brother and
if you just nourish it in your breast
and never let it get away from you
it will help you in lot Of things.
Thegreatest thing is to have faith In
yourself and then hustle like the busy
little bee to help keep this faith ago.
ing.
A man often puts great faith in q
sure tip that a good friend has slip
ped him on the q. t. Alas this kind
of faith gets more jars than fat
man gets in flivver, going over a
rickety bridge.
Faith is what man has in his wife
but what his wife hasn't got in him.
Faith is what you've got to have
in the Bible or you won't ever get to
Heaven, so we are taught to believe
and the very best people believe it.
Hope
Hope is a pretty word-it is about
the most inspiring word in the Eng
lish language.
It's what keeps us going-carrying
on, as 1t were.
1t is the old maids battle cry. She
never gives 1t up. She rolls 1t under
her tongue as a sweet morsel and she
slips it under her pillow when she
goes to her bed to dream about the
man who is some day to permit hel
to cook and sew for him.
1t is the universal motto.
The most pitiful case of it, how
ever is how tenaciously baldheaded
man clings to 1t every time he pur
chases a new hair restorer.
A spinister may get to the poin
where her hope weakens little, gets
shaky in the knees as it were while
her cheeks and her laughter become
more and more hollow, while sht
gets more and more accustomed t,
no society but her cat and her par
rot but she never, never nourishe
hope as violently and passionately a.
a baldheaded bachelor nourishes hi
hope to grow new head of hair SOM
time, somewhere, some how.
He winds up by buying wig or Il
lieu of that, going ahead and neat
the glare of the chandelier shingin
in the best society.
The married man has hope-lots Q
it-great hunks of it-he is Away
hoping that Fried Wife will fall 70
new fairy story he has concocted t
deceive her with.
He thinks he is demon for ingel
uity. Each time he has differer
tale to tell. For be 1t known half
married mans time is spent in e.
planning.
He has to explain lot to his wifi
For be it known she is always d
manding why he did this and so.
And that's where the hope stu
comes in. He hopes that the Lol
- will be with him and not desert hi
while he lies his head off to try al
worm out of some situation. I
hopes when he totes his weekly p