The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-09-24

enliven the whole week.
Preserve the memory of past hap
piness until sure OF fresh supply, but
never place yourself in the position to
lose sight of both. II is as oppressive
as the darkness of a total eclipse
| About the most disagreeable habit
that anyone can get into is the nag
cling habit We all have times when
| we feel like nagging and the best
way for anyone TO avoid unpleasant
fness at such times is to go off by
ones self and fight off the ugly mood
| Nagging has ruined more homes than
anyone realizes because it is at the
start of many more conspicuous evils
Your best blessings are not recog-
nized by you until they have vanished.
your common privileges have little
value to you till you are deprived of
them. Your home inspires no special
gratitude till you are cast houseless
upon the world. Your friendsS the
icompanions of your life, the dear
sharers of your every day experience
how little do you prize the tender
ness of their love or the beauty OF their
character, until the quiet, unceasing
ministry OF goodness has ceased for
ever.
One of the most encouraging signs
OF national advancement Is the in
creased and deeper thinking on the
part of our young women. They are
filling growing number of important
in our larger concerns.
The kitchen in a house may repre-
sent an engine room in steamship,
and the. cook may represent the en-
gineer However, beautifully furnish
ed the rest of the ship is, If the en-
gineer is incapable or the engine is
broken all will go wrong; SO 1t is with
the home; no matter how nice the
parlors are furnished, If the cook is
not competent. everyone connected
the consequences
Stirring up bitterness In a neigh
boris heart is never profitable or pleas
ant
4Most OF us are inclined to take our1
family too much for granted just the
same as we take our town and very
often a family, or certain members of
it, need boosting quite as well as a
town.
1t doesn't pay to gossip about ones
neighbors. Let us have only kind
thoughts and good words for every
one, and be sure to lend a helping
hand whenever occasion calls for it.
In trying to tighten another's burden,
we forget our own; and the kind
thoughts we send out come back to
us like echoes.
The person that has wiped wet eyes,
moistened parched tongues, put a new
star in the sky of a dark life, added
beauty and bloom, the song of birds
and the blossom of flowers to the lot
of another is-whether he be rich or
poor, known or unknown. bound or
ifree-one OF Gods nobility.
The past is fixed. No tears can wash
away it's facts. We should waste no
regrets upon it; but, from the wisdom
which its very sins have taught US, |
we should start afresh on the race.
Take as much care of your money
as you caNif your means are limit !
ed, but don't try to save your smiles
or kind words. The more liberal you
are with these the more you will have.
Enjoy the blessings of today, II God
sends them and the evils of It bear
patiently and sweet. I
The rarest feeling that ever lights
the human face is the contentment
of a loving soul.
{ 1t takes very, little brains and much I
less piety to constitute a first class
grumbler.
NOTICE. 8s |
There will be pie social at the
Lower Lick Creek school house Sat-
ttrdav nfUht Gas1t Or