The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-03-05
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Happiness.

Even IL you don't believe
The half of what
You say.
There's no room here for him
Who whines as on his
Way he goes;
4 Remember, son, the world is
Sad enough without
Your woes.
Talk happiness each chance
You get-and
Talk it good and strong;
| Look for it in
The byways as you grimly
Plod along;
/ Perhaps 1t is a stranger now
Whose visit never
Comes;
But talk it, Soon you1l find
That you and Happiness
| Are chums.
Too many of us are looking forward
to happiness in the future years in
stead of getting all the enjoyment
possible out of the present 1t is well
to remember that the time never will
come. in this world, wnen we shall
have everything we want Just where
and when we want 1t. The only way
to be happy is to enjoy all we have
to the utmost as we go along. 1t is
| right to lay up for old age in youth;
right to prepare for a rainy day, but
| II Is not right to bend all our energies
to this end and put off until the future
the happiness we might enjoy every
! day. II is very common to see people
working and saving, denying them
selves all recreation and many COM
forts, TO lay up money to buy more
: land, to enlarge their stock( to save
for their children) thinking that when
they have accomplished this they will
; be happy and begin to take comfort
The hoped for point may never be at
tanned, or If 1t is. sickness or death
may have come first and the dear ones
whom we expected to be happy with
may be gone forever.
One sure way to get into heaven for
day at least is to do kind act to
some one who does not like you.
A man who sits shrunk up and worth
less in little place. because he thinks
81 is not worth while to grow enough
10 I'LL that. has little prospect of get
ting into larger ones. Fill the place
that you are in. Fit yourself for higher
usefulness. To do that you must do
something besides play tho that may
be innocent in itself.
1.-The beginning of strife is like the
letting out of water" says the wise
king. and in no case is this truer than
in the case of family quarrels The
little breach, no larger at first than a
child's finger could stop but through
which comes the continual dropping,
it not attended to in time. will widen
and stretch till one fine day there is
a wakinl up to find the angry waters
rsurging around. sweeping in and over
whelming all the sweet peace and love
and harmony of home. There is no
greater failacy than to suppose that
because people are relatives, there is
less necessity for the common court
esy that is willingly extended to a
stranger.
Some OF the people who are the most
anxious about the recognition of
friends in heaven are the ones who
church.
of the public peace and morality than
policemen prison statutes and all the
'terrors of the law. Let a man be thus
home anchored and have an interest
in house and lot, and except he is
radically bad, he becomes a self-ap-
pointed guardian of the peace and of
public morals.
The carpenter Is abroad in the land
and many now houses are going up.
Not few of them are to be occupied
by young people, who have lately gone
through the ordeal of a wedding march
md marriage ceremony. AS a matter
of course there has been a great deal
of talking under the roses" about the
location, the style of architecture, the
lIuality and quantity of furniture to be
purchased, and how they intend to
live when they take possession of this
modernized Eden. oh, we wish we
could impress il on their minds that
1t doesn't matter so much whether
the house be built after Gothic or
pioneer style of architecture, whether
the furniture is of fashionable make
or home. manufacture; whether the
walls are hung with costly tapesty or
with family wardrobe; if love and vir-
tue cement the family circle. It win be
home in the truest sense of the word. |
The body is but the dwelling place of |
the SOUL so, likewise the house is but |
the tenement of the home. We cannot
all have perfect forms. and classic |
features, but we can have pure, beau
tiful spirits, we cannot all have ele-
CANT. richly furnished houses, but we
can have sunny, pleasant homes.
Courtesy, like charity should begin
At home. OF course one does not ex-
pect to find the same degree of cere-
nony practiced there as the formalities
IF mere acquaintance exact,&but there
should not be less respect and
difference paid to those who are nearer
ind dearer to us. than to outsiders.
rhe man who is a gentleman in his
home and among those who comprise
lis immediate household can be trust
d to do nothing unbecoming to gem
leman when beyond the precincts of
lome; but the man who is courtesy
Itself when abroad is oftimes the YER
est boor within the confines OF his
'wn dwelling place. Such a man may
ride himself on being gentleman;