Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
WHAT IS SUCCESS?”
Some of us may not be able to in
crease our income of dollars, but all
of us can increase our output of good
thoughts. And the man who creates
and distributes thoughts that con
struct, that foster greater faith, that
inspire more confidence, that make
for neighborliness and good-will, is
a success.
And the man who is that sort of
success will never lack anything need
ful to his happiness and well-being.
He simply “cannot escape from his
good,” the good he is daily creating
and dispensing. As he sows he reaps.
The work he loves to do, the serv
ice he performs whole-heartedly,
brings to him a just and all-suffici
ent recompense. He may never be
able to write his check for a million
—he doesn’t want to. A wealthy man,
man who can probably write a half
dozen such checks, and who has won
his way by the hardest sort of climb
ng, and by shutting heart and eyes
to the little joys along the road, said
to us the other day: “Say what you
ke, the people who have enough to
do with and not too much, who must
->lan a little, and wait and save for
something much desired, are the hap
<y people. They appreciate what they
have—it means something to them.
The man who has work that suits him
d that he suits, who loves to do
what he is doing, is a king. Why—”
he smiled reminiscently, “the very
happiest and proudest moment of my
life was when a club I used to belong
o staged a little play that I wrote.
How I dreamed of the plays I would 1
write in the future; how the plots j
wove themselves in and out of my
brain every w'aking moment. But they
never got any further. And now—”
he lifted his shoulders with a depre
cating shrug that said more than
words. “But you wouldn’t go back?”
we asked; “you wouldn’t give up your
wealth, your standing as a man of
affairs, and all the fruits of all your
years for a dream?" His face grew
serious. “I I could go back,” he made
answer, “if I could go back I’d choose
a different path. I have played the
game of mammon, and it isn’t worth
the candle. It wouldn’t matter so
much if this life were all, but I’ve
come to believe it isn’t. I have come
to believe that a man’s work is bom
with him; that we are builders here
for something beyond, and that the
poorest foundation possible to imag
ine is the making of money for
money’s sake, and power. The world
calls me a successful man; I’m not,
and I know it.” And here is Thor
eau’s own definition of success; let
us take it with us through the year:
If the day and the night are such that
you greet them with joy, and life
emits a fragrance like flowers and
sweet-scented herbs, is more starry,
more immortal—that is your success.
All nature is your congratulation, and
you have cause momentarily to bless
yourself.
THE MOTHER SONG.
The brilliant audience gave an ova
tion to the great singer. She was un
questionably the best soprano in the
world. The critic turned to his friend,
‘he self-made millionaire, and said:
“Did you ever hear any song more
exquisitely rendered?”
“Yes,” said the rich man musingly,
or he was touched by the magic of
vhat he had heard. “Yes, I have heard
three great singers.”
“I want to know,” exclaimed the
critic.
“The first was years ago. The sing
er was plain of face and gray of hair
ind tired of body. There was much
vork to do, and many mouths to
,'eed. I was the youngest child, sick
ind cross. And the dear singer
crooned to me a lullaby, and I slept.
It was a wonderful song. The next
•vas years afterwards. We had a little
cottage. It was summer, and the win
dows and doors were open. My wife
vas in the kitchen preparing supper.
3he was singing something about the
rue love coming home to her. It w'as
or me. And that, too, was a wonder
ul song. Some more years elapse.
There is a little toddler in the garden,
md she sings hesitatingly something
bout daddy and his baby. These are
hree singers, my friend, that beat all
/our sopranos.”
MY BOY.
‘Don’t send a boy where a girl can’t
go,
And say, ‘There’s no danger for boys,
you know,
Because they all have their wild oats
to sow ;’
There is no more excuse for a boy
to be low
’han a girl. Then please don’t tell
him so.
Don’t send a boy where a girl can’t
go,
’or a boy or girl, sin is sin, you know,
nd a good boy’s hands are as clean
and white,
Ynd his heart as pure as a girl’s to
night.” —Anon.
THE REMAINS.
A Negro child died without medical
ittendance and the coroner went to
nvestigate.
“Did Samuel Williams live here?”
e asked the weeping woman who an
swered the door.
“Yussah,” she replied between sobs.
“May I see the remains?” asked
he coroner.
“I is de remains,” she answered
proudly.
TIED.
Major George W’. Teidman, of Sa
vannah, Georgia, tells the following
about the old-time Georgia editor who
was usually mayor, justice of the
peace, and real-estate agent, as well.
Upon one occasion one of these ed
itors was busy writing an editorial
on the tariff when a Georgia couple
came in to be married. Without look
ing up, without once slacking his pen,
the editor said:
“Time’s money; want her?”
“Yes,” said the youth.
“Want him?” the editor nodded to
l ward the girl.
“Yes,” she replied.
“Man and wife,” pronounced the
editor, his pen still writing rapidly.
“One dollar. Bring a load of wood
for it. One-third pine; balance oak.”
—Everybody’s.
“You say that Jenkins owes every
thing he has to you?”
“Worse! He owes much more
than he has to me.”
A New England woman tell of dis
covering her new cook in the drawing
room, gazing at an aquarium with i
much interest.
t
“Well, Mary,” said the mistress of j
the house, in a kindly tone, “What do
you think of them?”
“Sure, they’re lovely,” said the girl,
“Will ye belave me, mum, but thi»
is the first toime in me loife I iver
see red herrings alive before!”
We are always inclined to be lenient
with the faults of people who are
bigger than we are.
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