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THE OPTIMIST
Things a-lookin' rather blue?
All the world a bit askew?
Then, my friend, it's up to you
Just -to hustle out and do
Something worth the while..
Tipe the tears from out your eye;
Things will get worse if you cry;
Seek the paths where roses lie;
There is every reason why
You should wear a smile.
Though the clouds are dark to view,
Still behind the sky is blue,
And the sun will soon shine through
With his golden gleams on you
If you work away.
Though the day be dark and drear,
What's the use to quake in fear?
Wipe away that idle tear,
Look to see the dawning clear
Of a brighter day.
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Locked within their icy tomb
Are the flowers of springtime's bloom;
In good time they'll light the gloom,
Scent the air with sweet perfume
As you trudge along.
Life is always what it's made,
Why should you, then, be dismayed?
Keep on going, unafraid,
Every doubt can be allayed
With a. cheerful song.
Keep on working with a will;
Tackle e'en the steepest hill;
Bid each doubt and fear be still
And each day- with duty fill
Duty noble done.
Try again if once you fail;
At one ill-success don't rail;
Bravely face life's fiercest gale;
Don't sit down to weep and wail
Thus success is won.
Some Christian Thoughts
It's the easiest thing In the world
to buy Christmas presents if you
have the money. The real problem
comes when you are confronted, by
an empty purse. You want to re
member loved ones, but you are the
victim of a false pride that dictates
that you should make your gifts of
some intrinsic value rather than the
expression of love. That sort of no
tion has robbed the Christmas season
of its true meaning and caused it to
degenerate into an exchange, a bazaar,
or a display of ostentatious liberality.
The other day we heard a woman
say:
"O, dear! This Christmas will be
so expensive. We've just got to give
thus and so something really valu
able, and we can not afford it."
"Well, if you can not afford ,it,
don't,'" was the 'advice given.
You might begin the solution of the
problem by eliminating the grown
folks until you have made sure that
you will bring: joy to the hearts of the
little ones. It costs so little to please
the children, and the returns are so
great, that one often wonders why
more people do not make the invest
ment. A word to husbands: Don't hand
your wife a five or ten dollar bill and
say, "O, I don't know what to get;
just take this money and buy some
thing you would like to have." Your
wife is not the porter in your store,
nor the man who runs the elevator.
If she is the right kind of a wife
she would rather receive a pretty
linen handkerchief from you on
Christmas morning, if accompanied by
a kiss and a caress, than to be handed
a twenty dollar bill with the remark:
"0, you got something; I don't know
what to get for you."
The gift that is not an expression
of love or friendship is worse than
no gift at all. The gift made by your
own hands will bo prized by the re
cipient vastly more than a far more
expensive article purchased at the
store.
Christmas is the season of love and
good will. If your gifts are not ac
companied by these things, don't give
them. Such gifts are a blasphemy.
In one modest home in a western
town there is a room set apart for
the husband and father, where he does
some writing and most of his study.
On the walls are hung a score of
things made by the tiny hands of his
littlo one in the city kindergarten,
and given to him as Christmas pres
ents. He thinks more of any one of
these little paper presents than hei
does of all the rest of his household
treasures. He knows they were ac
companied by a wealth of love that
money could not buy.
Such presents are beyond price.
Money can not buy love It can buy
only adulation. A kindly word spoken
in season will be remembered long
after a purchased present has been
forgotten. A simple little Christmas
card, given in a spirit of love and
fellowship, is better than a silver
service given as a matter of "duty."
Do not put off purchasing your
Christmas presents until it becomes a
task instead of a pleasure.
If Christmas is to you a time of
anxiety, you ought to take something
for your disposition.
Struck
Farmer Corntossel drove into town
yesterday morning in an empty wagon.
"What's the matter that you didn't
bring in a load of wheat?" queried
the local grain buyer.
"Nothing at all the matter," replied
Mr. Corntossel.
"Roads bad?"
"Never better."
"Wheat all sold?"
"Got two thousand bushel."
"Price too low?"
"Ain't complain' particular about th'
price."
"Then what's the matter?"
"Well, this is what's the matter,"
said Miv Corntossel: "I see Roose
velt is advocatin' the policy of payin'
a lot of ship owners a subsidy f'r
haulin' stuff from one market to an
other, an' I ain't goin' to do no more
haulin' till I, get a subsidy on that
ol' farm wagon o' mine, by heck!"
queried Mrs. Wlsoman. "Well, I guess
wo can savo a little from them by
using those beautiful certificates to
paper Uio back ball bedroom."
Bclicvcablc
"I see whoro they have discovered
a mastadon tooth five inches long and
threo inchos wide. Do you believe
1 V
"Believe it? Of course I do! I've
got a bigger one than that aching in
my jaw right this minute."
Of Course
Today is bettor than yesterday,
But not as good as tomorrow;
So singing I go upon my way,
And trouble I'll novor borrow.
The Interest rate that trouble draws
Makes borrowers sup sorrow;
But that don't worry mo, 'becauso
It's something I'll never borrow.
Same Old World
"Do you think the world Is growing
wiser?"
"Sure! It takes us almost twice as
long to sell a gold brick as It used to,
and if wo didn't got more for em' we'd
be losing money."
Good Reacon
"Why do you support Jones and
opposo Smith? Both stand for the
same reforms."
"I know It," replied the man with
a special privilege granted by a care
less people, "but Smith means it and
Jones does not."
Success Assured
"But, will your new medical prepar
ation cure?"
"Hush! That's not the question. It
will sell because the man who is going
to write our advertising stuff can de
scribe every symptom of illness man
is heir to, and then make the reader
believe he's got all of them."
Amused
"Ha, ha!" chortled Mr. Wiseman,
looking up from his morning paper.
"I see here that another farmer out
near Whangtown has bought a gold
brick. The jays seem utterly unable
to learn that cheap, old trick."
"It is funny," replied Mrs. Wise
man, "that they never learn. By the
way, has that gold stock you bought
last month appreciated in value?"
"No," growled Mr. Wiseman, "the
fellows who floated that company were
a lot of swindlers."
"Just like the rest of them, eh?"
Brain Leaks
Jealousy has no trouble in seeing
things that do not exist.
Things we can do without trying
are seldom worth doing.
Every bride is a beauty when her
portrait appears in print.,
Real comfort consists In making the
very best of what you have.
We envy the boy who spent Thanks
giving with a grandmother.
The city man is always envious of
the easy life of the farmer.
It is better to be a littlo behind
the times than to be too fast. '
The genuinely reformed seldom
boast of their past wickedness.
Men who depend upon their own
strength lean upon a slender reed.
There is plenty of room at the top
and plenty of opportunity at the bot
tom. Some men attribute their success
to the fact that their first effort was
a failure.
This is the season of the year when
we get the most pleasure out of next
summer's vacation.
A lot of people gathered around the
family table on Thanksgiving day and
returned thanks to themselves.
It Is a long reach to the first rung
in the ladder of success, but the rest
of them are close together.
The man who simply does nothing
in order to rest, usually goes back
to work feeling worse than ever.
If Christmas shopping Is a bore to
you it is a sign that the presents you
give will be nothing but presents.
"Popular songs" are seldom lasting.
The office that has to seek a man
is usually a very insignificant one.
Mr. Carnegie says it pains him to
see an old man grasping for dollars.
A lot of us would go hungry if wo did
not.
The man who can smile when ho
gets up in the morning and finds the
fire in the base burner extinct is a
mighty hard man to keep down.
When a boy wants to do something
that he knows is not exactly proper,
but realizes he must have permission
to do, he always asks his mother.
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