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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl Wanted, by Nixon Waterman
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+Title: The Girl Wanted
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+Author: Nixon Waterman
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+THE GIRL WANTED
+
+A BOOK OF FRIENDLY THOUGHTS
+
+BY
+
+NIXON WATERMAN
+
+AUTHOR OF "BOY WANTED,"
+"A BOOK OF VERSES," "IN
+MERRY MOOD," ETC.
+
+CHICAGO
+FORBES AND COMPANY
+1919
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Copyright, 1910, By
+Forbes and Company
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  TO
+
+  --The girl wanted, who,
+    By her beautiful ways,
+  Shall brighten and gladden
+    Life's wonderful days.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREFACE
+
+The pleasure of giving to the public this volume has been brought
+about by the publication of the author's work entitled, "Boy
+Wanted," which he presented as "a book of cheerful counsel to his
+young friends and such of the seniors as are not too old to accept
+a bit of friendly admonition."
+
+The warm welcome accorded that book, and the many requests it has
+called forth for a similar companion volume for girls, has prompted
+the author to prepare the series of papers offered herewith, with
+the hope that they, too, may find as many youthful friends (between
+the ages of seven and seventy) awaiting them.
+
+In the present volume, as in "Boy Wanted," the fine prose thoughts
+are selected from the writings of a very large number of the world's
+foremost teachers and philosophers of all times, while the author,
+with a due sense of modesty, lays claim to all such examples of
+versification as are to be found within this book.
+
+In these days when the women of the world, with such splendid success,
+are writing books for the moral guidance and spiritual uplift of the
+men and youth of every land, an author need not feel called upon to
+apologize when he presumes to address his remarks to readers of the
+opposite sex, as did John Ruskin, to such fine purpose, in the "Pearls
+for Young Ladies."
+
+Since his own mother, wife, sisters, daughters and many of his best
+friends belong to the feminine half of humanity, any man who is a
+careful observer, a logical reasoner, and an adequate writer ought
+to be able to say something of worth and interest to the women and
+girls to whom he is permitted to address himself. If in this volume
+the author is able to impart to others, in a small degree, the
+beneficent influence he has received through the splendid precepts
+and noble examples of the women to whom he owes so much, he will
+deem himself grandly rewarded for the labor of love herein set forth.
+
+Nor is the author unconscious of the great purpose that should
+underlie the writing of a series of papers designed to direct the
+daughters of our land toward the greatest factor in the making and
+the perpetuity of a nation--a noble and beautiful womanhood. For
+observation has taught the world that--
+
+    We're almost sure to find good men,
+      When, all in all, we choose to take them,
+    Are, nearly nine times out of ten,
+      What mothers, wives and sisters make them.
+
+N. W.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+CONTENTS
+
+CHAPTER                                                             PAGE
+
+I  CHOOSING THE WAY                                                   13
+
+Starting right. The strength of early impressions. "Environment."
+The will and the way. Planning the future. "Mother's
+Apron Strings."
+
+II ACCOMPLISHMENTS                                                    27
+
+The ability to do things. Elegant and useful accomplishments.
+The value of thoroughness. "What Have We Done To-day?" The
+service of the heart. "Sympathy." "Only A Word."
+
+III THE JOY OF DOING                                                  45
+
+The power of enthusiasm. Working with heart and hand.
+Looking on the bright side. "Just This Minute." Happiness and
+its relation to health. Paths of sunshine. "The Sculptor."
+
+IV SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES                                             65
+
+The desire to do right. The importance of every-day incidents.
+True culture. "A Rose to the Living." Patience as a virtue. "This
+Busy World."
+
+V THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE                                               85
+
+"Likableness" as a desirable quality. The present the best of all
+times. The sunshiny girl. "The Prize Winner." The necessity
+of being prepared. "The Conqueror."
+
+VI A MERRY HEART                                                     105
+
+Smoothing the way with a smile. The unselfishness of happiness.
+"The Point of View." The joy of living for others. "The
+Better Armor." Cultivating happiness. "Song or Sigh."
+
+VII GOLDEN HABITS                                                    125
+
+Good habits and bad. The strength of habit. "True Gentility."
+Manners and personality. "What Are You Going to Do?" The
+worth of good breeding. "Drudgery."
+
+VIII THE PURPOSE OF LIFE                                             145
+
+The inspiration of success. Building day by day. "Morning
+Gates." The value of a purpose. Women's growing sphere. "Man,
+Poor Man." Opportunities and responsibilities. "Morning Prayer."
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+Martha Washington                                           Frontispiece
+Queen Victoria                                                   Page 26
+Harriet Beecher Stowe                                              "  44
+Louisa M. Alcott                                                   "  64
+Julia Ward Howe                                                    "  84
+Elizabeth Barrett Browning                                         " 104
+Florence Nightingale                                               " 124
+George Eliot                                                       " 144
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+THE GIRL WANTED
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+CHOOSING THE WAY
+
+
+Yes, my good girl, I am very glad that we are to have the opportunity
+to enjoy a friendly chat through the medium of the printed page, with
+its many tongues of type.
+
+Just here I have a favor to ask of you, and that is that you will
+consent to let us talk chiefly about yourself and the manner in which
+you are going to live all the golden to-morrows that are awaiting you.
+
+In a discussion of the topics which are to follow, it will be well for
+you to understand that there has never been a period in the world's
+history when a girl was of more importance than she is just now.
+Indeed, many close observers and clear thinkers are of the opinion
+that there never has been a time when a girl was of quite so much
+importance as she is to-day.
+
+Some of our most able writers tell us that we are just on the
+threshold of "the women's century," and that the great advance the
+world is to witness in the forthcoming years is to be largely inspired
+by, and redound to the glory of, the women of the earth.
+
+Come what will, the future is sufficiently alluring to cause you to
+cherish it most fondly and to determine that you will make the years
+that are before you as bright and beautiful and as "worth while" as it
+is possible for you to do.
+
+It is a glorious privilege to dwell in the very forefront of time, in
+the grandest epoch of the world's history and to feel that we are
+permitted to be observers of, and if it may so be, active participants
+in, the fascinating events that are occurring all about us.
+
+Yet with all the grand achievements that are being encompassed in
+every field of human endeavor, the world to-day, needs most, that
+which the world has ever most needed--words helpful and true, hearts
+kind and tender, hands willing and ready to lift the less fortunate
+over the rough places in the paths of life, goodness and grace, gentle
+women and gentlemen.
+
+And so here we find ourselves, just at this particular spot and at
+this very moment, with all of the days, months, years--yes, the whole
+of eternity--still to be lived!
+
+At first thought it seems like a great problem, does this having to
+decide how we are going to live out all the great future that is
+before us. Yet, when we come to think it over, we see that it is not
+so difficult after all; for, fortunate mortals that we are, we shall
+never have to live it but one moment at a time. And, better still,
+that one moment is always to be the one that is right here and just
+now where we can see it and study it and shape it and do with it as we
+will.
+
+Just this minute!
+
+Surely it will not require a great deal of effort on the part of any
+one of us to live the next sixty seconds as they should be lived. And
+having lived one moment properly, it ought to be still easier for us
+to live the next one as well, and then the next, and the next until,
+finally, we continue to live them rightly, just as a matter of habit.
+
+When we come to understand clearly that time is the thing of which
+lives are made, and that time is divided into a certain number of
+units, we can then pretty closely figure out, by simple processes in
+arithmetic, how much life is going to be worth to us.
+
+What we are doing this minute, multiplied by sixty, tells us what we
+are likely to accomplish in an hour.
+
+What we do in an hour, multiplied by the number of working hours in
+every twenty-four, tells us what we may expect to achieve in a day.
+
+What we do in a day, multiplied by three hundred and sixty-five, shows
+us what it is probable we shall accomplish in a year.
+
+What we do in a year, when multiplied by the number of years of youth
+and health and strength, we have reason to believe are yet before us,
+sets forth the result we may hope to secure in a lifetime. For it is
+not hard for us to comprehend that.
+
+    If, ever, while this minute's here,
+      We use it circumspectly,
+    We'll live this hour, this day, this year,
+      Yes, all our lives, correctly.
+
+As the work of the builder is preceded by the plans of the architect,
+so the deeds we do in life are preceded by the thoughts we think. The
+thought is the plan; the deed is the structure.
+
+"As the twig is bent the tree is inclined." Wordsworth tells us: "The
+child is father of the man." Which means, also, that the child is
+mother of the woman. That which we dream to-day we may do to-morrow.
+The toys of childhood become the tools of our maturer years.
+
+So it follows that an important part of the work and occupation of
+one's early years should be to learn to have right thoughts, which,
+later on in life, are to become right actions.
+
+The pleasant, helpful girl is most likely to become the pleasant,
+helpful woman. The seed that is sown in the springtime of life
+determines the character of the harvest that must be reaped in the
+autumn.
+
+The cultivation of the right point of view means so much in
+determining one's attitude toward all that the years may bring. Three
+centuries ago it was written: "What is one man's poison is another's
+meat or drink." So there are many things in life that bring pleasure
+to some and distress to others.
+
+There is a beautiful little story about a shepherd boy who was keeping
+his sheep in a flowery meadow, and because his heart was happy, he
+sang so loudly that the surrounding hills echoed back his song. One
+morning the king, who was out hunting, spoke to him and said: "Why are
+you so happy, my boy?"
+
+"Why should I not be happy?" answered the boy. "Our king is not richer
+than I."
+
+"Indeed," said the king, "pray tell me of your great possessions."
+
+The shepherd boy answered: "The sun in the bright blue sky shines as
+brightly upon me as upon the king. The flowers upon the mountain and
+the grass in the valley grow and bloom to gladden my sight as well as
+his. I would not take a fortune for my hands; my eyes are of more
+value than all the precious stones in the world. I have food and
+clothing, too. Am I not, therefore, as rich as the king?"
+
+"You are right," said the king, with a smile, "but your greatest
+treasure is your contented heart. Keep it so, and you will always be
+happy."
+
+So much of life's happiness depends upon one's immediate surroundings
+that wherever it is a matter of choice they should be made to conform
+as nearly as possible to the thoughts and tastes one wishes to
+cultivate. As a matter of course but few persons can have just the
+surroundings they would like, but it is possible that by pleasant
+thinking all of us can make the surroundings we have more likable. We
+can, at least, be thoughtful of the character of the friends and
+companions we choose to have with us, and it is they who are the most
+vital and influential part of our
+
+              ENVIRONMENT
+
+    Shine or shadow, flame or frost,
+    Zephyr-kissed or tempest-tossed,
+    Night or day, or dusk or dawn,
+    We are strangely lived upon.
+
+    Mystic builders in the brain--
+    Mirth and sorrow, joy and pain,
+    Grief and gladness, gloom and light--
+    Build, oh, build my heart aright!
+
+    O ye friends, with pleasant smiles,
+    Help me build my precious whiles;
+    Bring me blocks of gold to make
+    Strength that wrong shall never shake.
+
+    Day by day I gather from
+    All you give me. I become
+    Yet a part of all I meet
+    In the fields and in the street.
+
+    Bring me songs of hope and youth,
+    Bring me bands of steel and truth,
+    Bring me love wherein to find
+    Charity for all mankind.
+
+    Place within my hands the tools
+    And the Master Builder's rules,
+    That the walls we fashion may
+    Stand forever and a day.
+
+    Help me build a palace where
+    All is wonderfully fair--
+    Built of truth, the while, above,
+    Shines the pinnacle of love.
+
+If we are to receive help and strength from our friends we must lend
+them help and strength in return. And since the deeds of others
+inspire us we should not deem it impossible to make our deeds inspire
+them.
+
+Helen Keller, who, though deaf and blind, has achieved so many
+wonderful and beautiful victories over the barriers that have beset
+her, says: "My share in the work of the world may be limited, but the
+fact that it is work makes it precious.... Darwin could work only half
+an hour at a time; yet in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the
+foundations of philosophy.... Green, the historian, tells us that the
+world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but
+also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
+
+In the same spirit the great French savant, Emile Zola, penned these
+words: "Let each one accept his task, a task which should fill his
+life. It may be very humble; it will not be the less useful. Never
+mind what it is, so long as it exists and keeps you erect! When you
+have regulated it, without excess--just the quantity you are able to
+accomplish each day--it will cause you to live in health and in joy."
+
+Some wise observer has said that one of the chief aims of life should
+be to learn how to grow old gracefully. This knowledge is deemed by
+many to be a great secret and a most valuable one. Yet it can hardly
+be called a secret since every girl and boy as well as every person of
+maturer years must know that it is but the working out of the laws of
+cause and effect. When character-building is begun on the right lines
+and those lines are followed to the end the result is as certain as it
+is beautiful. When we see a grandmother whose life has been lived on
+the happy plane of pure thoughts and kind deeds we ought not to wonder
+that her old age is as exquisite as was the perfect bloom of her
+youth. We need not marvel how it has come about that her life has been
+a long and happy one. Here is the "secret:"
+
+She knew how to forget disagreeable things.
+
+She kept her nerves well in hand and inflicted them on no one.
+
+She mastered the art of saying pleasant things.
+
+She did not expect too much from her friends.
+
+She made whatever work came to her congenial.
+
+She retained her faith in others and did not believe all the world
+wicked and unkind.
+
+She relieved the miserable and sympathized with the sorrowful.
+
+She never forgot that kind words and a smile cost nothing, but are
+priceless treasures to the discouraged.
+
+She did unto others as she would be done by, and now that old age has
+come to her, and there is a halo of white hair about her brow, she is
+loved and considered. This is the "secret" of a long life and a happy
+one.
+
+Fortunate is the girl who is permitted to dwell within the living
+presence of such a matron and to be directed by her into the paths of
+usefulness and sunshine. And thrice fortunate is every girl who has
+for her guide and counselor a loving mother to whom she can go for
+light and wisdom with which to meet all the problems of life.
+
+"Mother knows." Her earnest, loving words are to be cherished above
+all others as many men and many women have learned after the long
+miles and the busy years have crept between them and "the old folks at
+home." Do not, O Girl! I pray you, ever grow impatient, as boys
+sometimes do, to be set beyond the protecting care of
+
+        MOTHER'S APRON-STRINGS
+
+    When I was but a careless youth,
+      I thought the truly great
+    Were those who had attained, in truth,
+      To man's mature estate.
+    And none my soul so sadly tried
+      Or spoke such bitter things
+    As he who said that I was tied
+      To mother's apron-strings.
+
+    I loved my mother, yet it seemed
+      That I must break away
+    And find the broader world I dreamed
+      Beyond her presence lay.
+    But I have sighed and I have cried
+      O'er all the cruel stings
+    I would have missed had I been tied
+      To mother's apron-strings.
+
+    O happy, trustful girls and boys!
+      The mother's way is best.
+    She leads you 'mid the fairest joys,
+      Through paths of peace and rest.
+    If you would have the safest guide,
+      And drink from sweetest springs,
+    Oh, keep your hearts forever tied
+      To mother's apron-strings.
+
+[Illustration: QUEEN VICTORIA]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.--Thoreau.
+
+It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a
+life worth looking at.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.
+
+The habit of viewing things cheerfully, and of thinking about life
+hopefully, may be made to grow up in us like any other habit.
+--Smiles.
+
+A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any state of the market.
+--Charles Lamb.
+
+The old days never come again, because they would be getting in the
+way of the new, better days whose turn it is.--George MacDonald.
+
+The man who has learned to take things as they come, and to let go as
+they depart, has mastered one of the arts of cheerful and contented
+living.--Anonymous.
+
+Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.--Schopenhauer.
+
+There are people who do not know how to waste their time alone, and
+hence become the scourge of busy people.--De Bonald.
+
+Not what has happened to myself to-day, but what has happened to
+others through me--that should be my thought.--Frederick Deering
+Blake.
+
+Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to
+bear are those which never come.--Lowell.
+
+The highest luxury of which the human mind is sensible is to call
+smiles upon the face of misery.--Anonymous.
+
+He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from
+without.--Goethe.
+
+Each day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of
+love.--Lavater.
+
+Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his
+abilities, and for no more; and none can tell whose sphere is the
+largest.--Gail Hamilton.
+
+Work is the very salt of life, not only preserving it from decay, but
+also giving it tone and flavor.--Hugh Black.
+
+Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces.
+Consider not what they did, but what they intended.--Thoreau.
+
+Work! It is the sole law of the world.--Emile Zola.
+
+No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes
+before a hearty laugh.--George S. Merriam.
+
+Concentration is the secret of strength.--Emerson.
+
+Anybody can do things with an "if"--the thing is to do them without.
+--Patrick Flynn.
+
+An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to
+be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.--R. L. Stevenson.
+
+The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder; a waif, a
+nothing, a no-man. Have a purpose in life ... and having it, throw
+such strength of mind and muscle into thy work as has been given
+thee.--Carlyle.
+
+It is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community than to
+perish of inaction in a stagnant solitude.--Mrs. Gaskell.
+
+The advantage of leisure is mainly that we have the power of choosing
+our own work; not certainly that it confers any privilege of
+idleness.--Lord Avebury.
+
+Suffering becomes beautiful, when any one bears great calamities with
+cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of
+mind.--Aristotle.
+
+Character is a perfectly educated will.--Novalis.
+
+One of the most massive and enduring gratifications is the feeling of
+personal worth, ever afresh, brought into consciousness by effectual
+action; and an idle life is balked of its hopes partly because it
+lacks this.--Herbert Spencer.
+
+Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it
+out.--Tillotson.
+
+He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company and choice
+of his actions.--Jeremy Taylor.
+
+Our character is our will; for what we will we are.--Archbishop
+Manning.
+
+He overcomes a stout enemy that overcomes his own anger.--Chilo.
+
+Good company and good conversation are the sinews of virtue.
+--Stephen Allen.
+
+If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but
+moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is
+denied to well directed labor; nothing is to be obtained without it.
+--Joshua Reynolds.
+
+If you are doing any real good you cannot escape the reward of your
+service.--Patrick Flynn.
+
+Simplicity and plainness are the soul of elegance.--Dickens.
+
+Happiness is one of the virtues which the people of all nationalities
+and every pursuit appreciate.--Joe Mitchell Chapple.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+ACCOMPLISHMENTS
+
+
+I am sure that every girl wishes to become accomplished, and I am
+quite as certain that every girl can become so if she will.
+
+My dictionary defines an accomplishment as an "acquirement or
+attainment that tends to perfect or equip in character, manners, or
+person."
+
+Surely every girl can do something, or has acquired some special line
+of knowledge, that is covered by this broad definition.
+
+It means that every girl who can sweep a room; read French or German
+or English as it should be read; bake a loaf of bread; play tennis;
+darn a stocking; play the violin or pianoforte; give the names of
+flowers and birds and butterflies; write a neat, well-composed letter,
+either in longhand or shorthand; draw or paint pictures; make a bed or
+do one or more of a thousand and one other things is accomplished. The
+more things she can do and the greater the number of subjects on which
+she is informed, the more highly is she accomplished.
+
+It is understood, as a matter of course, that thoroughness in one's
+accomplishments is the true measure of his worth. One who knows a few
+subjects very well is no doubt more accomplished than one who has only
+a superficial "smatter" of knowledge concerning many.
+
+We can all readily understand how much more pleasing it is to hear a
+true virtuoso play the violin or pianoforte than it is to listen to a
+beginner who can perform indifferently on a number of instruments.
+
+"A little diamond is worth a mountain of glass."
+
+Quality is the thing that counts.
+
+The desire and disposition to do a thing well, coupled with a firm
+determination, are pretty sure to bring the ability necessary for
+achieving the wished-for end. The will is lacking more often than is
+the way.
+
+It is a matter of frequent comment that we usually expect too much of
+the average young and attractive girl in the way of accomplishments.
+Because she is pleasing in her general appearance we are apt to feel a
+sense of disappointment if we find that her qualities of mind do not
+equal her outward charms.
+
+Charles Lamb says: "I know that sweet children are the sweetest things
+in nature," and adds, "but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the
+more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind." And so it
+is with girls who are bright and blithe and beautiful; the world would
+give them every charming quality of mind and heart to match the grace
+of face and figure.
+
+Hence we find that the girl who is most fondly wanted, by the members
+of her own family, by her schoolmates, and by all with whom she shall
+form an acquaintance, is the one who is as pleasing in her manners as
+she is beautiful in her physical features.
+
+Of all the accomplishments it is possible for a girl to possess, that
+of being pleasant and gracious to those about her is the greatest and
+most desirable. "There is no beautifier of the complexion, or form, or
+behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us," says
+Emerson.
+
+It is possible for persons to acquire a great deal of information and
+to become skillful in many things and still be unloved by those with
+whom they are associated.
+
+The heart needs to be educated even more than the mind, for it is the
+heart that dominates and colors and gives character and meaning to the
+whole of life. Even the kindest of words have little meaning unless
+there is a kind heart to make them stand for something that will live.
+
+"You will find as you look back upon your life," says Drummond, "that
+the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived,
+are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As
+memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures
+of life, there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been
+enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things
+too trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your
+eternal life ... Everything else in our lives is transitory. Every
+other good is visionary. But the acts of love which no man knows
+about, or can ever know about--they never fail."
+
+It is the ability to do the many little acts of kindness, and to make
+the most of all the opportunities for gladding the lives of others,
+that constitute the finest accomplishment any girl can acquire.
+
+It often happens that the thought of the great kindnesses we should
+like to do, and which we mean to do, "sometime" in the days to come,
+keeps us from seeing the many little favors we could, if we would,
+grant to those just about us at the present time. Yet we all know that
+it is not the things we are going to do that really count. It is the
+thing that we do do that is worth while.
+
+No doubt we should all be much more thoughtful of our many present
+opportunities and make better use of them were we frequently to ask
+ourselves,
+
+           WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO-DAY?
+
+    We shall do so much in the years to come,
+      But what have we done to-day?
+    We shall give our gold in a princely sum,
+      But what did we give to-day?
+    We shall lift the heart and dry the tear,
+    We shall plant a hope in the place of fear,
+    We shall speak the words of love and cheer;
+      But what did we speak to-day?
+
+    We shall be so kind in the after while,
+      But what have we been to-day?
+    We shall bring each lonely life a smile,
+      But what have we brought to-day?
+    We shall give to truth a grander birth,
+    And to steadfast faith a deeper worth,
+    We shall feed the hungering souls of earth;
+      But whom have we fed to-day?
+
+    We shall reap such joys in the by and by,
+      But what have we sown to-day?
+    We shall build us mansions in the sky,
+      But what have we built to-day?
+    'T is sweet in idle dreams to bask,
+    But here and now do we do our task?
+    Yes, this is the thing our souls must ask,
+      "What have we done to-day?"
+
+Among the every-day accomplishments which everyone should wish to
+possess is a knowledge of the fine art of smiling. To know how and
+when to smile, not too much and not too little, is a fine mental and
+social possession.
+
+Hawthorne says: "If I value myself on anything it is on having a smile
+that children love." Any one possessing a smile that children as well
+as others may love is to be congratulated. A pleasant, smiling face is
+of great worth to its possessor and to the world that is privileged to
+look upon it.
+
+A smile is an indication that the one who is smiling is happy and
+every happy person helps to make every one else happy. Yet we all
+understand that happiness does not mean smiling all the time. There is
+truly nothing more distressing than a giggler or one who is forever
+grimacing. "True happiness," says one of our most cheerful writers,
+"means the joyous sparkle in the eye and the little, smiling lines in
+the face that are so quickly and easily distinguished from the lines
+produced by depression and frowning that grow deeper and deeper until
+they become as hard and severe as if they were cut in stone." Such
+happiness is one of the virtues which people of all classes and ages,
+the world over, admire and enjoy. "We do not know what ripples of
+healing are set in motion," says Henry Drummond, "when we simply smile
+on one another. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as
+sunny people."
+
+Most persons are very quick to see whether or not a smile is genuine
+or is manufactured and put on like a mask for the occasion. The
+automatic, stock-in-trade smile hardly ever fits the face that tries
+to wear it. It is a little too wide or sags at the corners or
+something else is wrong with it.
+
+A smile may be as deep as a well and as wide as a church door; it may
+be "sweeter than honey," but the instant we detect that it is not
+genuine, it loses its charm and becomes, in fact, much worse than no
+smile at all. Smiles that are genuine are always just right both in
+quality and quantity. So the only really safe rule is for us not to
+smile until we feel like it and then we shall get on all right. And we
+ought to feel like smiling whenever we look into the honest face of
+any fellow being. A smile passes current in every country as a mark of
+distinction.
+
+But it is even possible to overdo in the matter of smiling. "I can't
+think of anything more irritating to the average human being," says
+Lydia Horton Knowles, "than an incessant, everlasting smile. There are
+people who have it. When things go wrong they have a patient, martyr-like
+smile, and when things go right they have a dutifully pleasant
+smile which has all the appearance of being mechanical, and purely a
+pose. Now I think the really intelligent person is the one who can
+look as though he realized the significance of various incidents or
+happenings and who can look sorrowful, even, if the occasion demands
+it. It is not a pleasant thing to suffer mentally or physically, for
+instance, and have any one come up to you with a smile of patient,
+sweet condolence. The average man or woman does not want smiles when
+he or she is uncomfortable. We are apt to remember that it is easy
+enough to smile when it is somebody else who has the pain. I venture
+to say that a smile given at the wrong moment is far more dangerous to
+human happiness than the lack of a smile at any given psychological
+moment. There is a time and a place for all things, even a smile."
+
+No expression of feeling is of much moment without a warm heart and an
+intelligent thought behind it. The seemingly mechanical, automatic
+expressions of feeling and of interest in our affairs are sometimes
+even harder to bear than an out and out attitude of indifference. The
+thing that really warms and moves us is a touch of heartfelt,
+intelligent
+
+               SYMPATHY
+
+    When the clouds begin to lower,
+      That's a splendid time to smile;
+    But your smile will lose its power
+      If you're smiling all the while.
+    Now and then a sober season,
+      Now and then a jolly laugh:
+    We like best, and there's a reason,
+      A good, wholesome half and half.
+
+    When the other one has trouble,
+      We should feel that trouble, too,
+    For, were we with joy to bubble
+      'Mid his grief, 't would hardly do.
+    Let us own that keen discerning
+      That can see and bear a part;
+    For the whole wide world is yearning
+      For a sympathetic heart.
+
+Nothing is more restful and refreshing than a friendly glance or a
+kindly word offered to us in the midst of our daily rounds of duty.
+And since we are not often in a position to grant great favors we
+should not fail to cultivate the habit of bestowing small ones
+whenever we can. It is in giving the many little lifts along the way
+that we shall be able to lighten many burdens.
+
+I do not know it to be a fact, but I have read it somewhere in the
+books that the human heart rests nine hours out of every twenty-four.
+It manages to steal little bits of rest between beats, and thus it is
+ever refreshed and able to go on performing the work nature has
+assigned for it to do.
+
+And therein is a first-rate lesson for most persons, who if they
+cannot do something of considerable moment are disposed to do nothing
+at all. They forget that it is the brief three-minute rests that
+enable the mountain-climber to press on till he reaches the top
+whereas longer periods of inactivity might serve to stiffen his limbs
+and impede his progress.
+
+Wise are they who, like the human heart, sprinkle rest and kindness
+and heart's-ease all through their daily tasks. They weave a bright
+thread of thankful happiness through the web and woof of life's
+pattern. They are never too busy to say a kind word or to do a gentle
+deed. They may be compelled to sigh betimes, but amid their sighs are
+smiles that drive away the cares. They find sunbeams scattered in the
+trail of every cloud. They gather flowers where others see nothing but
+weeds. They pluck little sprigs of rest where others find only thorns
+of distress.
+
+After the manner of the human heart, they make much of the little
+opportunities presented to them. They rest that they may have strength
+for others. They gather sunshine with which to dispel the shadows
+about them.
+
+The grandest conception of life is to esteem it as an opportunity for
+making others happy. He who is most true to his higher self is truest
+to the race. The lamp that shines brightest gives the most light to
+all about it. Thoreau says: "To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly
+to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of life."
+
+He is, indeed, a correct observer and a careful student of human
+nature who tells us that the face is such an index of character that
+the very growth of the latter can be traced upon the former, and most
+of the successive lines that carve the furrowed face of age out of the
+smooth outline of childhood are engraved directly or indirectly by
+mind. There is no beautifier of the face like a beautiful spirit.
+
+So we see that if we have acquired the habit of wearing a pleasant
+face, or of smiling honestly and cheerfully, we have an accomplishment
+that is worth more than many others that are more pretentious and more
+superficial. If to this accomplishment we can add another--the ability
+to speak a pleasant word to those whom we may meet--we are not to
+think poorly of our equipment for life.
+
+There is a good, old-fashioned word in the dictionary, the study of
+which, with its definition, is well worth our while. The word is
+"Complaisance," and it is defined as "the disposition, action, or
+habit of being agreeable, or conforming to the views, wishes, or
+convenience of others; desire or endeavor to please; courtesy;
+politeness."
+
+Complaisance, as it has been truly said, renders a superior amiable,
+an equal agreeable, an inferior acceptable. It sweetens conversation;
+it produces good-nature and mutual benevolence; it encourages the
+timid, soothes the turbulent, humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes
+a society of civilized persons from a confusion of savages.
+
+Politeness has been defined as society's method of making things run
+smoothly. True complaisance is a more intimate quality. It is an
+impulse to seek points of agreement with others. A spirit of welcome,
+whether to strangers, or to new suggestions, untried pleasures, fresh
+impressions. It never is satisfied to remain inactive as long as there
+is anybody to please or to make more comfortable.
+
+The complaisant person need not be lacking in will, in determination,
+or individuality. In fact it is the complaisant person's strength of
+will that holds in check and harmonizes all the other traits of
+character and moulds them into a perfectly balanced disposition.
+
+Complaisance rounds off the sharp corners, chooses softer and gentler
+words and makes it easy and pleasant for all to dwell together in
+unity. And it never fails to contribute something to the enjoyment of
+everyone even though it be
+
+             ONLY A WORD
+
+    Tell me something that will be
+    Joy through all the years to me.
+    Let my heart forever hold
+    One divinest grain of gold.
+    Just a simple little word,
+    Yet the dearest ever heard;
+    Something that will bring me rest
+    When the world seems all distressed.
+
+    As the candle in the night
+    Sends abroad its cheerful light,
+    So a little word may be
+    Like a lighthouse in the sea.
+    When the winds and waves of life
+    Fill the breast with storm and strife,
+    Just one star my boat may guide
+    To the harbor, glorified.
+
+[Illustration: HARRIET BEECHER STOWE]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+Only to the pure and the true does Nature resign herself and reveal
+her secrets.--Goethe.
+
+Every man carries with him the world in which he must live, the stage
+and the scenery for his own play.--F. Marion Crawford.
+
+The best is yet unwritten, for we grow from more to more.--Sam Walter
+Foss.
+
+Notwithstanding a faculty be born with us, there are several methods
+for cultivating and improving it.--Addison.
+
+Every truth in the universe makes a close joint with every other
+truth.--Melvin L. Severy.
+
+All flimsy, shallow, and superficial work is a lie, of which a man
+ought to be ashamed.--John Stuart Blackie.
+
+When we cease to learn, we cease to be interesting.--John Lancaster
+Spalding.
+
+The workless people are the worthless people.--Wm. C. Gannett.
+
+Our ideals are our better selves.--Bronson Alcott.
+
+All literature, art, and science are vain, and worse, if they do not
+enable you to be glad, and glad, justly.--Ruskin.
+
+All things else are of the earth, but love is of the sky.--William
+Stanley Braithwaite.
+
+To fill the hour, that is happiness.--Emerson.
+
+Ah, well that in a wintry hour the heart can sing a summer song.
+--Edward Francis Burns.
+
+Avast there! Keep a bright lookout forward and good luck to you.
+--Dickens.
+
+Genius is the transcendent capacity for taking trouble first of all.
+--Carlyle.
+
+For dreams, to those of steadfast hope and will, are things wherewith
+they build their world of fact.--Alicia K. Van Buren.
+
+No man can rest who has nothing to do.--Sam Walter Foss.
+
+Love is the leaven of existence.--Melvin L. Severy.
+
+Work is no disgrace but idleness is.--Hesiod.
+
+Shoddy work is not only a wrong to a man's own personal integrity,
+hurting his character; but also it is a wrong to society. Truthfulness
+in work is as much demanded as truthfulness in speech.--Hugh Black.
+
+The flowering of civilization is in the finished man, the man of
+sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
+--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
+
+It is all very well to growl at the cold-heartedness of the world, but
+which of us can truthfully say that he has done as much for others as
+others have done for him?--Patrick Flynn.
+
+A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work, and
+done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him
+no peace.--Emerson.
+
+Some people meet us like the mountain air and thrill our souls with
+freshness and delight.--Nathan Haskell Dole.
+
+I let the willing winter bring his jeweled buds of frost and snow.
+--Edward Francis Burns.
+
+The world is unfinished; let's mold it a bit.--Sam Walter Foss.
+
+Our wishes are presentiments of the capabilities which lie within us
+and harbingers of that which we shall be in a condition to perform.
+--Goethe.
+
+Do not let us overlook the wayside flowers.--Joe Mitchell Chapple.
+
+Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or
+misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a
+thunderstorm.--R. L. Stevenson.
+
+The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and
+blesses, and by which he is loved and blessed.--Carlyle.
+
+The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires
+is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.--Jonathan Swift.
+
+Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.--Lord
+Chesterfield.
+
+Indulge not in vain regrets for the past, in vainer resolves for the
+future--act, act in the present.--F. W. Robertson.
+
+The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in our power.--Hugh
+White.
+
+The man who cannot be practical and mix his religion with his business
+is either in the wrong religion or in the wrong business.--Patrick
+Flynn.
+
+I don't think there is a pleasure in the world that can be compared
+with an honest joy in conquering a difficult task.--Margaret E.
+Sangster.
+
+Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on
+every person's face; every wrong action and foul thought its seal of
+distortion.--Ruskin.
+
+Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
+themselves.--J. M. Barrie.
+
+Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it, but it
+eases the jolts wonderfully.--George Eliot.
+
+Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
+--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
+without action.--Disraeli.
+
+We would willingly have others perfect and yet we amend not our own
+faults.--Thomas a Kempis.
+
+The most manifold sign of wisdom is continued cheer.--Montaigne.
+
+There is only one cure for public distress--and that is public
+education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just.
+--Ruskin.
+
+To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so.--Wade.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+THE JOY OF DOING
+
+
+Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not
+won with flags at half-mast. No, they are run up to the very tops of
+their standards and are waved as far toward the heavens as is
+possible.
+
+If we lack enthusiasm we are almost as certain to fail of achieving an
+end as a locomotive engine that lacks steam is of climbing the grade.
+Even a listless, lackadaisical spirit may get on all right so long as
+the path of life is all on a level or is down grade, but when it comes
+to hill-climbing and the real experiences of life that serve to
+develop character, it is likely to give up the contest and surrender
+the prize it might win to other and more earnest competitors.
+
+"If you would get the best results, do your work with enthusiasm as
+well as fidelity," says Dr. Lyman Abbott. "Only he can who thinks he
+can!" says Orison Swett Marden. "The world makes way only for the
+determined man who laughs at barriers which limit others, at
+stumbling-blocks over which others fall. The man who, as Emerson says,
+'hitches his wagon to a star,' is more likely to arrive at his goal
+than the one who trails in the slimy path of the snail."
+
+Every girl knows that the girl friends whom she loves best are the
+ones who are alive to the world about them and who feel an enthusiasm
+in the tasks and privileges that confront them.
+
+Enthusiasm is the breeze that fills the sails and sends the ship
+gliding over the happy waves. It is the joy of doing things and of
+seeing that things are well done. It gives to work a thoroughness and
+a delicious zest and to play a whole-souled, health-giving delight.
+
+Only they who find joy in their work can live the larger and nobler
+life; for without work, and work done joyously, life must remain
+dwarfed and undeveloped. "If you would have sunlight in your home,"
+writes Stopford Brooke, "see that you have work in it; that you work
+yourself, and set others to work. Nothing makes moroseness and
+heavy-heartedness in a house so fast as idleness. The very children
+gloom and sulk if they are left with nothing to do. If all have their
+work, they have not only their own joy in creating thought, in making
+thought into form, in driving on something to completion, but they
+have the joy of ministering to the movement of the whole house, when
+they feel that what they do is part of a living whole. That in itself
+is sunshine. See how the face lights up, how the step is quickened,
+how the whole man or child is a different being from the weary,
+aimless, lifeless, complaining being who had no work! It is all the
+difference between life and death."
+
+We must play life's sweet keys if we would keep them in tune. Charles
+Kingsley says: "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have
+something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or
+not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in
+you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,
+cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will
+never know."
+
+All the introspective thinkers of the world have agreed that nothing
+else is so hard to do as is "nothing." It is unwholesome for one to
+have more leisure than a mere breathing spell now and then for the
+purpose of setting to work once more with renewed energy.
+
+They who work with their hearts as well as their hands do not grow
+tired. A labor of love is a labor of growing delight. "The moment toil
+is exchanged for leisure," writes Munger, "a gate is opened to vice.
+When wealth takes off the necessity of labor and invites to idleness,
+nature executes her sharpest revenge upon such infraction of the
+present order; the idle rich live next door to ruin." And Burton puts
+the case even more strongly when he says: "He or she that is idle, be
+they of what condition they will, never so rich, so well allied,
+fortunate, happy--let them have all things in abundance and felicity
+that heart can wish and desire,--all contentment--so long as he or she
+or they are idle, they shall never be pleased, never well in mind or
+body, but weary still, sickly still, vexed still, loathing still,
+weeping, sighing, grieving, suspecting, offended with the world, with
+every object, wishing themselves gone or dead, or else carried away
+with some foolish phantasy or other."
+
+But riches do not necessarily have to be associated with idleness.
+Riches rightly employed bestow upon the possessors of them the blessed
+privilege of being employed in the kind of work where they can serve
+to the best advantage and do most for their fellowmen. Indeed, the
+possession of riches places upon those who have them the moral
+necessity and obligation of doing more and better things in the world
+than is expected of the ones less amply supplied with wealth. "From
+every man according to his ability; to every man according to his
+needs." The larger responsibilities are placed upon those to whom are
+given the larger means of achievement.
+
+So it is a mistake to fancy that the possession of great riches would
+relieve us from doing all the tasks and duties for ourselves and for
+others that are inevitably essential for the physical and spiritual
+health and happiness of all mankind. No matter in whatever walk of
+life we may find ourselves, we must exercise our muscles or they will
+become weak and useless; we must stir and interest our hearts or they
+will grow hard and unresponsive; we must use our minds or they will
+become dull and inactive; we must employ our consciences or they will
+grow to be blind and unsafe guides that must lead us into dark
+distress.
+
+But to be employed does not mean that we must necessarily work in the
+fields, or in the factory, or in the office. There are a thousand ways
+in which we may serve the world. The only requirement is that we shall
+devote a portion of our time and energy to genuine service in behalf
+of our brothers, our sisters, our parents, our teachers, our friends,
+and all the world. And we must be grateful for the chance to serve
+others and deem it an opportunity rather than an obligation.
+
+And above all, we must find delight in the work we are privileged to
+do. "Every one should enjoy life," writes the ever glad and inspiring
+pen guided by the hand of Patrick Flynn: "Life was made to enjoy. We
+mean life, itself. The very living and breathing. It is a divine
+pleasure to inhale a breath of fragrant air out here in the country
+these charming summer mornings. And what jewels can compare in color
+or brilliancy with the pearly dewdrops that shine and glisten in the
+early sun! And the sun, itself! The great, mysterious, miraculous sun!
+Its myriads of vibrations dancing in the warm air like golden fairies
+and dazzling one's eyes with their wondrous beauty! Aye, and filling
+one's soul with love and one's body with health. And in the evening
+when the day's work is done there is above us that mysterious depth of
+star-spangled sky. We cannot fathom its mystery but like a stream of
+grace descending from heaven, we can feel the cool, refreshing dew on
+our upturned brow. Until at last we feel that we should like to take
+wing and actually fly up among those unknown worlds and come back with
+the story to our readers. And even though we cannot grow the wings, we
+go up in fancy and seldom come back without some new tale. The message
+is: 'Live life, love life, enjoy life, if you would overcome all fear
+of death.'"
+
+That is the spirit in which we should look upon all the beauty and
+wonder about us. To-morrow will ever be a joyous hope and yesterday a
+golden memory, if we are thoughtful regarding the manner in which we
+live
+
+                 TO-DAY
+
+    Let's live to-day so it shall be,
+    When shrined within the memory,
+    As free from self-inflicted sorrows
+    As are our hopes of our to-morrows.
+
+There are many who make the serious mistake of thinking that
+joyousness and cheerfulness are only for the play hour and are not to
+be made a part and factor of the time we must devote to toil. No view
+could be more faulty and regrettable. It is in our working hours that
+we should seek to be cheerful and sunshiny. All of our tasks should be
+sweetened and glorified with the leaven of good humor.
+
+    The task seems never very long
+    If measured with a smile and song.
+
+Listen while one faithful worker, Emory Belle, tells us how she
+carried the spirit of good cheer to her daily tasks and what came of
+it:
+
+"I started out to my work one morning, determined to try the power of
+cheerful thinking (I had been moody long enough). I said to myself: 'I
+have often observed that a happy state of mind has a wonderful effect
+upon my physical make-up, so I will try its effect upon others, and
+see if my right thinking can be brought to act upon them.' You see, I
+was curious. As I walked along, more and more resolved on my purpose,
+and persisting that I was happy, that the world was treating me well,
+I was surprised to find myself lifted up, as it were; my carriage
+became more erect, my step lighter, and I had the sensation of
+treading on air. Unconsciously, I was smiling, for I caught myself in
+the act once or twice. I looked into the faces of the women I passed
+and there saw so much trouble and anxiety, discontent, even to
+peevishness, that my heart went out to them, and I wished I could
+impart to them a wee bit of the sunshine I felt pervading me.
+
+"Arriving at the office, I greeted the book-keeper with some passing
+remark, that for the life of me I could not have made under different
+conditions, I am not naturally witty; it immediately put us on a
+pleasant footing for the day; she had caught the reflection. The
+president of the company I was employed by was a very busy man and
+much worried over his affairs, and at some remark that he made about
+my work I would ordinarily have felt quite hurt (being too sensitive
+by nature and education); but this day I had determined nothing should
+mar its brightness, so replied to him cheerfully. His brow cleared,
+and there was another pleasant footing established, and so throughout
+the day I went, allowing no cloud to spoil its beauty for me or others
+about me. At the kind home where I was staying the same course was
+pursued, and, where before I had felt estrangement and want of
+sympathy, I found congeniality and warm friendship. People will meet
+you half-way if you will take the trouble to go that far.
+
+"So, my sisters, if you think the world is not treating you kindly
+don't delay a day, but say to yourselves: 'I am going to keep young in
+spite of my gray hairs; even if things do not always come my way I am
+going to live for others, and shed sunshine across the pathway of all
+I meet.' You will find happiness springing up like flowers around you,
+will never want for friends or companionship, and above all the peace
+of God will rest upon your soul."
+
+And all of this was brought about by a change in the attitude of the
+mind and a determination to look upon the sunshiny, rather than the
+dark, side of life. We can all do as much. It is for us to say whether
+we will be happy and make others happy, or whether we shall be
+distressed and thereby distress others.
+
+What sort of girl are you going to be? Are you going to make the world
+glad or sorry that you are in it? Why don't you decide, as you read
+these lines, as did Emory Belle when starting to her work that
+morning, that you will try to carry sunshine and not gloom into the
+lives of all you meet? Let us hope that there is no great reform in
+this matter to be worked in your life; but that you have ever been a
+joy-bringer and not a gloom-maker.
+
+Therefore let us look well to the attitude of mind and our habit of
+looking at things. One of our careful students of human attributes
+tells us--and the truth of which we all know--"that there is nothing
+surer than that we go and grow in just that direction in which our
+mind is most firmly fixed. Hoarding money absorbs the whole time and
+mind of the miser; how to scatter it is the chief thought of the
+spendthrift. Our daily actions, and their result on our lives, are the
+effect of a cause--and that cause is invariably our previous thought.
+What you think most of to-day will be most likely what you will repeat
+to-morrow. Therefore it is of the utmost importance that we begin to
+think as deeply as possible on just those things that build us up.
+Half the work is already done if we can only concentrate our minds on
+that which we desire to do. It is the mind that drags us either up or
+down. Where that leads we follow. The power of direction is with us,
+but we cannot send our mind in one direction and then take the
+opposite road ourselves. Therefore, whether we are moving upward or
+downward in the scale of life depends on whether we are thinking up or
+thinking down. This is a truth that every person's experience will
+prove to his own satisfaction. Thought impels action, action forms
+habit, and habit rules our lives. So that no matter what direction we
+may wish to take, up or down, it is only necessary for us to fix our
+mind in the desired direction."
+
+So let us pause and take an account of stock and ascertain whether we
+are thinking ourselves up or down, whether we are building truthfully
+or falsely, whether we are going forward or backward,
+
+             JUST THIS MINUTE
+
+    If we're thoughtful, just this minute,
+      In whate'er we say or do;
+    If we put a purpose in it
+      That is honest, through and through,
+    We shall gladden life and give it
+      Grace to make it all sublime;
+    For, though life is long, we live it
+      Just this minute at a time.
+
+    Just this minute we are going
+      Toward the right or toward the wrong,
+    Just this minute we are sowing
+      Seeds of sorrow or of song.
+    Just this minute we are thinking
+      On the ways that lead to God,
+    Or in idle dreams are sinking
+      To the level of the clod.
+
+    Yesterday is gone, to-morrow
+      Never comes within our grasp;
+    Just this minute's joy or sorrow,
+      That is all our hands may clasp.
+    Just this minute! Let us take it
+      As a pearl of precious price,
+    And with high endeavor make it
+      Fit to shine in paradise.
+
+One who finds joy in the doing of things can work more easily and
+steadily than one who works unwillingly and unhappily. Good nature is
+a lubricant for all the wheels of life. It changes the leaden feet of
+duty into the airy wings of opportunity, it not only brings happiness
+but that almost necessary adjunct of happiness,--health.
+
+"In the maintenance of health and the cure of disease," says Dr. A. J.
+Sanderson, "cheerfulness is a most important factor. Its power to do
+good like a medicine is not an artificial stimulation of the tissues,
+to be followed by reaction and greater waste, as is the case with many
+drugs; but the effect of cheerfulness is an actual life-giving
+influence through a normal channel the results of which reach every
+part of the system. It brightens the eye, makes ruddy the countenance,
+brings elasticity to the step, and promotes all the inner forces by
+which life is sustained. The blood circulates more freely, the oxygen
+comes to its home in the tissues, health is promoted, and disease is
+banished."
+
+When we note how generally the members of the medical profession
+ascribe to cheerfulness the very highest of health-giving powers, we
+are led to think that the wise words quoted above possess a foundation
+of scientific fact. "Faith, hope and love," says Charles G. Ames, "are
+purifiers of the blood. They have a peptic quality. They open and
+enlarge all the channels of bodily vitality. As was learned long ago,
+'A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.' And the self-control which
+keeps reason on the throne and makes passion serve is the best of all
+domestic physicians."
+
+So the girl who would go down the paths of sunshine will put joy and
+enthusiasm into her work and into her play. She will practice her
+music lesson, take up her studies at school, assist in performing the
+household duties, and in doing the many tasks that come to her hands
+in a joyous, whole-hearted manner.
+
+In so doing she will make a pleasure of that which, with dull
+complaining, would be a drag and a distress. By this cheerful attitude
+of mind she will be able to mold all things to her will and, better
+still, she will be able to mold her will to her highest ideal of
+splendid womanhood. For none can doubt that man is the architect of
+his own fortune, to a very great extent. He is even more than that, he
+is of his own self
+
+                  THE SCULPTOR
+
+    I am the sculptor: I, myself, the clay,
+      Of which I am to fashion, as I will,
+    In deed and in desire, day by day,
+      The pattern of my purpose, good or ill.
+
+    In breathless bronze nor the insensate stone
+      Must my enduring passion find its goal;
+    Within the living statue I enthrone
+      That essence of eternity, the soul.
+
+    Nor space nor time that soul of yearning bars;
+      It flashes to the zenith of the sky,
+    And dwelling mid the mystery of the stars,
+      Aspires to answer the Eternal Why.
+
+    It loves the pleasing note of lute and lyre,
+      The lily's purple, the red rose's glow;
+    It wonders at the witchery of the fire,
+      And marvels at the magic of the snow.
+
+    "Who taught," it asks, "the ant to build her nest?
+      The bee her cells? the hermit thrush to sing?
+    The dove to plume his iridescent breast?
+      The butterfly to paint his gorgeous wing?
+
+    "The spider how to spin so wondrous wise?
+      The nautilus to form his chambered shell?
+    The carrier-pigeon under alien skies,
+      Who taught him how his homeward course to tell?"
+
+    By force or favor it would win from fate
+      The sacred secret of the blood and breath:
+    Learn all the hidden springs of love and hate,
+      And gain dominion over life and death.
+
+    In every feature of this sculptured face
+      Of spirit and of substance, I must mold
+    The shining symbol of a grander grace;
+      The hope toward which the centuries have rolled.
+
+    Oh, hands of mine that the unnumbered years
+      Evolved from hoof and wing and claw and fin,
+    'T is ours to bring from out the stress and tears,
+      A godlike figure fashioned from within.
+
+[Illustration: LOUISA M. ALCOTT]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
+--Emerson.
+
+Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words.
+--Washington Gladden.
+
+Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
+--Thoreau.
+
+Nothing will be mended by complaints.--Johnson.
+
+Peace! Peace! How sweet the word and tender! Its very sound should
+wrangling discord still.--Nathan Haskell Dole.
+
+The Spartans did not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they
+are.--Agis II.
+
+The man in whom others believe is a power, but if he believes in
+himself he is doubly powerful.--Willis George Emerson.
+
+The secrecy of success is constancy to purpose.--Disraeli.
+
+Men talk about the indignity of doing work that is beneath them, but
+the only indignity that they should care for is the indignity of doing
+nothing.--W. R. Haweis.
+
+Share your happiness with others, but keep your troubles to yourself.
+--Patrick Flynn.
+
+Neither days, nor lives can be made noble or holy by doing nothing in
+them.--Ruskin.
+
+Use thy youth as the springtime, wherein thou oughtest to plant and
+sow all provisions for a long and happy life.--Walter Raleigh.
+
+To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into
+garlands.--Madame Swetchine.
+
+When a firm decisive spirit is recognized, it is curious to see how
+the space clears around a man and leaves him room and freedom.--John
+Foster.
+
+That person is blest who does his best and leaves the rest, so do not
+worry.--A. E. Winship.
+
+Work is the best thing to make us love life.--Ernest Renan.
+
+If you want to be miserable, think about yourself,--about what you
+want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, and what
+people think of you.--Charles Kingsley.
+
+Aspiration carries one half the way to one's desire.--Elizabeth
+Gibson.
+
+The best thing is to do well what one is doing at the moment.--Pittacus.
+
+To work and not to genius I owe my success.--Daniel Webster.
+
+No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just,
+that is not founded on truth.--Joseph Addison.
+
+The loss of self-respect is the only true beggary.--John Lancaster
+Spalding.
+
+The tactful person looks out for opportunities to be helpful, without
+being obtrusive.--Margaret E. Sangster.
+
+It is labor alone, backed by a good conscience, that keeps us healthy,
+happy and sane.--Godfrey Blount.
+
+Labor was truly said by the ancients to be the price which the gods
+set upon everything worth having.--Lord Avebury.
+
+Our daily duties are a part of our religious life just as much as our
+devotions are.--Beecher.
+
+Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win,
+by fearing to attempt.--Shakespeare.
+
+The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be
+preserved only by the most delicate handling.--Thoreau.
+
+Energy and determination have done wonders many a time.--Dickens.
+
+Discretion of speech is more than eloquence: and to speak agreeably to
+him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good
+order.--F. Bacon.
+
+Bread of flour is good: but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we
+would eat it, in a good book.--John Ruskin.
+
+What is wrong to-day won't be right to-morrow.--Dutch Proverb.
+
+We are only so far worthy of esteem as we know how to appreciate.
+--Goethe.
+
+We are grateful that abundant life lies waiting in the heart of
+winter, and there is no condition where life is not.--Isabel Goodhue.
+
+Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go
+after them.--Muriel Strode.
+
+It is impossible to estimate the power for good of a bright, glad
+shining face. Of all the lights you carry on your face Joy shines
+farthest out to sea.--Anonymous.
+
+No one in this world of ours ever became great by echoing the voice of
+another, repeating what that other has said.--J. C. Van Dyke.
+
+One fault mender equals twenty faultfinders.--Earl M. Pratt.
+
+Let us then, be what we are, speak what we think, and in all things
+keep ourselves loyal to truth.--Longfellow.
+
+There are some people whose smile, the sound of whose voice, whose
+very presence, seems like a ray of sunshine, to turn everything they
+touch into gold.--Lord Avebury.
+
+It is work which gives flavor to life. Mere existence without object
+and without effort is a poor thing. Idleness leads to languor, and
+languor to disgust.--Amiel.
+
+How poor are they who have only money to give!--John Lancaster
+Spalding.
+
+Fear begets fear.--A. E. Winship.
+
+What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a
+man and fix our attention on his infirmities!--Addison.
+
+There can be no true rest without work and the full delight of a
+holiday cannot be known except by the man who has earned it.--Hugh
+Black.
+
+The more we do the more we can do; the more busy we are the more
+leisure we have.--Hazlitt.
+
+Lost--a golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. There is no
+reward, for it is gone forever.--Beecher.
+
+Good company and good conversation are the sinews of virtue.--Stephen
+Allen.
+
+A triumph is the closing scene of a contest.--A. E. Winship.
+
+Don't forget that the man who can but doesn't must give place to the
+man who can't but tries.--Comtelburo.
+
+Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered,
+then act with promptitude.--Sallust.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES
+
+
+I would rather be right than president!"
+
+At first thought those words seem to be the declaration of an
+unusually upright and conscientious person. But let us study them a
+little more deeply and closely.
+
+The desire to do right and to deserve the approbation of all good
+people is very strong in every human breast. Not until a man has lost
+his moral sense of values would he trade his integrity and self-respect
+for any other gift the world could offer. This being true, who among
+us would care to be president if in order to occupy that exalted
+position he must be obviously in the wrong?
+
+Thus we see that after all is said and done, the one great prize for
+which we all aspire is the love and good will of our friends and of
+the world. For no matter how much of wealth and fame may come to us,
+without the love and respect of our fellow beings we must ever remain
+poor and friendless.
+
+He is the richest who deserves the most friends. Wealth is a matter of
+the heart and not of the pocket. A thousand slaves piling up wealth
+for their master cannot make him rich. It is not that which others do
+for us that makes us possessors of great wealth, but that which we do
+for others. All true riches are self made. Only when the hand and the
+heart are put into one's work does it yield a lasting worth. In the
+final true analysis the picture forever belongs to the painter who
+paints it; the poem to the poet who writes it; the loaf of bread to
+the toiler who earns it. Wealth may acquire these things but it cannot
+own them.
+
+Therefore the true value of character is something that each must
+achieve for himself. It cannot be bought; it cannot be bequeathed to
+us; it must be earned by each individual who would possess it. Hence
+it is that these great riches may be acquired by all who desire to
+possess them.
+
+Where are they to be found? Right here.
+
+When may we obtain them? Right now.
+
+Do you care to learn the only way in which you can come into
+possession of them? "Whoever you are--wise or foolish, rich or poor,"
+says Rebecca Harding Davis, "God sent you into His world, as He sent
+every other human being, to help the men and women in it, to make them
+happier and better. If you do not do that, no matter what your powers
+may be, you are mere lumber, a worthless bit of world's furniture. A
+Stradivarius, if it hangs dusty and dumb upon the wall, is not of as
+much real value as a kitchen poker which is used."
+
+So we learn that it is the fine practical spirit, content and willing
+to do the humble things which are possible of achievement that is
+doing most to lift the world to a higher and better plane. "Have you
+never met humble men and women," asks Gannett, "who read little, who
+knew little, yet who had a certain fascination as of fineness lurking
+about them? Know them, and you are likely to find them persons who
+have put so much thought and honesty and conscientious trying into
+their common work--it may be sweeping rooms, or planing boards, or
+painting walls--have put their ideals so long, so constantly, so
+lovingly into that common work of theirs, that finally these qualities
+have come to permeate not their work only, but so much of their being,
+that they are fine-fibred within, even if on the outside the rough
+bark clings."
+
+If we are wisely introspective, we must reach the conclusion that
+humble though we may be, we are after all, a component part of the
+great expression of being, and that we are well worth while. Then if
+we are worth while, it follows that all we do is worth while, for each
+of us is, in the end, the sum of all the things he has done. Once we
+have this idea that everything stands for something more than the mere
+thing itself--that it is correlated in its influences with all the
+other things that we and all others are doing, we shall invest all our
+tasks, little and big, with more of purpose and importance. Emerson
+says:
+
+"There is no end to the sufficiency of character. It can afford to
+wait; it can do without what it calls success; it cannot but succeed.
+To a well-principled man existence is victory. He defends himself
+against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to
+it pleasant. There is no trifle and no obscurity to him: he feels the
+immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is
+led by it."
+
+Perhaps no other every-day virtue counts for so much in the general
+welfare of the world as the adapting of one's self to, and the making
+the most of, one's immediate surroundings. It is in the hundreds of
+little, unrecorded deeds of kindness and goodness that we lay the
+foundations of character. And because these humble lives, that mean so
+much to the other humble lives with which they come into touch, are
+never specifically named and shouted by the multitudinous tongues of
+type, that many fail to see in them the elements of true and noble
+achievement with which they are crowned. "The most inspiring tales,"
+it has been truly said, "are those that have not been written; the
+most heroic deeds are those that have not been told; the world's
+greatest successes have been won in the quiet of men's hearts, the
+noblest heroes are the countless thousands who have struggled and
+triumphed, rising on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher
+things."
+
+Since it is these humbler every-day virtues that one is called upon
+oftenest to exercise, or to neglect, it is apparent that the one who
+possesses the most of them and who cultivates them the most earnestly
+has the greatest number of opportunities of winning the admiration of
+others. It is of a girl possessing this fine adaptability to the
+world's workaday surroundings that "Amber" draws this pen-picture:
+"Shall I tell the kind of girl that I especially adore? Well, first of
+all, let us take the working girl. She is not a 'lady' in the
+acceptance of the term as it is employed by many members of this
+latter day's hybrid democracy. She is just a blithe, cheery,
+sweet-tempered young woman. She may have a father rich enough to support
+her at home, but for all that she is a working girl. She is never idle.
+She is studying or sewing or helping about the home part of the day.
+She is romping or playing or swinging out of doors the other part. She
+is never frowsy or untidy or lazy. She is never rude or slangy or
+bold. And yet she is always full of fun and ready for frolic. She does
+not depend upon a servant to do what she can do for herself. She is
+considerate toward all who serve her. She is reverent to the old and
+thoughtful of the feeble. She never criticises when criticism can
+wound, and she is ready with a helpful, loving word for every one.
+Sometimes she has no father, or her parents are too poor to support
+her. Then she goes out and earns her living by whatever her hands find
+to do. She clerks in a store, or she counts out change at a cashier's
+desk, or she teaches school, or she clicks a typewriter, or rather a
+telegrapher's key, but always and everywhere she is modest and willing
+and sweet.
+
+"She has too much dignity to be imposed upon, or put to open affront,
+but she has humility also, and purity that differs from prudishness as
+a dove in the air differs from a stuffed bird in a showcase. She is
+quick to apologize when she knows she is in the wrong, yet no young
+queen ever carried a higher head than she can upon justifiable
+occasions. She is not always imagining herself looked down upon
+because she is poor. She knows full well that out of her own heart and
+mouth proceed the only witnesses that can absolve or condemn her. If
+she is quick to be courteous, unselfish, gentle and retiring in speech
+and manner in public places, she is true gold, even though her dress
+be faded and her hat a little out of style. You cannot mistake any
+such girl any more than you can mistake the sunshine that follows the
+rain or the lark that springs from the hawthorne hedge. All things
+that are blooming and sweet attend her! The earth is better for her
+passing through it and heaven will be fairer for her habitation
+therein."
+
+How fortunate it is for us who would practice these little every-day
+virtues that we do not have to wait for some noted person at some
+remote time to tell the world that we are striving in our own humble
+way to be kind and thoughtful. There is some one within the sound of
+our voice and within the reach of our hand who will be glad to testify
+to our goodness.
+
+Kindness is never shown in vain.
+
+The gift blesses the giver, even though the one receiving the gift is
+ungrateful. Consciously or unconsciously we exert an influence upon
+all who come within the zone of our being. Surely those who know us
+best ought to be the ones to appreciate us the most intelligently. If
+we are lovable, will they not love us? If we love them, will it not
+serve to make them lovable? Let us not keep the nice little attentions
+and the carefully selected words for the stranger and the passer-by,
+but have as much regard for the ones of our own intimate family
+circle. We should be happy to do most for them who do most for us. One
+of our students of human happiness says to us: "Get into the way of
+idealizing what you have; let the picturesqueness of your own
+imagination play round the village where you do live, instead of the
+one where you wish to live; weave a romance round the brother you have
+got, instead of round the Prince Perfect of a husband whom you have
+not got." And Marcus Aurelius says: "Think not so much of what thou
+hast not, as of what thou hast; but of the things which thou hast,
+select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been
+sought if thou had'st them not."
+
+Culture, itself, is but a composite expression of our simple, every-day
+virtues. It must be measured by its outward manifestation of
+regard for the pleasure, happiness and advancement of others. Literary
+culture will open up the windows of the soul that the light of virtue
+from within may shine forth and dispel the darkness of vice with which
+it comes in contact. "Unless one's knowledge of good books--his
+literary scholarship--has so taken hold upon him as to make him
+exemplary, in a large measure, he cannot be said to be cultured," says
+one of our students of higher ethics. "His learning should cultivate a
+choice and beautiful address, a cheerful and loving countenance, a
+magnificent and spirited carriage, a refinement of manner, an
+agreeable presence."
+
+
+The extent to which we may feel a sense of peaceful satisfaction at
+the end of a day, depends upon how we have lived that day. We soon
+learn that the day means most for us in which we do most for others.
+If we have lived for self alone, it has been
+
+               A LOST DAY
+
+    Count that day truly worse than lost
+      You might have made divine,
+    Through which you sprinkled bits of frost
+      But never a speck of shine.
+
+"At the end of life," says Hugh Black, "we shall not be asked how much
+pleasure we had in it, but how much service we gave in it; not how
+full it was of success, but how full it was of sacrifice; not how
+happy we were, but how helpful we were; not how ambition was
+gratified, but how love was served. Life is judged by love; and love
+is known by her fruits."
+
+The every-day virtues include very many fine little traits that serve
+unconsciously to make our paths smoother, our skies bluer and all of
+life more glad and golden. They constitute a habit of doing the right
+thing at all times and so quietly and unostentatiously that no one is
+made to feel any sense of obligation. One who possesses these virtues
+does not wait for stated times and occasions to bestow evidences of
+love and good will upon others, but like a flower in bloom spreads the
+fine perfume of friendship upon all who come within the charmed
+presence. Intuitively and unconsciously does the owner of these
+virtues follow the precept set forth by the philosopher: "I shall pass
+through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do,
+or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.
+Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way
+again." And in expressing the same sentiment Amiel says: "Do not wait
+to be just or pitiful or demonstrative towards those we love until
+they or we are struck down by illness or threatened with death. Life
+is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of
+those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh! be swift to
+love, make haste to be kind!" We should not wait till some sad
+experience has taught us the rare privilege we may now own of offering
+
+          A ROSE TO THE LIVING
+
+    A rose to the living is more
+      Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead;
+    In filling love's infinite store;
+    A rose to the living is more,
+    If graciously given before
+      The hungering spirit is fled,--
+    A rose to the living is more
+      Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
+
+Of all the homely virtues there is none more to be commended and
+desired than patience. This priceless quality of mind puts its
+possessor into friendly relations with whatever the surrounding
+conditions may chance to be. There is no irritation, no clash of
+interests, no lack of organization for performing to the best of one's
+ability the duties of the moment, as they present themselves for
+consideration. Nothing is so conducive to success as to be able,
+calmly and patiently, to do to the best of one's ability the tasks
+that present themselves. "Success in life," says one of our students
+of the world's problems, "depends far more upon the decision of
+character than upon the possession of what is called genius. The man
+who is perpetually hesitating as to which of two things he will do,
+will do neither." On the other hand the man who hastily and
+impatiently disposes of the problems that confront him also impairs
+his chances for making the best of life.
+
+Have you ever experienced the sorry realization of how one petulant or
+peevish member of a household can destroy the happiness of a breakfast
+or dinner hour? What would otherwise have been a pleasant coming
+together of kindly congenial spirits is made painful and unprofitable
+because some one lacked the patience and forbearance to withstand and
+to surmount some little trial or irritation that should have been
+promptly dismissed from the mind and the heart, or better still, which
+never should have been permitted to enter. As has been truly observed,
+membership in the family involves the recognition that the normal life
+of the individual is to be found only in a perfect union with other
+members; in regard for their rights; in deference to their wishes; and
+in devotion to that common interest in which each member shares. Each
+member must live for the sake of the whole family. "Children owe to
+their parents obedience, and such service as they are able to render,"
+says Dr. DeWitt Hyde. "Parents, on the other hand, owe to children
+support, training, and an education sufficient to give them a fair
+start in life. Brothers and sisters owe to each other mutual
+helpfulness and protection."
+
+The patient disposition to do the best one can, this day, this hour,
+this very moment, counts for much in the building of a life. How
+perfectly is its whole purpose set forth in Channing's "Symphony," in
+which he so beautifully makes known his heart's desire: "To live
+content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and
+refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and
+wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act
+frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open
+heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry
+never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow
+up through the common. This is to be my symphony."
+
+It is this rare sense of poise, this patient regard for our own
+happiness and that of others, that enables some sweet spirits to come
+as a balm for all the bruises that a busy world can put upon us.
+"There is no joy but calm." Until one has learned to do his work
+pleasantly and agreeably he has not mastered the most important part
+of his lesson. "Blessed is the man who finds joy in his work." He will
+succeed where the complaining, discontented person will be almost sure
+to fail. So, let us cultivate this one of the chiefest of our every-day
+virtues. It will enable us to give to every moment the proper
+regard for its value and of the possibilities it offers for
+achievement. It will teach us that during every day, every hour, every
+moment, there is time for politeness, for kindness, for gentleness,
+for the display of strength and tenderness and high purpose, and for
+the exercise of that degree of patience that does so much to make life
+big and broad and beautiful in
+
+                   THIS BUSY WORLD
+
+    It is a very busy world in which we mortals meet,
+    There are so many weary hands, so many tired feet;
+    So many, many tasks are born with every morning's sun.
+    And though we labor with a will the work seems never done.
+    And yet for every moment's task there comes a moment's time:
+    The burden and the strength to bear are like a perfect rhyme.
+    The heart makes strong the honest hand, the will seeks out the way,
+    Nor must we do to-morrow's work, nor yesterday's, to-day.
+
+    We scale the mountain's rugged side, not at one mighty leap,
+    But step by step and breath by breath we climb the lofty steep.
+    Each simple duty comes alone our willing strength to try;
+    One little moment at a time and so the days go by.
+    With strength to lift and heart to hope, we strive from sun to sun,
+    A little here, a little there, and all our tasks are done;
+    There's time to toil and time to sing and time for us to play,
+    Nor must we do to-morrow's work, nor yesterday's, to-day.
+
+[Illustration: From a Photograph, Copyright, 1902, by J. E. Purdy, Boston
+JULIA WARD HOWE]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+Each, whatever his estate, in his own unconscious breast bears the
+talisman of fate.--John Townsend Trowbridge.
+
+When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good
+reason for letting it alone.--Thomas Scott.
+
+Once a body laughs he cannot be angry more.--James M. Barrie.
+
+Success is usually the result of a sharpened sense of what is wanted.
+--Frank Moore Colby.
+
+He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.--Benjamin
+Franklin.
+
+A sinful heart makes a feeble hand.--Walter Scott.
+
+Look within, for you have a lasting foundation of happiness at home
+that will always bubble up if you will but dig for it.--Marcus
+Aurelius Antoninus.
+
+To a friend's house the road is never long.--Danish Proverb.
+
+Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and prayer.
+--Henry Van Dyke.
+
+Give me the toiler's joy who has seen the sunlight burst on the
+distant turrets in the land of his desire.--Muriel Strode.
+
+You can buy a lot of happiness with a mighty small salary, but
+fashionable happiness always costs just a little more than you're
+making.--George Horace Lorimer.
+
+A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only
+edged tool that grows keener with constant use.--Washington Irving.
+
+Where there is one man who squints with his eyes, there are a dozen
+who squint with their brains.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.
+
+When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign,
+that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.--Jonathan Swift.
+
+What we have got to do is to keep up our spirits and be neighborly. We
+shall come all right in the end, never fear.--Dickens.
+
+Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be
+miserable.--Thomas L. Masson.
+
+Duty is the sublimest word in the English language.--Gen. Robert E.
+Lee.
+
+Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done
+without hope.--Keller.
+
+The activity and soundness of a man's actions will be determined by
+the activity and soundness of his thoughts.--Beecher.
+
+What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve,
+but the will to labor.--Bulwer Lytton.
+
+We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
+judge us by what we have already done.--Longfellow.
+
+The great hope of society is individual character.--Channing.
+
+Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do
+not burn until brought to a focus.--Alexander G. Bell.
+
+Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation, for
+it is better to be alone than in bad company.--George Washington.
+
+The public school playground transposes many a boy from a public
+liability to a public asset.--A. E. Winship.
+
+Real coolness and self-possession are the indispensable accompaniments
+of a great mind.--Dickens.
+
+One of the crying needs of society is the revival of gentleness and of
+a refined considerateness in judging others.--Newell D. Hillis.
+
+In this world inclination to do things is of more importance than the
+mere power.--Chapin.
+
+Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.--J. G. Holland.
+
+Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
+--Johnson.
+
+Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.--Disraeli.
+
+Follow your honest convictions and be strong.--Thackeray.
+
+Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.--Publius
+Syrus.
+
+Economy is of itself a great revenue.--Comtelburo.
+
+Grace is the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
+--Hazlitt.
+
+Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a
+distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.--Carlyle.
+
+Pull on the oar and not on your influential friends.--A. E. Winship.
+
+The noblest mind the best contentment hath.--Spenser.
+
+To be usefully and hopefully employed is one of the great secrets of
+happiness.--Smiles.
+
+The man who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live
+more simply without.--Phillips Brooks.
+
+Everything in this world depends upon will.--Disraeli.
+
+A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.--Comtelburo.
+
+All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of
+truth.--Whately.
+
+Mightier than all the world, the clasp of one small hand upon the
+heart.--John Townsend Trowbridge.
+
+The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.--Napoleon.
+
+Character must stand behind and back up everything--the sermon, the
+poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without
+it.--J. G. Holland.
+
+The question every morning is not how to do the gainful thing, but how
+to do the just thing.--John Ruskin.
+
+Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his
+misery.--Matthew Arnold.
+
+I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be
+wrong, leave it undone.--Gilpin.
+
+What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize
+the real.--F. H. Hedge.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE
+
+
+Do people like you?
+
+Are your girl playmates and classmates fond of your society? Are they
+eager to work with you, play with you, go strolling or sit by the fire
+with you?
+
+This one fact we must know; if we are not liked it must be because we
+are not the possessors of that fine quality known as "likableness."
+And if those who have had an opportunity to know us and our traits of
+character do not love and admire us, it is we and not they who are
+responsible for their state of mind. For as sure as the warm sunshine
+attracts the flowers, and the fragrant flowers call the attention of
+the bee to their store of honey, so a fine likable character is
+certain to gain and to hold the admiration of good friends and true.
+
+The face full of sunshine, the heart full of hope, the lips that are
+speaking pleasant words of good cheer and joyous faith in the world,
+will attract friends about them as certainly as the magnetic pole
+attracts the needle.
+
+The girl who goes among the people with smiles to offer will find very
+many ready to receive her gracious gifts, but if she carries with her
+sighs and frowns, instead, she will learn that the world wants none of
+them.
+
+We all love to hear pleasant things. The one who tells us that he
+thinks it is going to set in for a long rainy spell of weather is of
+less worth to us than the one who says he thinks that the clouds are
+going to clear away and that we shall have a beautiful day to-morrow.
+
+The grandsire who tells his young friends that they ought to be glad
+that the grandest, brightest and best era in the world's history is
+just before them, does much more to inspire them than does the one who
+tells them that the best days of the world were "the good old days of
+long ago," and that the golden age will never return again. Brooke
+Herford tells us: "There are some people who ride all through the
+journey of life with their backs to the horse's head.
+
+They are always looking into the past. All the worth of things is
+there. They are forever talking about the good old times, and how
+different things were when they were young. There is no romance in the
+world now, and no heroism. The very winters and summers are nothing to
+what they used to be; in fact, life is altogether on a small,
+commonplace scale. Now that is a miserable sort of thing; it brings a
+sort of paralyzing chill over the life, and petrifies the natural
+spring of joy that should ever be leaping up to meet the fresh new
+mercies that the days keep bringing."
+
+Know then, my young friends, that the best time that ever was is the
+present time, if you will but use it aright. It is full of romance, of
+heroism, of splendid opportunity, of all that goes to constitute
+experience and to develop character. There never was a time when there
+were more good things to be done, or when greater rewards awaited the
+doers of them. The summers are just as long and bright and golden; the
+roses blossom just as numerously and as sweetly; human hearts are just
+as warm and kindly, as they have been at any time in the world's
+history. Emerson says: "One of the illusions is that the present hour
+is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every
+day is the best day in the whole year."
+
+So then as far as the time and the hour are concerned, there is
+nothing in our surroundings to make us morose or gloomy or dispirited
+or indifferent regarding the influence we are exerting upon those
+around us. There is no obvious reason why we should not be joyous and
+happy at the prospect before us. We should have not only grace enough
+for our own personal needs, but plenty of it to spare for those not so
+gladly born as ourselves.
+
+And rich beyond computation is the one who has joyousness to spare.
+Better than gold, better than food and raiment and all material
+things, betimes, is a ray of sunshine from the heart, an uplift of
+saving humor from a merry tongue. "I have often felt, myself," says
+Benson, "that the time has come to raise another figure to the
+hierarchy of Christian graces. Faith, Hope and Charity were sufficient
+in a more elementary and barbarous age, but, now that the world has
+broadened somewhat, I think an addition to the trio is demanded. A man
+may be faithful, hopeful, and charitable, and yet leave much to be
+desired. He may be useful, no doubt, with that equipment, but he may
+also be both tiresome and even absurd. The fourth quality that I
+should like to see raised to the highest rank among the Christian
+graces is the Grace of Humor."
+
+Splendidly blest is that household that is so fortunate as to possess
+at least one member gifted with the grace of good humor. One such
+person in a home is enough if there cannot be more. Just when all the
+others are seriously confronting what seems to be a most sad and
+serious condition of affairs how just one word of illuminating good
+humor can change the whole point of view and send the foreboding
+proposition glimmering into nothingness. "Do you know, my dear," says
+Mrs. Holden, "that there is absolutely nothing that will help you to
+bear the ills of life so well as a good laugh? Laugh all you can and
+the small imps in blue who love to preempt their quarters in a human
+heart will scatter away like owls before the music of flutes.
+
+There are few of the minor difficulties and annoyances that will not
+dissipate at the charge of the nonsense brigade. If the clothes line
+breaks, if the cat tips over the milk and the dog elopes with the
+roast, if the children fall into the mud simultaneously with the
+advent of clean aprons, if the new girl quits in the middle of
+housecleaning, and though you search the earth with candles you find
+none to take her place, if the neighbor you have trusted goes back on
+you and decides to keep chickens, if the chariot wheels of the
+uninvited guest draw near when you are out of provender, and the
+gaping of your empty purse is like the unfilled mouth of a young
+robin, take courage if you have enough sunshine in your heart, to keep
+the laugh on your lips. Before good nature, half the cares of daily
+living will fly away like midges before the wind. Try it."
+
+What a world of inspiration and cheerfulness in the motto written by
+Edward Everett Hale for the Lend-A-Hand Society: "Look up, and not
+down; look forward, and not back; look out, and not in; and lend a
+hand." It is the lifting of the burden from another's tired shoulder
+that does most to lighten the load resting on our own.
+
+No one who truly is conscious of the value of sunshine upon his own
+nature and upon the spirits of those with whom he comes into contact
+will ever, for one minute, permit himself to be taken possession of by
+
+               THE "BLUES"
+
+    "Blues" are the sorry calms that come
+      To make our spirits mope,
+    And steal the breeze of promise from
+      The shining sails of hope.
+
+Margaret E. Sangster, who is the kind and gracious foster mother to
+all the girls of her time and generation, says that "being in bondage
+to the blues is precisely like being lost in a London fog. The latter
+is thick and black and obliterates familiar landmarks. A man may be
+within a few doors of his home, yet grope hopelessly through the murk
+to find the well-worn threshold. A person under the tyranny of the
+blues is temporarily unable to adjust life to its usual limitations.
+He or she cannot see an inch beyond the dreadful present. Everything
+looks dark and forbidding, and despair with an iron clutch pins its
+victim down. People think, loosely, that trials that may be weighed
+and measured and felt and handled are the worst trials to which flesh
+is heir. But they are mistaken. Hearts are elastic, and real sorrows
+seldom crush them. Souls have in them a wonderful capacity for
+recovering after knockdown blows. It is the intangible, the thing that
+one dreads vaguely, that catches one in the dark, that suggests and
+intimates a peril that is spiritual rather than mortal; it is the
+burden that carries dismay and terror to the imagination."
+
+A single member of a household who is given to having "the blues"
+often darkens a home that would otherwise be bright and sunny. Such an
+unfortunate person should bear in mind that when a servant is employed
+the whole household expects her to be kind, tidy, industrious, moral,
+gentle, and, above all, good natured in her attitude toward all.
+Surely the daughter of a household cannot wish to feel that she holds
+her position by accident of birth, and that if her family were not
+compelled to keep her they would not.
+
+Charles Dickens says: "It is not possible to know how far the
+influence of any amiable, honest-hearted, duty-doing man flows out
+into the world." A bright, cheerful, sunshiny daughter in a home can
+never know how great is her influence for making the little household
+world holier and happier for all whose life interests are centered
+therein. Hamilton Wright Mabie says: "The day is dark only when the
+mind is dark; all weathers are pleasant when the heart is at rest."
+Bliss Carman observes that "happiness, perhaps, comes by the grace of
+Heaven, but the wearing of a happy countenance, the preserving of a
+happy mien, is a duty, not a blessing." This thought that it is one's
+duty to be happy is set forth still more forcibly by Lilian Whiting:
+"No one has any more right to go about unhappy than he has to go about
+ill-bred."
+
+The girl with sunshine in her thoughts and sunshine in her eyes will
+find sunshine everywhere. Wherever she may go her gracious presence
+will light the way and make her every path more smooth and beautiful.
+In the home, in the school, amid whatever conditions surround her, she
+will shine with the glow of a rose in bloom. She will see the good and
+the beautiful in the persons whom she meets; while all the charms of
+nature, as portrayed in field and forest, will be to her a never-ending
+source of interest and enjoyment. Above all, she will warmly
+cherish life and look upon it as being crowded with priceless
+opportunities for obtaining happiness for herself and for others. She
+will be filled with the same exhuberant spirit of joy in the mere fact
+of her being that Mrs. Holden so happily sets forth: "I love this
+world. I never walk out in the morning when all its radiant colors are
+newly washed with dew, or at splendid noon, when, like an untired
+racer, the sun has flashed around his mid-day course, or at evening,
+when a fringe of a shadow, like the lash of a weary eye, droops over
+mountain and valley and sea, or in the majestic pomp of night when
+stars swarm together like bees, and the moon clears its way through
+the golden fields as a sickle through the ripened wheat, that I do not
+hug myself for very joy that I am yet alive. What matter if I am poor
+and unsheltered and costumeless?
+
+Thank God, I am yet alive! People who tire of this world before they
+are seventy and pretend that they are ready to leave it, are either
+crazy or stuck as full of bodily ailments as a cushion is of pins. The
+happy, the warm-blooded, the sunny-natured and the loving cling to
+life as petals cling to the calyx of a budding rose. By and by, when
+the rose is over-ripe, or when the frosts come and the November winds
+are trumpeting through all the leafless spaces of the woods, will be
+time to die. It is no time now, while there is a dark space left on
+earth that love can brighten, while there is a human lot to be
+alleviated by a smile, or a burden to be lifted with a sympathizing
+tear."
+
+We all understand that it is not so difficult for us to be bright and
+smiling and gracious toward everyone when there is naught to disturb
+the serenity of our thoughts, and when nothing happens to interfere
+with the fulfillment of our wishes. But when things go "at sixes and
+sevens," when our dearest purposes are thwarted, when some one is
+about to gain the place or prize which we covet, when we are forced to
+stay within doors when we very much prefer to go in the fields; then
+it requires more of character, more of strength, more of the true
+spirit of sacrifice to wear a smiling face and to maintain a cheerful
+heart. But instead of fleeing from the petty trials that cross our
+paths we should welcome them as opportunities for testing and
+strengthening our good purposes. Newcomb tells us: "Disappointment
+should always be taken as a stimulant, and never viewed as a
+discouragement." To the sunshiny, philosophical person, trials and
+difficulties but serve to help him to develop into
+
+               THE PRIZE WINNER
+
+      Oh, the man who wins the prize
+      Is the one who bravely tries,
+    As he works his way amid the toil and stress,
+      Through the college of Hard Knocks,
+      So to hew his stumbling-blocks,
+    They will serve as stepping-stones toward success.
+
+Sunshine has ever been deemed by the close students of life as a most
+essential element in the achievement of the highest and fullest
+success. The optimist sees open paths leading to pleasant and
+prosperous fields of endeavor where the pessimist can see no way out
+of the hopeless surroundings amid which he has been thrust by an
+unkind fate. The disposition to seize upon the opportunities lying
+close at hand and to believe that the here and now is full of sunshine
+and golden possibilities has carried many a one to success, where
+others, lacking the illumination born of good cheer and a hope well
+grounded in a broad and beautiful faith, have sat complainingly by the
+way and permitted the golden chances to go by unobserved.
+
+"Born of only ordinary capacity, but of extraordinary persistency,"
+said Professor Maria Mitchell, the distinguished astronomer, in the
+later years of her life in looking back upon her career. But she
+added, with a simplicity as rare as it is pleasing: "I did not quite
+take this in, myself, until I came to mingle with the best girls of
+our college, and to become aware how rich their mines are and how
+little they have been worked." At sixteen she left school, and at
+eighteen accepted the position of librarian of the Nantucket public
+library. Her duties were light and she had ample opportunity,
+surrounded as she was by books, to read and study, while leisure was
+also left her to pursue by practical observation the science in which
+she afterward became known. Those who dwell upon the smaller islands,
+among which must be classed Nantucket, her island home, learn almost
+of necessity to study the sea and the sky. The Mitchell family
+possessed an excellent telescope. From childhood Maria had been
+accustomed to the use of this instrument, searching out with its aid,
+the distant sails upon the horizon by day, and viewing the stars by
+night. Her father possessed a marked taste for astronomy, and carried
+on an independent series of observations. He taught his daughter all
+he knew, and what was more to her advancement, she applied herself to
+the study and made as much independent advancement as was possible for
+her to do. It was this cheerful willingness to make the most of her
+immediate surroundings that proved to be the secret of her world-wide
+fame in after years when her name was included with those of the other
+prominent astronomers of the world. At half past ten of the evening of
+October First, 1847, she made the discovery which first brought her
+name before the public. She was gazing through her glass with her
+usual quiet intentness when she was suddenly startled to perceive "an
+unknown comet, nearly vertical above Polaris, about five degrees." At
+first she could not believe her eyes; then hoping and doubting,
+scarcely daring to think that she had really made a discovery, she
+obtained its right ascension and declination. She then told her
+father, who gave the news to the other astronomers and to the world,
+and her claim to the discovery was duly accepted and ever after stood
+to her lasting credit. But had she not been interested in her work and
+competent to seize upon and to make the most of the opportunity that
+presented itself, she would not have been able to make herself the
+first of all the beings of our earth to observe and record this
+strange visitant to our starry realms above us.
+
+It is the faith which the sunshiny spirit has in the "worth whileness"
+of life and its possibilities that makes him or her who possesses it
+prepare for the best that is to come. It is because of the
+"preparedness" achieved by labor that men and women are able to seize
+upon and make the most of the "lucky chance" that may bring them
+happiness and success.
+
+While Thomas A. Edison was yet a youth, the desire to make himself of
+worth to the world and to be able to do something that would make him
+a living while he was still fitting himself for better things, he
+spent the leisure which most boys would spend in idleness or
+purposeless pastime in learning the telegrapher's code. Later on this
+knowledge gave him work which enabled him to gain experience as a
+telegraph operator, which in turn led to his invention of the
+quadruplex telegraph. But the invention was temporarily a failure,
+although later on a great success. Sorely reduced in circumstances, he
+was one day tramping the streets of New York without a cent.
+
+"I happened one day," he says, "into the office of a 'gold ticker'
+company which had about five hundred subscribers. I was standing
+beside the apparatus when it gave a terrific rip-roar and suddenly
+stopped. In a few minutes hundreds of messenger boys blocked up the
+doorway and yelled for some one to fix the tickers in the office. The
+man in charge of the place was completely upset; so I stepped up to
+him and said: 'I think I know what's the matter.' I removed a loose
+contact spring that had fallen between the wheels; the machine went
+on. The result? I was appointed to take charge of the service at three
+hundred dollars a month. When I heard what the salary was I almost
+fainted." It had been his hopeful, cheerful, expectant attitude toward
+the future that had ever prompted him to fit himself so well that when
+the opportunity offered itself he was able to show that he possessed
+the grasp of things that made him
+
+                   THE CONQUEROR
+
+    There's a day, there's an hour, a moment of time
+      When Fate shall be willing to try us;
+    This one test of our worth and our purpose sublime,
+      It will not, it cannot deny us.
+    'Tis our right to demand one true crisis, else how
+      Shall we prove by our valor undaunted
+    That we merit the wreath Fortune lays on the brow
+      Of the man who is there when he's wanted?
+
+    And whene'er Opportunity knocks at his door
+      The wise one's glad greeting is, "Ready!"
+    He has garnered, of knowledge, an adequate store,
+      His purpose is seasoned and steady.
+    With soul and with spirit, with hand and with heart,
+      And with strength that he never has vaunted,
+    He is fashioned and fitted to compass his part,
+      Is the man who is there when he's wanted.
+
+    The world is a stage and our lives are a play
+      And the role that is given us in it
+    May be grand or obscure, yet there comes the great day
+      When we speak its best lines for a minute.
+    And the dream that through all of life's trials and tears,
+      The soul, like soft music, has haunted,
+    Comes true, and the world gives its smiles and its cheers
+      To the man who is there when he's wanted.
+
+[Illustration: ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+Kind words are worth much and they cost little.--Proverb.
+
+The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
+--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
+
+Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a
+philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
+--Byron.
+
+To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is
+the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a
+human being.--Lord Avebury.
+
+Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of all health.
+--Amiel.
+
+Not in the clamour of the crowded streets, not in the shouts and
+plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
+--Longfellow.
+
+A man should always keep learning something--"always," as Arnold said,
+"keep the stream running"--whereas most people let it stagnate about
+middle life.--Anonymous.
+
+A smile passes current in every country as a mark of distinction.
+--Joe Mitchell Chapple.
+
+The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
+--Tennyson.
+
+No man ever sunk under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's
+burden is added to the burden of to-day that the burden is more than a
+man can bear.--George MacDonald.
+
+Though sorrow must come, where is the advantage of rushing to meet it?
+It will be time enough to grieve when it comes; meanwhile, hope for
+better things.--Seneca.
+
+All my old opinions were only stages on the way to the one I now hold,
+as itself is only a stage on the way to something else.--R. L. Stevenson.
+
+Hasten slowly, and, without losing heart, put your work twenty times
+upon the anvil.--Boileau.
+
+Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control--these three alone lead
+life to sovereign power.--Tennyson.
+
+It is curious to what an extent our happiness or unhappiness depends
+upon the manner in which we view things.--E. C. Burke.
+
+Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they
+love truth.--Joubert.
+
+Truth is tough; it will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you
+may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and
+full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.
+
+Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.--Emerson.
+
+The aids to noble life are all within.--Matthew Arnold.
+
+Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.--B. R. Haydon.
+
+It is a serious thing that we should see the full beauty of our lives
+only when they are passed or in visions of a possible future. What we
+most need is to see and feel the beauty and joy of to-day.--Maurice D.
+Conway.
+
+Let us enjoy the scenery of the present moment. The landscape around
+the bend will still be there when our life-train arrives.--Horatio W.
+Dresser.
+
+If we cannot get what we like let us try to like what we can get.
+--Spanish Proverb.
+
+Men continually forget that happiness is a condition of the mind and
+not a disposition of circumstances.--Lecky.
+
+If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask
+as to the condition of its women.--Aime Martin.
+
+Delicacy in woman is strength.--Lichtenberg.
+
+Who has not experienced how, on nearer acquaintance, plainness becomes
+beautified, and beauty loses its charm, according to the quality of
+the heart and mind.--Fredrika Bremer.
+
+Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low,--an excellent thing in
+woman.--Shakespeare.
+
+Gentleness, cheerfulness, and urbanity are the Three Graces of
+manners.--Marguerite de Valois.
+
+To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is
+power.--George MacDonald.
+
+A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can
+afford to let alone.--Thoreau.
+
+In truth, how could I feel this gladness now had I not known the
+bitterness of woe.--Alicia K. Van Buren.
+
+Of all the joys we can bring into our own lives there is none so
+joyous as that which comes to us as the result of caring for others
+and brightening sad lives.--E. C. Burke.
+
+Human improvement is from within outward.--Froude.
+
+Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous
+preservers of good looks.--Dickens.
+
+The law of true living is toil.--J. R. Miller.
+
+We may make the best of life, or we may make the worst of it, and it
+depends very much upon ourselves whether we extract joy or misery from
+it.--Smiles.
+
+Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every
+pessimist would keep the world at a standstill.--Helen Keller.
+
+He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his
+business at night.--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+It is great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible,
+but to try instead to escape from other people's faults, which is
+impossible.--Marcus Aurelius.
+
+Labor is discovered to be the grand conquerer, enriching and building
+up nations more surely than the proudest battles.--William Ellery
+Channing.
+
+It is easier to leave the wrong thing unsaid than to unsay it.--George
+Horace Lorimer.
+
+Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of
+human welfare.--Tolstoi.
+
+If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must
+toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by
+self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is
+a happy one.--Ruskin.
+
+One of the grandest things in having rights is that, being your
+rights, you may give them up.--George MacDonald.
+
+Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in
+some respects, whether he chooses to be or not.--Hawthorne.
+
+Expediency is man's wisdom. Doing right is God's.--George Meredith.
+
+Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are
+found only in the depths of thought.--Victor Hugo.
+
+I simply declare my determination not to feed on the broth of
+literature when I can get strong soup.--George Eliot.
+
+A thousand words leave not the same deep print as does a single deed.
+--Ibsen.
+
+Woman--the crown of creation.--Herder.
+
+Harmony is the essence of power as well as beauty.--A. E. Winship.
+
+Be faithful to thyself, and fear no other witness but thy fear.
+--Shelley.
+
+To give heartfelt praise to noble actions is, in some measure, making
+them our own.--La Rochefoucauld.
+
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+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+A MERRY HEART
+
+
+Who among us can presume to estimate the value of a merry heart? What
+a perpetual blessing it is to its possessor and to all who must come
+into close relationship with the owner of it!
+
+There is nothing more pleasantly "catching" than happiness. The happy
+person serves to make all about him or her the more happy. What the
+bright, inspiring sunshine adds to the beauty of the fields, a happy
+disposition adds to the charm of all the incidents and experiences of
+one's daily life.
+
+Do not you, whose eyes are perusing these lines, love to associate
+with a friend possessing a cheerful disposition? And do you not
+intuitively refrain from meeting with the unfortunate one whose looks
+and words are heavy with complainings or whose eyes fail to see the
+beauty of the world lying all about? And if we are given to wise
+thinking we must reach the conclusion that as we regard these
+attributes in others, so others must regard them in us.
+
+Nothing is more eloquent than a beautiful face. It is the open sesame
+to all our hearts. A sunshiny face melts away all opposition and finds
+the word "Welcome" written over the doorways where the face wearing a
+hard, unfriendly look sees only the warning, "No Admittance."
+
+But a smile that is only skin deep is not a true smile, but only a
+superficial grin. A true smile comes all the way from the heart. It
+bears its message of good will and friendliness. It is a mute
+salutation of "good luck and happy days to you!" and it makes whoever
+receives it better and stronger for the hour.
+
+The genuine smile is closely related to, and is a part of, that
+laughter which beams and sparkles in the eye and makes the little,
+cheerful, smiling lines in the face that are so quickly and easily
+distinguished from the lines that are the outward sign of an unhappy
+spirit within.
+
+Many centuries ago that wise and admirable philosopher, Epictetus,
+discovered that "happiness is not in strength, or wealth, or power; or
+all three. It lies in ourselves, in true freedom, in the conquest of
+every ignoble fear, in perfect self-government, in a power of
+contentment and peace, and the even flow of life, even in poverty,
+exile, disease and the very valley of the shadow."
+
+One of the happiest observers of life and its higher purposes--Anne
+Gilchrist--says: "I used to think it was great to disregard happiness,
+to press to a high goal, careless, disdainful of it. But now I see
+there is nothing so great as to be capable of happiness,--to pluck it
+out of each moment, and, whatever happens, to find that one can ride
+as gay and buoyant on the angry, menacing, tumultuous waves of life as
+on those that glide and glitter under a clear sky; that it is not
+defeat and wretchedness which comes out of the storms of adversity,
+but strength and calmness."
+
+The strongest incentive for the cultivation of a merry heart is that
+it is a duty as well as a delight. Sydney Smith has very wisely
+observed that "mankind is always happier for having been happy; so
+that if you make them happy now, you may make them happy twenty years
+hence by the memory of it."
+
+True happiness has about it no suggestion of selfishness. The
+genuinely happy person is the one who would have all the world to be
+happy. "Is there any happiness in the world like the happiness of a
+disposition made happy by the happiness of others?" asks Faber. "There
+is no joy to be compared with it. The luxuries which wealth can buy,
+the rewards which ambition can obtain, the pleasures of art and
+scenery, the abounding sense of health and the exquisite enjoyment of
+mental creations are nothing to this pure and heavenly happiness,
+where self is drowned in the blessings of others."
+
+One of the most heavenly attributes of happiness is that it begets
+more happiness not only in ourselves but in others about us. It has in
+it an uplift and a strength that enables us to build the stronger
+to-day against the distress that would beset us to-morrow.
+
+"Health and happiness" are terms that are so often closely linked in
+our speech and in our literature. One is almost a synonym for the
+other. Perhaps the true significance existing between the two would be
+more correctly stated were we to reverse the form in which they are
+usually set forth and say "happiness and health" instead. All
+observers of human nature and its many complex attributes are
+convinced that happiness is the fountain spring of health.
+
+One of our keenest students of life tells us that "small annoyances
+are the seeds of disease. We cannot afford to entertain them. They are
+the bacteria,--the germs that make serious disturbance in the system,
+and prepare the way for all derangements. They furnish the mental
+conditions which are manifested later in the blood, the tissues, and
+the organs, under various pathological names. Good thoughts are the
+only germicide. We must kill our resentment and regret, impatience and
+anxiety. Health will inevitably follow. Every thought that holds us in
+even the slightest degree to either anticipation or regret hinders, to
+some extent, the realization of our present good. It limits freedom.
+Life is in the present tense. Its significant name is Being."
+
+Whether we are happy or not depends much on our point of view. The
+disposition to look at everything through kind and beautiful eyes
+makes all the world more kind and beautiful. If we are gloomy within
+the whole world appears likewise. Perhaps the two ways of looking at
+things could not be better set forth than in these clever lines by E.
+J. Hardy:
+
+"How dismal you look!" said a bucket to his companion, as they were
+going to the well.
+
+"Ah!" replied the other, "I was reflecting on the uselessness of our
+being filled, for, let us go away never so full, we always come back
+empty."
+
+"Dear me! how strange to look on it that way!" said the other bucket;
+"now I enjoy the thought that however empty we come, we always go away
+full. Only look at it in that light and you will always be as cheerful
+as I am."
+
+The difference between the pessimist and the optimist is in their
+
+                POINT OF VIEW
+
+    Because each rose must have its thorn,
+      The pessimist Fate's plan opposes;
+    The optimist, more gladly born,
+      Rejoices that the thorns have roses.
+
+Since our happiness is merely the reflex influence of the happiness we
+make for others it would seem as though the joy of our lives dwells
+within our own keeping. "The universe," says Zimmerman, "pays every
+man in his own coin; if you smile, it smiles upon you in return; if
+you frown, you will be frowned at; if you sing, you will be invited
+into gay company; if you think, you will be entertained by thinkers;
+if you love the world, and earnestly seek for the good therein, you
+will be surrounded by loving friends, and nature will pour into your
+lap the treasures of the earth."
+
+All of this being true we must early learn to seize upon opportunities
+for making others happy if we, ourselves, would get the most and
+highest enjoyment from life. "There are gates that swing within your
+life and mine," writes "Amber," that good woman of sainted memory,
+"letting in rare opportunities from day to day, that tarry but a
+moment and are gone, like travelers bound for points remote. There is
+the opportunity to resist the temptation to do a mean thing! Improve
+it, for it is in a hurry, like the man whose ticket is bought and
+whose time is up. It won't be back this way, either, for opportunities
+for good are not like tourists who travel on return tickets. There is
+the opportunity to say a pleasant word to the ones within the sound of
+your voice. All of the priceless opportunities travel by lightning
+express and have no time to idle around the waiting-room. If we
+improve them at all it must be when the gate swings to let them
+through."
+
+It is in living not for ourselves alone but for others that we are to
+find the larger and truer happiness of life. Says Jenkin Lloyd Jones,
+"I would rather live in an alley, stayed all round with human loves,
+associations and ambitions, than dwell in a palace with drawbridge,
+moat, and portcullis, apart from the community about me, alienated
+from my neighbors, unable to share the woes and the joys of those with
+whom I divide nature's bounty of land and landscape, of air and sky."
+And along this same line of thinking, Charles Hargrove says: "Brother,
+sister, your mistake is to live alone in a crowded world, to think of
+yourself and your own belongings, and what is the matter with you,
+instead of trying to realize, what is the fact--that you are a member
+of a great human society, and that your true interests are one with
+those of the world which will go on much the same however it fare with
+you. Live the larger life, and you will find it the happier."
+
+So one of the chief aims of your life and of mine should be to find
+happiness and to see to it that others find it as well. And let us not
+wait to find happiness in one great offering, but let us discover it
+whenever and wherever we can. Let us carefully study our surroundings
+to see if it is not hiding all about us. "Very few things," says
+Lecky, "contribute so much to the happiness of life as a constant
+realization of the blessings we enjoy. The difference between a
+naturally contented nature and a naturally discontented one is one of
+the marked differences of innate temperament, but we can do much to
+cultivate that habit of dwelling on the benefits of our lot which
+converts acquiescence into a more positive enjoyment."
+
+Nothing can do more to add to our happiness of mind than to cultivate
+the gracious habit of being grateful for joys that come to us and to
+seek to appreciate the worth of the beneficent gifts that are ever
+being showered upon us. We are so apt to fall into the habit of
+accepting blessings as a matter of course and of failing to discover
+their wonderful value. How many of us, for example, have ever
+thoughtfully dwelt upon the priceless attributes of the air that is
+ever and always floating about us. In order that we may have a truer
+appreciation of its fine qualities and purposes let us read these
+words by Lord Avebury:
+
+"Fresh air, how wonderful it is! It permeates all our body, it bathes
+the skin in a medium so delicate that we are not conscious of its
+presence, and yet so strong that it wafts the odors of flowers and
+fruit into our rooms, carries our ships over the seas, the purity of
+sea and mountain into the heart of our cities. It is the vehicle of
+sound, it brings to us the voices of those we love and the sweet music
+of nature; it is the great reservoir of the rain which waters the
+earth, it softens the heat of day and the cold of night, covers us
+overhead with a glorious arch of blue, and lights up the morning and
+evening skies with fire. It is so exquisitely soft and pure, so gentle
+and yet so useful, that no wonder Ariel is the most delicate, lovable
+and fascinating of all Nature Spirits."
+
+It is only when we open our eyes to the beauty of the wonders about us
+that we see how much there is to contribute to our happiness if we
+will but open our hearts and let it come in. What a perpetual
+exaltation nature will afford us when we have cultivated the fine
+habit of looking upon it with the welcoming eyes through which Richard
+Jefferies beholds it: "The whole time in the open air," he tells us,
+"resting at mid-day under the elms with the ripple of heat flowing
+through the shadow; at midnight between the ripe corn and the
+hawthorne hedge or the white camomile and the poppy pale in the
+duskiness, with face upturned to the thoughtful heaven. Consider the
+glory of it, the life above this life to be obtained from constant
+presence with the sunlight and the stars."
+
+So let us cultivate the fine habit of finding joy and of shouting it
+to our friends and neighbors. Life seems bright to us when we are
+really glad of anything and we let gladness have voice to express
+itself. George MacDonald says "a poet is a man who is glad of
+something and tries to make other people glad of it, too." In the
+possession of this kindly spirit, at least, we must all strive to be
+poets.
+
+Emerson tells us that "there is one topic positively forbidden to all
+well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you
+have not slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or
+thunder stroke, I beseech you, by all the angels, to hold your peace,
+and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene
+and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans."
+
+The fine tonic effect of a bright, happy face smiling across the
+breakfast table is known to all the world. Better a feast of corn
+bread and a cheerful countenance than fruit cake and a sour
+temperament.
+
+So I feel very sure that you, my dear young lady, for whom these lines
+are written, are never going to appear at the breakfast table with
+aught other than a bright cheery face and a pleasant word for all
+about you. Some one has said that the first hour of the day is the
+critical one. Happy is the person who can wake with a song, or who can
+at least hold back the fears and the grumbles until a thought of
+gladness has established itself as the keynote of the day.
+
+"Assume a virtue, if you have it not," says Shakespeare. While as a
+rule it is deemed wrong to assume to possess any virtue that we do not
+possess, we may and no doubt should, at times, appear to be happy even
+though we may feel more like indulging in lamentations. To come to the
+breakfast table enumerating a list of real or imaginary ailments is a
+most ill-advised thing to do. We should endeavor to forget our
+troubles and above all we should be slow to give voice to them so that
+thereby they will be multiplied in the minds of others. It has been
+truly said that most people who are unhappy are really miserable and
+bring their misery to others because they allow the failures and
+discomforts to speak the first word in their souls. For misery is
+voluble and the little discomforts will turn us into their continual
+mouthpieces if we will give them a chance. But the truly thoughtful
+and considerate person will have none of them. Instead of displaying
+the flag of distress and surrender, the wiser method is to pull our
+courage and determination together and don
+
+             THE BETTER ARMOR
+
+      If through thick and through thin
+      You are eager to win,
+    Don't go shrouded in Fear and in Doubt,
+      But with Hope and with Truth
+      And the blue sky of Youth
+    Go through life with the sunny side out.
+
+So let us determine that we will cultivate the happy habit; for indeed
+even happiness is largely a habit. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is
+he." If he thinks trouble, he is very likely to find it. If he thinks
+sickness, he is likely to be ill. If he thinks unkind things, he is
+quite sure to put them into the deeds of his daily life. The thought
+is the architect's plans which the hands are likely to set about to
+build. To the one who thinks the weather is bad, it is sure to be
+disagreeable. To the one who seeks to find something pleasant about
+it, it is certain to offer some happy phases.
+
+We must all answer "yes" to this question asked by one of our fine
+writers on our social amenities: "Don't you get awfully tired of
+people who are always croaking? A frog in a big, damp, malarial pond
+is expected to make all the fuss he can in protest of his
+surroundings. But a man! Destined for a crown, and born that he may be
+educated for the court of a king! Placed in an emerald world with a
+hither side of opaline shadow, and a fine dust of diamonds to set it
+sparkling when winter days are flying; with ten million singing birds
+to make it musical, and twice ten million flowers to make it sweet;
+with countless stars to light it up with fiery splendor, and white,
+new moons to wrap it round with mystery; with other souls within it to
+love and make happy, and the hand of God to uphold it on its rushing
+way among the countless worlds that crowd its path; what right has man
+to find fault with such a world? When the woodtick shall gain a
+hearing, as he complains that the grand old century oak is unfit to
+shelter him, or the bluebird be harkened to when he murmurs that the
+horizon is off color, and does not match his wings, then, I think, it
+will be time for man to find fault with the appointments of the
+magnificent sphere in which he lives."
+
+Therefore let it be determined between us, right here and now, that
+come what may, we shall each of us endeavor to keep a merry heart and
+a pleasant face. As we love to see a happy expression on the faces of
+our parents, brothers, sisters and friends, so must they enjoy seeing
+a pleasant look overspreading our features. And with this good and
+kindly resolve in our minds it will never be difficult for us to
+decide whether we shall give to the good world about us the gladness
+or the gloom that is embodied in
+
+                SONG OR SIGH
+
+    If you were a bird and shut in a cage,
+      Now what would you better do,--
+    Would you grieve your throat with a sorry note
+      And mourn the whole day through;
+    Or would you swing and chirp and sing,
+      Though the world were warped with wrong,
+    Till you filled one place with the perfect grace
+      And gladness of your song?
+
+    If you were a man and shut in a world,
+      Now what would you better do,--
+    On a gloomy day, when skies were gray,
+      Would you be gloomy, too?
+    When crossed with care would you let despair
+      Life's happy hope destroy,
+    Or with a smile work on the while
+      You found the path to joy?
+
+[Illustration: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it.--Holmes.
+
+The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.--Elizabeth Barrett
+Browning.
+
+A gay, serene spirit is the source of all that is noble and good.
+--Schiller.
+
+Your manners will depend very much on what you frequently think on;
+for the soul is as it were tinged with the color and complexion of
+thought.--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
+
+Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff
+life is made of.--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+Be yourself, but make yourself in everything as delightful as you
+can.--Margaret E. Sangster.
+
+The tissue of the life to be we weave with colors all our own, and in
+the field of destiny we reap as we have sown.--Whittier.
+
+What must of necessity be done you can always find out beyond question
+how to do.--Ruskin.
+
+The doctrine of love, purity, and right living has, step by step, won
+its way into the hearts of mankind, and has filled the future with
+hope and promise.--William McKinley.
+
+Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us
+honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
+--Goethe.
+
+Every wish is a prayer with God.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
+
+Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.--Claudius.
+
+Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as want of heart.--Hood.
+
+Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
+time we fall.--Goldsmith.
+
+So use present pleasures that thou spoilest not future ones.--Seneca.
+
+A good manner springs from a good heart, and fine manners are the
+outcome of unselfish kindness.--Margaret E. Sangster.
+
+Reading and study are in no sense education, unless they may
+contribute to this end of making us feel kindly towards all
+creatures.--Ruskin.
+
+An hour in every day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits would, if
+properly employed, enable a person of ordinary capacity, to go far
+toward mastering a science.--Samuel Smiles.
+
+To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one
+does, but what one tries to do, that makes the soul strong and fit for
+noble career.--E. P. Tenney.
+
+He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses more, but
+he who loses spirit loses all.--S. A. Nelson.
+
+If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if
+not, you have infinite power against you.--Charles G. Gordon.
+
+Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
+To be and keep so is not the gift of a happy nature alone, but it is
+strength and heroism.--Jules Michelet.
+
+We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.--Bailey.
+
+Remember that everybody's business in the social system is to be
+agreeable.--Dickens.
+
+In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail.--Bulwer Lytton.
+
+Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but
+never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.--Lowell.
+
+The cheerful live longest in years, and afterward in our regards.
+--Bovee.
+
+How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, is that fine sense
+which men call Courtesy!--James T. Fields.
+
+Make each goal when reached, a starting point for further quest.
+--Browning.
+
+The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be
+as happy as kings.--Robert Louis Stevenson.
+
+God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.--Beecher.
+
+If you are acquainted with Happiness, introduce him to your neighbor.
+--Phillips Brooks.
+
+Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, live well; how long
+or short, permit to heaven.--Milton.
+
+The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
+--Chamfort.
+
+It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.--Joseph Roux.
+
+People glorify all sorts of bravery, except the bravery they might
+show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.--George Eliot.
+
+How active springs the mind that leaves the load of yesterday behind.
+--Pope.
+
+One of the most charming things in girlhood is serenity.--Margaret E.
+Sangster.
+
+Every generous nature desires to make the earning of an honest living
+but a means to the higher end of adding to the sum total of human
+goodness and human happiness.--Frances E. Willard.
+
+Attempt the end, and never stand in doubt; nothing's so hard but
+search will find it out.--Richard Lovelace.
+
+There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to
+love this life and live it as bravely and cheerfully and faithfully as
+we can.--Henry Van Dyke.
+
+He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.
+--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+Anxiety never yet successfully bridged over any chasm.--Ruffini.
+
+How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but
+by degrees?--Shakespeare.
+
+Duty determines destiny. Destiny which results from duty performed,
+may bring anxiety and perils, but never failure and dishonor.--William
+McKinley.
+
+If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
+--Emily Dickinson.
+
+No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it
+serviceable, until it has been read, and reread, and loved, and loved
+again.--Ruskin.
+
+Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of
+civilization.--Emerson.
+
+It is so easy to perceive other people's little absurdities, and so
+difficult to discover our own.--Ellen Thornycroft Fowler.
+
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+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+GOLDEN HABITS
+
+
+We often hear persons speaking of "the force of habit" as though it
+were something to be regretted. "Habit is second nature," is a saying
+that is included among the classic epigrams of men. That habits do
+become very strong, all the world has learned, sometimes to its sorrow
+and sometimes to its advantage and delight.
+
+For be it known that good habits are just as strong as bad habits and
+in that we should all feel a common joy and a sense of deliverance
+from wrong doing.
+
+The fact that a fixed habit is only a matter of long and gradual
+growth ought to be very much to our advantage. This very fundamental
+principle of their construction should result in giving us very many
+more good habits than bad habits. This happy conclusion is based on
+the supposition that while many of us are so constituted that it is
+possible we might, in some unguarded moment, do a wrong act, it is
+unlikely we could repeat the error so often and so long as to make the
+questionable action become a fixed habit.
+
+The doing of a wrong thing should result in convincing us, on sober
+second thought, that it was a mistake on our part to have permitted
+ourselves to have been led into uncertain, unhappy paths and we would
+then and there reinforce our moral strength and our determination that
+the wrong should not occur again.
+
+In doing right things, the conditions are quite reversed. Every good
+deed inspires us to still greater determination to do more of the same
+kind. Wrong deeds are, in most cases, committed in a moment of
+thoughtlessness when one's conscience, one's higher and better self,
+is momentarily off guard. Our good acts are performed with a full and
+proud realization of what we are doing and are followed by a grateful
+sense of retrospective pleasure, after they have been done.
+
+"Could the young," says Henry James, "but realize how soon they will
+become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to
+their conduct while in the plastic state. Nothing we ever do is, in
+strict scientific literateness, wiped out." One of our latter day
+philosophers tells us that "happiness is a matter of habit; and you
+had better gather it fresh every day or you will never get it at all."
+
+In speaking of the success he had achieved in life, Charles Dickens
+said: "I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have
+worked much harder and not succeeded half so well; but I never could
+have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order,
+and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one
+object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon
+its heels."
+
+When we come to study carefully the full meaning of the word "habit"
+we find it to be a very comprehensive term. In the sense in which it
+is here employed the dictionary defines it as being "a tendency or
+inclination toward an action or condition, which by repetition has
+become easy, spontaneous or even
+
+unconscious." From this definition it is easy to deduce the conclusion
+that one's habits are in fact one's manners, one's principles, one's
+mode of conduct; and a careful consideration of the theme finally
+brings one to a clear realization of the secret of
+
+              TRUE GENTILITY
+
+    One cannot from the world conceal
+      The current of his thought;
+    A word or action will reveal
+      The thing his brain hath wrought.
+
+    True goodness from within must come
+      And deeds, to be refined,
+    Their outer grace must borrow from
+      Politeness of the mind.
+
+Our manners are ourselves. They constitute our personality and it is
+by our personality that we are judged. If that is frank and pleasant
+and agreeable we shall not lack for friends.
+
+A person may be deficient in the charm of form or face but if the
+manners are perfect they will call forth admiration as nothing else
+could do.
+
+Our thoughts are the essential and impressive part of ourselves. "It
+is the spirit that maketh alive. The flesh profiteth nothing." We are
+told by Swedenborg that "every volition and thought of man is
+inscribed on his brain, for volition and thoughts have their
+beginnings in the brain, whence they are conveyed to the bodily
+members, wherein they terminate. Whatever, therefore, is in the mind
+is in the brain, and from the brain in the body, according to the
+order of its parts. Thus a man writes his life in his physique, and
+thus the angels discover his autobiography in his structure."
+
+Since good habits and pleasing manners are such important aids in the
+making of character and personality we should leave nothing undone to
+strengthen the better side of our lives. And since we all are
+constantly being acted upon by suggestion we should invite to our
+assistance anything that will tend to keep us in the most exemplary
+frame of mind.
+
+In addition to the spoken word of admonition from parents, teachers,
+and others honestly interested in our welfare we should reinforce our
+good resolves by reading good books and in framing for our own benefit
+a code of rules for our better conduct.
+
+It is considered to be a good plan to select a number of suitable
+quotations and display them in some manner where the eye must see them
+with frequency. A calendar with a daily quotation admirably serves
+this purpose. Oftentimes when a good thought is put into the mind in
+the early morning it tends to direct the course of our thinking
+throughout the day. The following quotations are offered only as
+suggestions. They can be added to indefinitely:
+
+    A man's own good breeding is the best security against other
+    people's ill manners.--Chesterfield.
+
+    Good breeding shows itself most when to an ordinary eye it appears
+    the least.--Addison.
+
+    Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we
+    converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred
+    in the company.--Swift.
+
+    Hail! ye small, sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do you make
+    the road of it.--Sterne.
+
+    Civility costs nothing and buys everything.--Lady Montague.
+
+    Evil communications corrupt good manners.--Bible.
+
+    No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage ground of
+    truth.--Lord Bacon.
+
+    They are never alone that are accompanied with noble
+    thoughts.--Sidney.
+
+    Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with
+    salt.--New Testament.
+
+    Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.--Shakespeare.
+
+    Honest labor bears a lovely face.--Dekker.
+
+    The gods give nothing really beautiful without labor and
+    diligence.--Xenophon.
+
+    The key to pleasure is honest work. All dishes taste good with that
+    sauce.--H. R. Haweis.
+
+    Work is as necessary for peace of mind as for health of
+    body.--Lord Avebury.
+
+Sir John Lubbock has said: "I cannot, however, but think that the
+world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the
+duty of Happiness, as well as the happiness of Duty, for we ought to
+be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is the
+most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."
+
+Surely we cannot include among good habits the habit of making those
+about us unhappy. Hence it is that they who are careless of the state
+of mind into which they throw those about them are not good mannered.
+While it is but simple kindness to allow our friends to sympathize in
+the great griefs that may overtake us, it is not kindness for us to be
+forever stirring them with all the real or fancied ills with which we
+can regale them. Either extreme is more or less absurd and
+unwarranted. Perhaps, as a rule, we thrust our troubles quite too
+willingly upon others. On the other hand, some of the peoples of the
+Orient we deem to be so ludicrously polite in matters of this nature
+as to almost arouse our mirth.
+
+An English writer in speaking of the Japanese says: "There must really
+have been a double portion of politeness bestowed upon these people
+who in the deepest domestic grief would smile and smile, so that a
+guest in the home might not be burdened with their sorrow. The habit
+is in striking contrast with the weeping and wailing, the mourning
+streamers, the hatbands, plumes, palls, black chargers, and funeral
+hearses with which we struggle to stir the envy, if not the hearts of
+all beholders!"
+
+In Japan, so we are told, manners are included in the public teaching
+of morality. Among our western peoples our public school boys would
+deem it strange if a master gave them an hour's instruction in the
+correct manner of behaving toward their father and mother or sisters.
+Yet such knowledge might be urgently needed and do good here as it
+does in Japan where it is counted the most vital instruction of all.
+Step by step the Japanese child is led along the course of behavior,
+learning how to stand up, sit down, bow, hang up its hat, and how to
+think of its parents, brothers and sisters, and of its country. Later
+on these lessons are repeated with illustrations from short stories,
+and still later by incidents from actual history and the lives of
+great men of all countries. Before the end of the course of
+instruction is reached all manner of virtues and points of behavior
+have been introduced, such as patriotism, cleanliness, and (especially
+in the case of girls) the proper way of advancing and retiring,
+offering and accepting things, sleeping and eating, visiting,
+congratulating and condoling, mourning and holding public meetings. So
+the school course continues from year to year, the elementary school
+course lasting four years and the secondary course four years more,
+and leading the boys and girls up to the study of benevolence, their
+duty to ancestors, to other people's property, other people's honor,
+other people's freedom, and, finally, to self-discipline, modesty,
+dignity, dress, labor, the treatment of animals, and the due relations
+of men and women, both of whom are to be regarded equally as "lords"
+of creation. From end to end of the long course of training, behavior
+rather than knowledge is insisted upon, even down to the tiniest
+detail of what our good great-grandmothers valued as deportment.
+
+To such scrupulous deportment and close attention to minuteness of
+habit, some objection can be raised, perhaps. "Some men's behavior,"
+said Bacon, "is like a verse wherein every syllable is measured," and
+he warned us that manners must be like apparel, "not too strait or
+point-device, but free for exercise or motion." However, it is better
+to err on the side of too much attention to our manners rather than to
+be thought careless of our persons and our behavior.
+
+Civilized peoples cannot help but be concerned with manners,
+refinement, good breeding, and in a more minute sense, with the forms
+of etiquette. It is these things that distinguish civilization from
+savagery, and so unmistakably lift the cultured person above the one
+who does not see fit to cultivate the grace of gentility.
+
+It has been truly said that we judge our neighbors severely by the
+breach of written or traditional laws, and choose our society, and
+even our friends, by the touchstone of courtesy. It is not an uncommon
+occurrence for a girl or a boy to win an advantageous position in
+life, not by superior mental or physical endowments but by a
+graciousness of manners that have smoothed for them the ways that lead
+to success.
+
+For some quite unwarranted reason society seems to have taken the
+position that we have a right to expect more from our girls than from
+our boys in the matter of good manners. This, however, is not the view
+held by those who know the true meaning of good breeding. The demand
+that every boy shall be a gentleman is as firm and binding as is that
+which says that every girl must be a gentle woman and a thorough lady.
+
+Every girl knows what is expected of her. Her parents, brothers,
+sisters, teachers, society and the world intend that she shall be good
+and gentle and gracious. They will be satisfied with nothing short of
+all that and it will be well for every girl to learn early in life to
+pursue only the paths that will lead into ways wherein these qualities
+of person and character may be found. So here and now it is timely to
+ask of the readers of these lines--
+
+           WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
+
+    What are you going to do, girls,
+      With the years that are hurrying on?
+    Do you mean to begin life's purpose to win
+      In the freshness and strength of the dawn?
+    The builders who build in the morning,
+      At even may joyfully rest,
+    Their victories won, as they watch the glad sun
+      Sink down in the beautiful west.
+
+    What are you going to do, girls,
+      With time as it ceaselessly flows?
+    Are you molding a heart that will pleasures impart
+      As perfume exhales from the rose?
+    Let all that is purest and grandest
+      In duty's fair wreath be entwined;
+    There is no other grace can illumine the face
+      Like the charm of a beautiful mind.
+
+A student of the subject of ethics must understand that the true
+spirit of good manners is very closely allied to that of good morals.
+It has been pointed out that no stronger proof of this assertion is
+required than the fact that the Messiah himself, in his great moral
+teachings, so frequently touches upon the subject of manners. He
+teaches that modesty is the true spirit of good behavior, and openly
+rebukes the forward manner of His followers in taking the upper seats
+at the banquet and the highest seats in the synagogues.
+
+The philosophers whose names are recorded in history, although they
+were, themselves, seldom distinguished for fine manners, did not fail
+to teach the importance of them to others. Socrates and Aristotle have
+left behind them a code of ethics that might easily be turned into a
+"Guide to the Complete Gentleman;" and Lord Bacon has written an essay
+on manners in which he reminds us that a stone must be of very high
+value to do without a setting.
+
+The motive in cultivating good manners should not be shallow and
+superficial. Lord Chesterfield says that the motive that makes one
+wish to be polite is a desire to shine among his fellows and to raise
+one's self into a society supposed to be better than his own. It is
+unnecessary to state that Lord Chesterfield's good manners, fine as
+they appear, do not bear the true stamp of genuineness. There is not
+the living person back of them possessing heart and character. They
+seem to him, in a measure, what a fine gown does to the wax figure in
+the dressmaker's window. True manners mean more than mannerisms. They
+cannot be taught entirely from a book in which there are sets of rules
+to be observed on any and every occasion. They are rather a cultivated
+method of thinking and feeling and the forming of a character that
+knows, intuitively, the nice and kind and appropriate thing to do
+without reference to what a printed rule of conduct may set forth.
+
+It is generally agreed that our best and only right motive in the
+cultivation of good manners should be to make ourselves better than we
+otherwise would be, to render ourselves agreeable to every one whom we
+may meet, and to improve, it may be, the society in which we are
+placed. With these objects in view, it is plainly as much a moral duty
+to cultivate one's manners as it is to cultivate one's mind, and no
+one can deny that we are better citizens when we observe the nicer
+amenities of society than we are when we pay no heed to them.
+
+Lord Bacon says: "Many examples may be put of the force of custom,
+both upon mind and body. Therefore, since custom is the principle
+magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good
+customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young
+years; this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early
+custom."
+
+So we see that our true characters are but the expression of our
+habits and of our manners. And we see that only those habits that are
+formed in the early years of life seem to fit us perfectly and
+naturally throughout all the years.
+
+It is an old saying and a homely one, but none the less true, that "it
+is hard to teach an old dog new tricks." So it is hard to acquire in
+later life the manners and graces that escape us in youth.
+
+Fortunate is the young girl who finds her lot is cast among the good
+influences of a cultured home. She has at hand the material from which
+to select all that she may need to build the fine character the world
+shall observe and admire. Such felicitous surroundings should teach
+her, first of all, to be very charitable and lenient toward others
+whose early years are lived among less advantageous surroundings. For
+if her culture does not in some ways influence and soften and modify
+her heart as well as her mind, its true purpose has been lost.
+
+Those whose earlier years are spent amid surroundings not so favorable
+for the forming of golden habits, must strive all the harder for the
+prize of gentility which they would obtain. And in this very struggle
+against adverse circumstances will be engendered a strength and a
+spirit of self-reliance that will be likely to prove a worthy
+equivalent for the loss of a more kindly and propitious environment.
+
+It is experience that develops character, and character is the one
+thing that distinguishes a life and makes it a definite and individual
+thing of supreme beauty.
+
+The character that is the most laboriously built is the most enduring.
+Golden habits that have been hammered out of our life experiences are
+to be implicitly relied upon. They have been tested at every point.
+They have been shaped out of the very necessity of one's surroundings.
+They are worth every effort that they have cost. The world will never
+know how much of its integrity, how much of its stability, how much of
+its beauty it owes to that which we are all so prone to call
+
+                   DRUDGERY
+
+    Dull drudgery, "gray angel of success;"
+      Enduring purpose, waiting long and long,
+    Headache or heartache, blent with sigh or song,
+    Forever delving mid the strife and stress:
+    Within the bleak confines of your duress
+      Are laid the firm foundations, deep and strong,
+      Whereon men build the right against the wrong,--
+    The toil-wrought monuments that lift and bless.
+
+    The coral reefs; the bee's o'erflowing cells;
+      The Pyramids; all things that shall endure;
+    The books on books wherein all wisdom dwells,
+      Are wrought with plodding patience, slow and sure.
+    Yours the time-tempered fashioning that spells
+      Of chaos, order, perfect and secure.
+
+[Illustration: GEORGE ELIOT]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+I think that there is success in all honest endeavor, and that there
+is some victory gained in every gallant struggle that is made.--Dickens.
+
+Every noble work is at first impossible.--Carlyle.
+
+Truth is a strong thing, let man's life be true.--Browning.
+
+Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous--a spirit
+all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.
+--Carlyle.
+
+Pass no day idly; youth does not return.--Chinese Proverb.
+
+If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a
+lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the
+angels must give.--George MacDonald.
+
+Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good manners for its
+foundation.--Bulwer Lytton.
+
+The common earth is common only to those who are deaf to the voices
+and blind to the visions which wait on it and make its flight a music
+and its path a light.--H. W. Mabie.
+
+The truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamond-fashion, with
+many facets answering to the many-planed aspects of the world about
+them.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.
+
+It seems to me there is no maxim for a noble life like this: Count
+always your highest moments your truest moments.--Phillips Brooks.
+
+We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence
+to do good to others with them.--Joseph Cook.
+
+Believe me, girls, on the road of life you and I will find few things
+more worth while than comradeship.--Margaret E. Sangster.
+
+Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, and so make life,
+death, and the vast forever, one grand, sweet song.--Charles Kingsley.
+
+And to get peace, if you do _want_ it, make for yourself nests of
+pleasant thoughts.--Ruskin.
+
+When one is so dedicated to his mission, so full of a great purpose
+that he has no thought for self, his life is one of unalloyed joy--the
+joy of self-sacrifice.--Lyman Abbott.
+
+Morality is conformity to the highest standard of right and virtuous
+action, with the best intention founded on principle.--A. E. Winship.
+
+To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can
+bring; to be a friend is to have a solemn and tender education of soul
+from day to day.--Anna Robertson Brown.
+
+When it comes to doing a thing in this world, I don't ask myself
+whether I like it or not, but, what's the best way to get it done.
+--Ellen Glasgow.
+
+Do you ask to be the companion of nobles? Make yourself noble, and you
+shall be. Do you long for the conversation of the wise? Learn to
+understand it, and you shall hear it.--Ruskin.
+
+There is no cosmetic for homely folks like character. Even the
+plainest face becomes beautiful in noble and radiant moods.--Newell
+Dwight Hillis.
+
+A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our
+prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.--Thoreau.
+
+A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and
+treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.--Milton.
+
+Happiness is the natural flower of duty.--Phillips Brooks.
+
+By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
+--Bayard Taylor.
+
+It is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much.
+--George Eliot.
+
+To be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need, to be
+a cup of strength to a human soul in a crisis of weakness, is to know
+the glory of life.--Hugh Black.
+
+It is not the result of our acts that makes them brave and noble, but
+the acts themselves and the unselfish love that moved us to do them.
+--R. L. Stevenson.
+
+Use thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it
+hath forsaken thee.--Walter Raleigh.
+
+It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity.--Abbott.
+
+If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.--Chinese
+Proverb.
+
+For him who aspires, and for him who loves his fellow-beings, life may
+lead through the thorns, but it never stops in the desert.--Anonymous.
+
+Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes; some falls are means the happier to
+arise.--William Shakespeare.
+
+Be resolutely and faithfully what you are, be humbly what you aspire
+to be.--Thoreau.
+
+If people only knew their own brothers and sisters, the Kingdom of
+Heaven would not be far off.--George MacDonald.
+
+The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angel.
+--Dickens.
+
+If every day we can feel, if only for a moment, the realization of
+being our best selves, you may be sure that we are succeeding.--Bliss
+Carman.
+
+If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's
+stone.--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+He only is advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, whose
+blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into
+living peace.--Ruskin.
+
+The fine art of living, indeed, is to draw from each person his best.
+--Lilian Whiting.
+
+Reflect upon your present blessings--of which every man has many--not
+on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.--Dickens.
+
+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
+elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.--Thoreau.
+
+Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds.--Congreve.
+
+The microscope gives us a world, a universe, a single drop of
+dew. So also there is a world in a single profound, earnest
+meditation.--Madame Swetchine.
+
+Better is it to have a small portion of good sense, with humility and
+a slender understanding, than great treasures of science, with vain
+self-complacency.--Thomas a Kempis.
+
+There is one road to peace and that is truth.--Shelley.
+
+He hath from his childhood conversed with books and bookmen; and
+always being where the frankincense of the temple was offered, there
+must be some perfume remaining about him.--Thomas Fuller.
+
+Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great.
+--Demosthenes.
+
+The turmoil of the world will always die, if we set our faces to climb
+heavenward.--Hawthorne.
+
+If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or
+woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.--George MacDonald.
+
+Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people but to get
+ahead of ourselves.--Maltbie D. Babcock.
+
+The narrow kingdom of to-day is better worth ruling over than the
+widest past or future.--Edith Wharton.
+
+There's always a bloom on the world if one looks.--Abby M. Roach.
+
+The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.--George Eliot.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
+
+
+"Nothing succeeds like success."
+
+Perhaps the true meaning of this old French proverb is that once we
+have a measure of success we are the more likely to achieve still more
+victories. The discovery that our strength, perseverance and
+determination have been capable of bending circumstances to our will
+and bringing to fulfillment the end for which we have wished and
+worked, gives us renewed courage and inspiration for the undertaking
+of new and larger duties.
+
+We learn to do by doing. Achievement leads to still greater
+achievement. Orison Swett Marden, one of the world's wisest of
+observers and deepest of philosophers, says, "The world makes way for
+the determined man." And so it does for the determined woman, or the
+determined girl or boy.
+
+Regarding this thing called "Success," too many of us are apt to think
+that it means some one, isolated, remarkable achievement, that comes
+at the end of a long period of striving in some particular field of
+endeavor. This is not entirely true. Every great success is made of
+very many lesser successes that have preceded it. Just as the cap-stone
+at the top of the tallest building is held in its lofty position
+by every stone beneath it even down to the ones deep in the earth at
+the very foundation of the structure, which are indeed perhaps the
+most important of all.
+
+So the thing which the world is pleased to call "Success" is built up
+by a thousand little successes on which it must finally rest. The
+building of a life success begins with the earliest dawn of being and
+must be carried on with as much care as a mason would give to the
+laying of the walls of a structure designed to stand for years. The
+mason knows that if he does not lay his foundations deep and firm,
+that if the walls are not kept straight and plumb, that if he puts
+faulty bricks or stones in the walls, the building will not be a
+success. The work at every stage must be a success or the completed
+structure must be a failure.
+
+So it is in life. If our moments are not successful, the hours can
+never be so, and the days and years can but enlarge upon and emphasize
+their failure. "Every day is a fresh beginning, every morn is a world
+made new," says Susan Coolidge. There is a chance for attaining
+success every hour and day of our lives.
+
+Success is not alone for the great men of the world who find new
+continents, explore the poles, navigate the air, write great poems,
+paint great pictures, or who amass fortunes of millions of dollars.
+No, success is for any and all of us, here and now, any and all the
+time.
+
+Were you prepared in your studies at school to-day? If you were, that
+was success.
+
+Have you your music lesson well in hand for this afternoon? If so,
+that means success.
+
+Have you been kind to everybody to-day, and with a pleasant word and a
+willing hand, done all you could to make life pleasanter and happier
+for those about you? If so, that is a fine moral success. And if you
+will multiply the achievements of to-day by the days that are in the
+years before you, you can see the result that you have a reason to
+expect, as your life's work.
+
+Success means doing all that we can do as well as we can do it. It may
+be work or it may be play. It may be something of seemingly little
+account or it may be something of importance, but unless we do it
+well, and to the best of our ability it will not be a success.
+
+"Every day," says Bunsen, "ought to be begun as a serious work,
+standing alone in itself, and yet connected with the past and the
+future." And Ruskin still further emphasizes this thought in the
+words: "Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life,
+and every setting sun be to you as its close; then let every one of
+these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for
+others."
+
+We begin to achieve success when we do the things that are necessary
+for such achievement. Huxley expressed the whole secret of the matter
+when he said: "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is
+the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it
+ought to be done, as it ought to be done, whether you like to do it or
+not."
+
+A good life, which is but another name for success, does not come by
+accident. Fortune may seem to favor it but it is the disposition to
+seize upon the opportunities that present themselves that make some
+lives seem more blest with "good chances" than others.
+
+Self cultivation is the secret of most all attainments in the realm of
+human endeavor. As a matter of fact, all that others can do for us is
+as nothing to that which we may do for ourselves. Persons who do
+things usually have to work for results, or they have at some time had
+to work to acquire the habits that later on make it seem so easy for
+them to do fine things. "We think," says J. C. Van Dyke, "because the
+completed work looks easy or reads easy, that it must have been done
+easily. But the geniuses of the world have all put upon record their
+conviction that there is more virtue in perspiration than in
+inspiration. The great poets, whether in print or in paint, have spent
+their weeks and months--yes, years--composing, adjusting, putting in
+and taking out. They have known what it is to 'lick things into
+shape,' to labor and be baffled, to despair and to hope anew."
+
+With the dawning of every morning, life comes bringing to us a new and
+wonderful day to employ it as we will. Shall it be a fine, gratifying
+success, or shall it be a failure? Shall it be part success and part
+failure? There can be no doubt about it being a matter that is very
+largely in our own keeping.
+
+              MORNING GATES
+
+    Each golden dawn presents two gates
+       That open to the day;
+    Through one a path of joy awaits,
+       Through one a weary way.
+    Choose well, for by that choice is willed
+       If ye shall be distressed
+    At eventide, or richly filled
+       With strength and peace and rest.
+
+"Every true life," says J. R. Miller, "should be a perpetual climbing
+upward. We should put our faults under our feet, and make them steps
+on which to lift ourselves daily a little higher.... We never in this
+world get to a point where we may regard ourselves as having reached
+life's goal, as having attained the loftiest height within our reach;
+there are always other rounds of the ladder to climb."
+
+So we know that the purpose of life is not to make a failure of it.
+And we know that we cannot make it a success unless we work toward
+that end. "The first great rule is, we must do something--that life
+must have a purpose and an aim--that work should be not merely
+occasional and spasmodic, but steady and continuous," says Lecky.
+"Pleasure is a jewel which will retain its luster only when it is in a
+setting of work, and a vacant life is one of the worst of pains,
+though the islands of leisure that stud a crowded, well-occupied life
+may be among the things to which we look back with the greatest
+delight."
+
+There can be no interest where there is no purpose. How tiresome it
+would very soon become if we were compelled to make idle, useless
+marks upon paper, without any design whatsoever. But to be able to
+draw pictures is a delight that no one can forego. "The most pitiable
+life is the aimless life," says Jenkin Lloyd Jones. "Heaven help the
+man or woman, the boy or girl, who is not interested in anything
+outside of his or her own immediate comfort and that related thereto,
+who eats bread to make strength for no special cause, who pursues
+science, reads poetry, studies books, for no earthly or heavenly
+purpose than mere enjoyment or acquisition; who goes on accumulating
+wealth, piling up money, with no definite or absorbing purpose to
+apply it to anything in particular."
+
+Perhaps we expect to-day, more than men have at any other time in the
+world's history, that girls as well as boys, must look forward to
+doing something definite in life. It is not deemed sufficient for
+anyone simply "to be." The whole world is now living the verb "to do."
+The grace, strength, beauty and worth of womanhood is being enhanced
+with the constantly enlarging sphere of women's work. The primitive,
+almost heathen, notion that the feminine sex constituted a handicap in
+the achieving of great success in a great majority of the fields of
+human endeavor is rapidly fading away. It can no longer stand in the
+light of the brilliant achievements women are making everywhere.
+Indeed, men are becoming well convinced that their presumed supremacy
+in many of the world's spheres of work is being successfully
+challenged at every point. So general is this experience becoming that
+the present status of things might well be set forth somewhat after
+the following style:
+
+              MAN, POOR MAN!
+
+    The question used to be, 't is true,
+    "What tasks are there for girls to do?"
+    But now we've reached an epoch when
+    We ask: "What is there left for men?"
+
+    They'll keep enlarging "woman's sphere"
+    Till man, poor, shrinking man, we fear,
+    Must grow quite useless, after while,
+    And go completely out of style.
+
+This piece of frivolity can well be pardoned on account of its
+absurdity. The great work of the world is so broad, so deep, so high,
+that it calls for the best endeavors of all girls and boys, women and
+men. That the door of opportunity is henceforth to be open to all is
+an assurance that the work is to be more grandly and beautifully done
+than ever before. What women may do in the years to come is
+wonderfully set forth by what women have done in the past. All history
+is filled with the splendid achievements of the women of the world. A
+girl of to-day will find no reading more helpful and inspiring than
+the lives of such noble women as Martha Washington, Queen Victoria,
+Sally Bush--Abraham Lincoln's good step-mother--Elizabeth Barrett
+Browning, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Miss Louisa Alcott, Laura
+Bridgman, Charlotte Cushman, Maria Mitchell, Lady Franklin, Mrs. Julia
+Ward Howe, and Florence Nightingale.
+
+If the girls of to-day are to have larger rewards in the world's work,
+they must fit themselves for the larger responsibilities. Every
+prudent girl will, of course, talk over the prospect of her future
+years with her parents, her brothers and sisters, her teachers, or
+with mature and responsible friends. So very, very much depends on
+laying the right foundations. But there are many qualities that must
+constitute parts of every enduring foundation.
+
+Attention, application, accuracy, method, punctuality, good behavior,
+modesty, gentility, enlightenment, all of these and more are essential
+to success and for the highest achievement of the true purpose of
+living.
+
+It has been well said that it is the repetition of little acts which
+constitutes not only the sum of human character, but which determines
+the character of nations; and where men or nations have broken down,
+it will almost invariably be found that neglect of little things was
+the rock on which they were wrecked.
+
+Every human being has duties to be performed, and, therefore, has need
+of cultivating the capacity for doing them--whether the sphere of
+action be the management of a household, the conduct of a trade or a
+profession, or the government of a nation.
+
+The one fixed truth in the matter of character-building is the fact
+that steady attention to the little matters of detail lies at the very
+foundation of human progress.
+
+The splendid trees that lift their branches heavenward depend for
+their sustenance on the tiny thread-like roots that come into very
+close relations with the soil and can thus take in the nourishment
+needed for the making of growth. This, the larger roots have not the
+capacity for doing. So in the growth of the human intellect and human
+character, it is the little actions, day by day, that really do the
+permanent building. With patient purpose to do successfully the many
+little tasks that confront us we can later on achieve the larger
+success awaiting us.
+
+The world's history is full of the triumphs of those who have had to
+struggle from beginning to end for recognition. Carey, the great
+missionary, began life as a shoemaker; the chemist Vanquelin was the
+son of a peasant; the poet Burns was a farmer boy and a day laborer;
+Ben Jonson was a bricklayer; Livingstone, the traveler and explorer,
+was a weaver; Abraham Lincoln was a "rail-splitter" and a farmer boy.
+
+At the plow, on the bench, at the loom, these men dreamed of the
+future greatness, and step by step, day by day, they persevered until
+they won the full measure of success.
+
+The great and good women of the world have won their distinction in
+the same manner. They cultivated the sterling qualities that made for
+success. They acquired the manners that attracted toward them help and
+strength of others interested in good causes and those struggling to
+advance them.
+
+And the girl who is reading these lines, can, if she will, make her
+life a happy success. She may be praised by the world or it may be by
+the small circle of friends with whom she comes in contact. Her name
+may never be written in history but it may be fondly spoken by
+parents, sisters, brothers, schoolmates, friends. In a thousand
+gracious ways she can make the hours, days and years good and golden
+for her own precious self and for all who know her. She must be
+thoughtful and intelligently alert to the opportunities lying all
+about her ready to be fashioned into shining deeds. She must know that
+she is a precious craft on the sea of life and that she must not be
+permitted to drift from the harbor of youth and of home without a life
+pilot. And this pilot should be her own conscience, hedged about with
+the learning, the good breeding, the fine character that she herself,
+under proper guidance, must cultivate through the impressionable years
+of childhood and maidenhood. If she so wills it, beauty and grace and
+true worth are all hers. And let her greet and go forth in the
+freshness of each golden day, as indeed, she must greet life, itself,
+with a glad, hopeful, helpful
+
+               MORNING PRAYER
+
+    Oh, may I be strong and brave, to-day,
+       And may I be kind and true,
+    And greet all men in a gracious way,
+    With frank good cheer in the things I say,
+       And love in the deeds I do.
+
+    May the simple heart of a child be mine,
+       And the grace of a rose in bloom;
+    Let me fill the day with a hope divine
+    And turn my face to the sky's glad shine,
+       With never a cloud of gloom.
+
+    With the golden levers of love and light
+       I would lift the world, and when,
+    Through a path with kindly deeds made bright,
+    I come to the calm of the starlit night,
+       Let me rest in peace. Amen.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
+gathered in this section.]
+
+He who works for sweetness and light works to make reason and the will
+of God prevail.--Matthew Arnold.
+
+Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration
+for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich
+and beautify our life.--Phillips Brooks.
+
+Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a
+faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.--Barrow.
+
+Good manners are part of good morals.--Whately.
+
+After all, the kind of world one carries about within one's self is
+the important thing, and the world outside takes all its grace, color
+and value from that.--Lowell.
+
+In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme
+excellence is simplicity.--Longfellow.
+
+The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.--Bovee.
+
+Never mind if you cannot do all things just as well as you would like
+to. It is only necessary to do things just as well as you can.
+--Patrick Flynn.
+
+Not so much beautiful features as a beautiful soul can make a
+beautiful face.--Margaret E. Sangster.
+
+There is a marvelous power in a well-defined individuality.--Joe
+Mitchell Chapple.
+
+Resolution always gives us courage.--A. E. Winship.
+
+Of all fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that has
+gone is the most fruitless.--Dickens.
+
+You can never be wise unless you love reading.--Johnson.
+
+The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress
+and all moral development.--Confucius.
+
+Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.--Ruskin.
+
+It is not a lucky word, this same impossible; no good comes to those
+who have it so often in their mouth.--Carlyle.
+
+I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.--Shakespeare.
+
+Youth, all possibilities are in its hands.--Longfellow.
+
+Thought is deeper than all speech.--Cranch.
+
+People influence us who have no business to do it, simply because we
+have neglected to train ourselves to attend to our own affairs.
+--A. E. Winship.
+
+As the heart, so is the life. The within is ceaselessly becoming the
+without.--James Allen.
+
+I have faith in the people.--Abraham Lincoln.
+
+Of all the propensities which teach mankind to torment themselves,
+that of causeless fear is the most irritating, busy, painful and
+pitiable.--Walter Scott.
+
+He who cannot smile ought not to keep a shop.--Chinese Proverb.
+
+Common sense bows to the inevitable and makes use of it.--Wendell
+Phillips.
+
+If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
+experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope
+your guardian genius.--Addison.
+
+Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.--Bovee.
+
+It is generally the idle who complain they cannot find time to do that
+which they fancy they wish.--Lubbock.
+
+What ardently we wish we soon believe.--Young.
+
+Nature never stands still, nor souls neither; they ever go up or go
+down.--Julia C. R. Dorr.
+
+Thought alone is eternal.--Owen Meredith.
+
+Only those live who do good.--Tolstoi.
+
+The greatest truths are the simplest.--Hare.
+
+Many people owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous
+difficulties.--Spurgeon.
+
+Thought by thought piled, till some great truth is loosened.
+--Shelley.
+
+The child's reasoning powers are, as it were, the wings with which he
+will eventually have to fly.--Landon.
+
+Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be.
+Custom will render it easy and agreeable.--Pythagoras.
+
+Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
+--Richter.
+
+Memory is the treasure-house of the mind.--Fuller.
+
+Habit is an internal principle which leads us to do easily, naturally,
+and with growing certainty, what we do often.--Webster.
+
+The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone
+in your heart--this you will build your life by, this you will
+become.--James Allen.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+By MARGARET E. SANGSTER
+
+HAPPY SCHOOL DAYS
+
+A Book for Girls
+
+In this book, Mrs. Sangster, the popular friend of all girls, writes
+to them charmingly and sympathetically of the things nearest to their
+hearts. The book will delight every girl.
+
+It ought to reach the hands of every girl.--St. Paul Pioneer Press.
+
+The book is as fascinating as a story.--Des Moines Register and Leader.
+
+Every girl's mother ought to make her a present of this book.
+--St. Louis Times.
+
+Youthful and adult readers alike will enjoy and commend this book.
+--Chicago Record-Herald.
+
+Chatty and with many a merry anecdote the book is as beguiling as a
+romance.--San Francisco Chronicle.
+
+A charming book pervaded with the spirit of sweet friendliness,
+complete comprehension and joyous helpfulness.--Chicago News.
+
+An interesting, suggestive, sensible book, in which Mrs. Sangster is
+at her best. It is a book of great worth, and whoever extends its
+usefulness by increasing its readers is a public benefactor.
+--Journal of Education, Boston.
+
+Handsome cover. Cloth, 12mo. $1.00
+
+FORBES & COMPANY
+PUBLISHERS--CHICAGO
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+By NIXON WATERMAN
+
+"BOY WANTED"
+
+A book of jolly, sparkling, invigorating counsel, in prose and verse,
+that any girl or boy will read with interest. It will also please
+their parents and teachers.
+
+Should be read by all boys, and girls, too.--Detroit News.
+
+"Boy Wanted" is an unusual achievement.--San Francisco Call.
+
+It is clever, cheery and full of sound ideas.--Chicago
+Record-Herald.
+
+Its message is earnest and thrilling. Full of inspiration and
+encouragement.--Pittsburg Gazette.
+
+A very bright and stimulating book on making the most of opportunities.
+--Montreal Daily Witness.
+
+Strongly written. A good book to place in the hands of any boy of any
+age up to eighty.--Denver Republican.
+
+It is the talk of a big brother to a younger one on a tramp off
+together. A mine of condensed inspiration.--Boston Advertiser.
+
+The book is beautifully made. It is handsomely bound and illustrated
+and has some novel typographical features.--Boston Globe.
+
+Illustrated. Attractive Cover. Cloth, 8vo. $1.00
+
+FORBES & COMPANY
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