Who sings of a bright tomorrow,
Because of the clouds of today.
His life is a beautiful sermon,

And this is the lesson to me-
Meet trials with smiles and they vanish;
Face cares with a song and they flee.

A RECIPE FOR SANITY

ARE you worsted in a fight?
Laugh it off.

Are you cheated of your right?
Laugh it off.

Don't make tragedy of trifles,
Don't shoot butterflies with rifles-
Laugh it off.

Does your work get into kinks?
Laugh it off.

Are you near all sorts of brinks?
Laugh it off.

If it's sanity you're after,

There's no recipe like laughter—
Laugh it off.

HENRY R. ELLIOT IN "THE CENTURY," NOV. 1906.

By permission of Century Co.

COMMON sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the

world calls wisdom.

COLERIDGE.

LET US SMILE

THE thing that goes the farthest toward making life worth while,

That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile;

The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves

its fellow men

Will drive away the cloud of gloom and coax the sun again;

It's full of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent

It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.

There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile;

It always has the same good look-it's never out

of style;

It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue;

The dimples of encouragement are good for me

and you.

It pays a higher interest for it is merely lent

It's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost a cent.

A smile comes very easy-you can wrinkle up with cheer

A hundred times before you can squeeze out a soggy tear.

It ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug,

And always leaves an echo that is very like a

hug.

So, smile away. Folks understand what by a smile is meant,

It's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost a

cent.

BALTIMORE "AMERICAN"

ALWAYS laugh when you can;

It is a cheap medicine.

Merriment is a philosophy not well understood.

It is the sunny side of existence.

WHY in the world do you want to carry

BYRON.

Things that annoy and harass and harry?
Stop them and drop them, a new day is here,
Squeeze a laugh from it instead of a tear.

HERBERT KAUFMAN.

THERE is no medicine equal to a merry laugh—

well mixed with fresh air.

HUBBARD.

A LAUGH is worth a thousand groans in any market.

CHARLES LAMB.

KEEP HUSTLING

You may strike a day or two
When the world looks very blue;

Keep hustling.

Good hard work kills mighty few,

Probably 'twill not hurt you;

Keep hustling.

If you have a willing hand,

Orders you are sure to land;

Keep hustling.

If the merchant turns you down
Do not leave him with a frown;
Keep hustling.

If "that draft" does not arrive,

Don't you fret; you will survive;

Keep hustling.

GEORGE LOARTS.

I WISH to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

PASS IT ON

HAVE you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;

'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;

Let it travel down the years,

Let it wipe another's tears,
Till in heav'n the deed appears―
Pass it on.

Did you hear the loving word,
Pass it on;

Like the singing of a bird?
Pass it on;

Let its music live and grow,

Let it cheer another's woe;

You have reap'd what others sow,
Pass it on.

Be not selfish in thy greed,

Pass it on;

Look upon thy brother's need,

Pass it on;

Live for self, you live in vain;

Live for Christ, you live again;

Live for Him, with Him you reign—

Pass it on.

REV. HENRY BURTON.