OPTIMISM

GET all the good there is today,
Don't fret about to-morrow.
There's trouble 'round us all the time,
What need is there to borrow?

Look on the bright side every time,
Don't waste your time repining
When any cloud looks dark and dull,
Turn out the silver lining.

SOMERVILLE "JOURNAL"

OPTIMISM is one of the signs of good digestion.

THERE's never a trouble that comes to stay;
There's never a grievance but fades away;
Forget the heart-ache and bravely lend
A helping hand to some sadder friend.

AND now the mists are lifting-
The tides are rushing in;

'Tis sunrise on the mountains

Lo! Life is yet to win!

WHAT do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to others?

GEORGE ELIOT.

WHAT'S the use in living if you can't help a fellow

once in a while?

J. E. S.

ALL THINGS COME RIGHT

ALL things come right, and be it soon or late,
All things come right at last to compensate
For all the petty heartaches of today,
For all the little failures on our way.
And all our seeming sorrows it appears
Are really blessings in a mask of tears.
So if success be tardy at our call,
It is to test our courage, that is all.
And in the end each heart will seek its rest
Beside the one it always loved the best.
The darkest hour holds the brightest light.
And all things come right.

REYNALE S. PICKERING, IN "THE REader.'

Used by special permission of the publishers,
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

OUT of the shadows of night

The world rolls into light:

It is daybreak everywhere.

LONGFELLOW.

LET us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

J. R. LOWELL.

BEHIND the night there is plenty of light, and things are all right-and I know it.

NOTHING is ever so bad, but that it might be worse.

MORNING

THE year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in His Heaven-
All's right with the world!

ROBERT BROWNING.

BUT ONCE

I SHALL pass through this world but once. Any good 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 or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

A. B. HEGEMAN.

ONE day at a time!

It's a wholesome rhyme;
A good one to live by,

A day at a time!

HELEN HUNT JACKSON.

AN aim in life is the only fortune worth the having; and it is to be found in the heart itself.

NOW

IF you have hard work to do,

Do it now.

Today the skies are clear and blue,
Tomorrow clouds may come in view,
Yesterday is not for you;

Do it now.

If you have a song to sing,
Sing it now.

Let the notes of gladness ring

Clear as song of bird in spring,

Let every day some music bring;
Sing it now.

If you have kind words to say,
Say them now.

Tomorrow may not come your way,

Do a kindness while you may,
Loved ones will not always stay;

Say them now.

If you have a smile to show,
Show it now.

Make hearts happy,-roses grow,
Let the friends around you know
The love you feel before they go;

Show it now.

CHARLES R. SKINNER.

See the wild bird on the wing,

Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like sighin', sing,
Keep a-goin'.

FRANK L. STANTON.

From Songs from Dixie Land. Copyright 1900. Used by special permission of the Publishers.

The Bobbs-Merrill Co.