sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues.

LUCY LABCOM.

YET ere we part, one lesson I can leave you

For every day
Be good

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever

One grand sweet song.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

THEN take this honey for the bitterest cup:
There is no failure, save in giving up;
No real fall so long as one still tries,

For seeming setbacks make the strong men wise.
There's no defeat, in truth, save from within;
Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win.

A RHYME OF THE SEASON

TAIN' no use complainin'

While you's travellin' along.
Keep yoh voice in trainin'

Foh to sing a little song.

Tain' no use o' sighin'

In a melancholy style.

You kin weep wifout half tryin';
It's some credit when you smile.

So we'll celebrate Thanksgivin'

As we've often done befo'.
Thankful dat we's livin'

If we ain' foh nothin' mo.

NEVER to tire; never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart, to hope always; like God, to love always-this is our duty.

AMIEL.

Ir matters little where I was born, or if my parents were rich or poor; but whether I live an honest man and hold my integrity firm in my clutch, I tell you, my brother, as plain as I can-it matters

much.

BETTER stop dis kickin'

Doesn't help a bit

Kin' o' weather what you has
Is all you's gwinter git.

EMERSON.

RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE

THREE ounces are necessary, first of patience,
Then of repose and peace; of conscience

A pound entire is needful:

Of pastimes of all sorts, too,

Should be gathered as much as the hand can hold; Of pleasant memory and of hope three good drachms There must be at least. But they should moistened be With a liquor made from true pleasures which rejoice the heart.

Then of love's magic drops a few—

But use them sparingly, for they may bring a flame Which naught but tears can drown.

Grind the whole and mix therewith of merriment an

ounce

To even. Yet all this may not bring happiness
Except in your orisons you lift your voice

To Him who holds the gift of health.

Written by MARGARET of Navarre in 1500.

RULE FOR HAPPINESS

SOMETHING to do,

Some one to love,

Something to hope for.

HAPPINESS is a fact, not an attainment.

KANT.

THE GAMBLER.

CHARACTER is the basis of happiness, and happi

ness is the sanction of character.

WE should tell ourselves once for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power.

MAETERLINCK.

WHETHER any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself.

GEORGE L. MERRIAM.

THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS

THE moment we set about the task of making every human being we come in contact with better for knowing us more cheerful, more courageous, and with greater faith in the kindness of God and manthat moment we begin to attain the third purpose of life-personal happiness.

Would you possess the magic secret of the alchemist which transforms all things to gold?

It is unselfishness-or, to use a better word, selfless

ness.

He who goes forth bent upon being always kind, always helpful, in the little daily events of life, will find all skies tinted with gold, all his nights set with

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

JOSH BILLINGS.

THE happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts.

MARCUS AURELIUS.

GENEROSITY is the investment from which we clip

the coupons of happiness.

FOUR TRACK NEWS.

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Ir I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing. My optimism rests on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to co-operate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that best a part of my life.