Thoughts." Robert Louis says, "Man liveth not by bread alone, but principally by catchwords,” and it may be that you will find within this "bundle" some catchword that shall both cheer and help you on your daily journey. If you have laid away in your memory any quotations that belong by right in this book, the editor will be glad to have the privilege of considering them. Meanwhile he gives you hail, and wishes you "Good cheer!" as we go our separate ways E. O. G. The Book of Good Cheer JUST BEING HAPPY UST being happy is a fine thing to do; Is largely in the choosing, And just being happy is brave work and true. Just being happy helps other souls along; If other skies you brighten By just being happy with a heart full of song. -Ripley D. Saunders. ET the howlers howl, And the prowlers prowl, There is plenty of light, And I know it. n A PRAYER OW I get me up to work, I pray the Lord I may not shirk; If I should die before the night, I pray the Lord my work's done right. -Amora Fitch. I All AM bigger than anything that can happen to me. my door. I am in the house and I have the key. . T is not raining rain to me, Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day It is not raining rain to me, It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, A health unto the happy, A fig for him who frets! It is not raining rain to me, TO-DAY HINK not on Yesterday, nor trouble borrow On what may be in store for you To-morrow, But let To-day be your incessant care,-- -John Kendrick Bangs. WIXT optimist and pessimist the difference is droll; The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole. D THE TASK OF HAPPINESS And to my dead heart run them in! -Robert Louis Stevenson. HEN the outlook is not good, try the uplook. ON'T worry about your work. Do what you can, let the rest go, and smile all the time. HE wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. -Thomas Carlyle. O give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. -Saadi. |