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know in order to equip them for the needs and emergencies of life, will 

 be taught and demonstrated in the public schools. 



"The great emergencies come rarely; the lesser ones come often and 

 especially do they come to the housekeeper. But every-day trials are 

 to people what the elements in nature, in their rougher moods, are to 

 vegetation. They give strength and fibre. The things that hurt are often 

 the things that kelp. If a thing can be helped, figure out a way to help 

 it. If it cannot, bear it philosophicall3\ 



"The habit of looking on the bright side of things helps out in the 

 every-day emergency. Often it is our attitude of mind that makes a thing 

 a blessing or a burden. For instance, most people think money and 

 leisure two of the most desirable things in the world. They are the best 

 things and the worst things. Give a young person his time and plenty 

 of money, and if he amounts to anything it will be because he has enough 

 sur-plus of good native strength, to rise above the temptations to selfish 

 idleness. 



"Give a child everything it wants and it will appreciate nothing. It 

 must learn value by doing things, earning things. Also, to be employed 

 ill congenial work is to be happy. If one is not happy in his work some- 

 thing is out of joint. Maybe he is not doing his work well. William 

 Morris expressed an eternal truth in the words, 'Life without industry 

 is guilt; industry without beauty is brutality.' 



"Mrs. Garfield was obliged to be her own housemaid in ker eiirly mar- 

 ried days. Ske was pkilosopkical and reasoned, 'If I must make my 

 own bread I am going to make beautiful bread.' And ske succeeded not 

 only in making beautiful bread, but in being very kappy in doing it. 

 Work was tkus lifted out of drudgery into an art simply by the atti- 

 tude of mind of the one who did it. 



•'So we see that work brings appreciation of the results of work, and 

 that it brings happiness. It brings a train of other things tkat con- 

 tribute to joy, Tke wealtky idler kas money to buy the most elaborate 

 banquet. But all tke money in tke world cannot buy an appetite. Work 

 alone will do tkat. To be able to enjoy a crust may be tke greatest 

 luxury. 



"Emerson says, 'Wken you do not know wkat to do, wait.' Many a 

 perplexing problem will somekow clear itself over nigkt. 'If we listen 

 lowly we can always kear tke rigkt word,' says tke same pkilosopker. 

 Tke reist and quiet of tke night shut out the clamor of distracting things 

 and a quiet comes over tke spirit wkick enables one to listen and catck 

 tke word wkick will solve tke problem. 



"I know very well tkat occasions often come in tke life of a kouse- 

 keejjer wken ske is so 'worked out' tkat tkings Avear and vex tkat would 

 be passed by witkout friction if ker spirits were in tune. Tke tking to do 

 next is to get into tune. Maybe a quiet kour all alone will be tke remedy. 

 If so, I would kave it tkougk tke keaven's fall, so to speak. Wken tkis 

 dangerous state is on, it skould kave as prompt treatment as a fainting 

 lit. Eliminate tke unnecessary. 



"Witk tke spirit in tune and a practical pkilosopky of life, joined to 

 good common sense, eack soul may work out its own growing solution 

 of the always-to-be-met-with, 'What would you do, if?' gathering from 

 the experience of otkers and giving of its own, eack a little ligkt in tke 

 world and all uniting to make up tke great sum of kuman activity and 

 endeavor in tke processes by wkick God' moulds man." 



