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THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB. 
that those who succeed best are generally 
those who have the best knack of adaptabil¬ 
ity, who can condense their exertions, who 
seem to know by instinct when this condensa¬ 
tion will give best returns, but no living per¬ 
son has any moral right to argue himself into 
the belief that his chances have all passed 
him or that the mistakes of his life—the hind 
sight may not be made as valuable to him as 
though his life had been one round of success¬ 
es. Here is a totally deaf man making an 
honest living: here is a blind man supporting 
a family in good circumstances; here is a man 
without arms earning his own bread—all of 
them cheerful, hopeful and full of that thank¬ 
ful philosophy that bubbles up from every 
misfortune and every mistake. What a les¬ 
son such people teach to the thousands of able- 
bodied folks who sit down and fold their hands 
in sorrow because they did not know enough 
to take advantage of their “one chance” or 
because they cannot live their lives over 
again and thus do certain things differently. 
And another thing—why do we always refer 
to a “ success ” in life as viewed from a 
worldly point of view ? This man becomes a 
great banker, this one manages vast railroad 
enterprises, this is a mighty soldier, that one 
is the best farmer in the country—they all 
proved “successful.” Here we have a boy 
who started out in life hopeful of becoming a 
banker, a railroad prince or a great soldier, 
but who became only a poor cobbler. The 
world never heard of him. He could not even 
do superior work at cobbling. But he helped 
the poor and the needy, he comforted and he 
blessed. But he did not “ succeed " as we 
view success. But how did God regard his 
life ? Most of us start wrong. We must be 
rich, we must be great, we must have easy 
lives, we must be able to command as much 
attention as our neighbors do. And the more 
we strive the more are these desires intensi¬ 
fied—the greater the disappointment when we 
fail, and the greater our inability to substi¬ 
tute the gain of our experience for what we 
imagine is our loss. 
If life were all open before us, if we knew 
just exactly what to do ; if there were no 
mystery about it all, I believe there would 
be no stimulants to physical or mental exer¬ 
tion ; such a personage as the self-made man 
would be impossible and we would all become 
puppets walking listlessly through our little 
lives to the end. I am glad that there is a 
mystery about it. I do not care particularly 
to solve it. My “hind sight” or the portion 
of my life that I have already lived, seems to 
have tajught me several rules of life that are 
unvarying. 
Work. —There is absolutely nothing accom¬ 
plished without it. The results we gain in 
any department of life simply represent work 
—good or bad, careful or careless. Nothing 
can ever be accomplished without work; poor 
work will ruin any reputation 10 times as fast 
as good work will build it up again. 
Health. —Everything is possible with it, 
nothing is possible without it. Each one 
is given a certain degree of health. As that 
health is guarded and nourished, the work of 
that person becomes strong or weak. 
Competition. —There are dozens of people 
starting out for every desirable place. But 
one can hold it. Why is he chosen ? In nine 
cases out of 10 it is because he concentrated 
every energy of mind and body to the task of 
mastering the duties involved in that position. 
His temper, his ways of thinking, his ways of 
living were all picked over and rearranged to 
fit into that groove. The very successful per¬ 
son is a specialist. No one who spends life in 
jumping from one trade to another can ever 
master one. There always will be competi¬ 
tion. The bright, original, keen mind wel¬ 
comes it, because it presents a chance for a 
clearer distinction between the' good and the 
poor. 
Happiness any person can obtain, the 
poor and the rich, the sicK and the well. A 
good digestion, a clear conscience and a regu¬ 
lar employment will bring it. “ How much 
fun can I have out of life?” I wish more men 
and women would keep asking themselves this 
question. I do not mean that life should be 
given up to a search for fun, but I would have 
more peoplo look on the'“bright side” and hunt 
more for the laughable side of life generally. 
I have the most abundant faith that if one 
will continue to work earnestly and studious¬ 
ly, concentrating his work, content to develop 
iu the natural way, cultivating health ani 
good nature to the best of his ability, his 
place in the world will be assured even if his 
slow and steady course should pass by the one 
* supreme chance.” I have made mistakes— 
who has not? Why should I grieve over them 
now and long for the impossible—a chance to 
try and see if I could not dodge them the 
second time? I shall try to not make them 
again. I shall take what lessons I can from 
them aud go on to meet whatever the future 
has iu store, aud I like to believe that some¬ 
where, some time I may get a chance in life 
where the conditions are such that these two 
sights may be even. 
HOUSEHOLD SAYINGS. 
I N the preface to the “ Professor at the 
Breakfast Table,” Dr. Holmes says: 
“ How a stray sentence, a popular saying, the 
maxim of some wise man, a lino accidentally 
fallen upon and remembered, will sometimes 
help one when he is all ready to be vexed or 
indignant.” He might have added, “ When 
he is ready to be discouraged, fretful, careless, 
or guilty of a dozen other failings 'to]|which 
man is prone.” Every household has its own 
sayings, and a few belonging to one family 
circle are given below. 
* * * 
When we know of a whole family made un¬ 
comfortable by the treatment the wife and 
mother gives her husband and children; or 
of the commotion one interfering woman can 
make in a church, a family, or a neighbor¬ 
hood, we pass to each other the household 
phrase, “ One woman’s influence! ” We often 
forget, though, to say it when we see happy 
children and social circles brightened by a 
good and gracious woman. 
* * * 
When the day begins late and the work 
goes cross-wise, the ironing interferes with the 
cooking, and the churning comes in the heat 
of the day, we exclaim: “ It's no use to chase 
the hour we lost this morning; it grows into 
three before we catch it,” and truly the work 
gets so tangled that it all takes more than the 
usual time, and the fretting it causes does not 
hasten it any. 
* * * 
But when an early start sets all the house¬ 
hold machinery runuing smoothly, so that the 
dishes are washed and the churning is done 
while the day is cool, and the ironing is going 
on at the same time, sc that it is out of the 
way when the “ big pot ” and the “ little pot ” 
must go on for the vegetable dinner, we smile 
with pleasure and say: “We have time by 
the forelock to-day.” To-morrow’s work will 
go smoother, and the canning may be done 
then. 
* * # 
Monday morning friends come to stay to 
dinner, and we plan fora full week saying: 
“ Company to-day, we may look for them all 
the week,” and Saturday night we tell the 
visitor who has come last, that he or she was 
expected; for our cousins, uncles, aunts and 
friends have made the whole week a holiday 
by their visits. When the saying fails to turn 
out true, of course we forget it, and so pre¬ 
serve it and our full faith in it. 
* * * 
Accidents never daunt us though numerous 
enough at times. After the first scare, on being 
assured no serious harm has been done, some 
one says: “ We need not fear, it is our family 
luck to escape where others would break their 
necks.” The baby falls into the cistern, but 
is rescued uninjured; the horse runs away, 
scatters the sleigh along a mile of road, but 
the girl-driver rolls out when the back falls 
off, and in an hour can laugh with the 
restover the fright. But “luck” is a poor 
dependence, and we close the cistern and let 
the men drive the runaway horse in spite of 
the family charm. 
* * * 
When the children build air castles, laying 
the foundation of each one by saying: “When 
wo are rich,” mother says: “Wealth and 
our family will always be strangers; you 
never heard of auy riches in our family, did 
you?” And father quotes from the prayer of 
Agur: “ Give me neither poverty nor 
riches,” and yet we build our air castles hope¬ 
fully, though perhaps less extravagantly, and 
often think there is better wealth than that 
represented by dollars aud cents. 
* * * 
If study seems difficult, or plans fail after 
hard work to make succeed, Holland’s lines 
are ready from the household sayings: “ All 
common good has common price, exceeding 
good exceeding,” aud the greater the prize we 
are working for, the higher we feel must be 
the price we pay in care, time, thought and 
work, and in that difficult coin to command— 
patient perseverance. 
* * 
An admonition that is sometimes very irri¬ 
tating when misapplied, is a comfort when 
long days of work seem to stretch out endless¬ 
ly down the future, aud there is no promise 
of long, lazy vacations, full of the delights of 
eating without cooking, and of enjoyable cool, 
spotless rooms without touching broom or 
dust-cloth to make them so. When the weeks 
are full from Saturday to Saturday again, 
aud the work is bringing some cherished eud 
nearer, if not a vacation, we say with.^pleas- 
sure: 
“Rest Is not quitting the busy career, 
Rest Is the fitting of self for one’s sphere.” 
* * * 
Another stanza is helpful for some circum¬ 
stances, and we apply it in various ways to 
our occupations. It begins: 
“Labor Is life, ’tls the still water faileth, 
Idleness ever despalreth, bewaileth: 
Keep the watch wound, or the dark rust assalleth,” 
“Now look at these tins, if they had been in 
use this damp weather they would not be 
rusty;” we say; or, “Use this table-cloth this 
week; it has lain here until it is getting yel¬ 
low. It must have its turn on the table 
oftener.” Then some one quotes our lines and 
we wonder what faculties we are letting lie 
idle to rust, or yellow with time. a. b. 
A SUBSTITUTE FOR A REFRIGERA¬ 
TOR. 
T HE scarcity of ice has compelled us to 
adopt various methods of preserving 
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the cellar bottom and covering them with tin 
pans, screens, etc., but all such devices were 
incomplete and unhandy. We finally devised 
a box about five feet long, three feet wide and 
deep enough to hold a milk pitcher. For 
Fig. 207. 
convenience we divided it into two compart¬ 
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