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XVIII.—Contentment. 
Windows’”’ 
tells a beautiful sto- 
ry of a little boy 
who used to go and 
sit on a hill and look 
across to another 
hill on which stood 
, 2 house with win- 
se dows made of clear 
gold and diamonds. 
They shone and 
blazed with such 
brilliancy and beau- 
ty that the boy 
became dissatisfied 
h his own home, with its common 
glass windows, dingy interior and 
patched roof, and wanted to live in a 
house with windows like his distant 
neighbor. Upon his first holiday he 
resolved to seek that house with the 
olden windows. After a long walk 
boy came to the house where he 
seen the golden windows, and, lo, 
ey were of common glass like those 
his own home, and there was no 
w about them. A little girl came 
of the house, and when he told her 
f his disappointment she said: ‘You 
have come quite the wrong way. Come 
with me and [| will show you the house 
with the golden windows.” They went 
to a nearby knoll, and there, far away, 
stood a house with windows of clear 
d and diamonds, dazzling his eyes 
like the windows he had seen from 
his own home. But after awhile he 
; LW that it was in truth his own home. 
_ The way home was long, and it was 
dark when he reached his fa- 
*s house hungry and tired out, but 
the lamplight and the firelight in the 
Windows made them almost as bright 
iS he had seen them from the dis- 
tant hill. The family greeted him 
with loving kisses, and his father ask- 
od him if he had learned anything to- 
ay, and the boy replied, **! have learn- 
that it is our house that has the 
‘olden windows.” 
For contentment are needed both 
fortitude and courage—fortitude to 
cheerfully whatever may be dis- 
reeable in the present and courage 
to Meet bravely the uncertainties of 
he future. The habit of discontent 
its own nature brings on unhappi- 
ess. It entirely spoils every sweet 
in life by mixing in it a little bitter. 
ome think that to be troubled by 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
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every utue aunoyalce snows a supe- 
riority. One might as well be proud 
of a poor digestion. 
Idleness is the main source of discon- 
tent. The habit of discontent occurs, 
in general, from the mistake of suppos- 
ing that any arrangement of outward 
things can in itself make us happy. 
Circumstances in themselves can ney- 
er bring happiness. Every one should 
learn the art of living, and this art 
consists of being able to use the 
circumstances of life and not be at 
their mercy; to live cheerfully even 
when things are not precisely as we 
would have them and to have re- 
sources within ourselves for our own 
entertainment. 
Contentment is a matter of habit. 
“We find what we look for and what 
we are in the habit of looking for. So 
one who has formed the habit of look- 
ing for pleasant things will find them 
and perhaps will find little else. 
There is a story about a little wool 
earder who was tired of praising God 
in his simple way and wished that he 
might praise God in the higher way 
in which the pope of Rome praised 
God on Easter day. Gabriel heard his 
prayer, came down and took his place 
in the shop, and the boy grew in time 
to be the pope. But God missed his 
little human praise and sent the great 
pope back to praise in the early way 
as a boy. Your thoughts may not be 
as big as the pope’s, but if they are 
your thoughts they are better for you 
and better for the world, because you 
can convert them into deeds. 
Practice.—Let each child think of the 
comfort he has. Think how much bet- 
ter off he is than that little blind girl, 
that little lame boy or that poor wo- 
man who has no dinner. Look around 
and see those worse off than yourself. 
Count your own blessings. 
Literature. 
There is a jewel which no Indian mine can 
buy, 
No chemic art can counterfeit. 
It makes men rich in greatest poverty, 
Makes water wine, turns wooden cup to 
gold, 
The homely whistle to sweet music’s 
strain. 
Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, 
That much in little, all in naught—content. 
—Wilbye. 
No longer forward nor behind 
I look in hope or fear; 
But, grateful, take the good I find, 
The best of now and here. 
—Whittier. 
My crown is in my heart, not on my 
head, 
Not decked with diamonds and Indian 
stones, 
Not to be seen. My crown is called con- 
tent. 
‘A crown it is that selaom kings enjoy. 
—Shakespeare. 
There are two kinds of discontent in 
this world—the discontent that wrings 
its hands and the discontent that 
works. The first loses what it had, 
and the second gets what it wants.— 
Graham. 
Contentment is a pear] of great price, 
and whoever procures it at the expense 
of ten thousand desires makes a wise 
and a happy purchase.—J. Talguy. 
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