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Gharacter 
Lessons to 
Train Youth 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
_ (Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment league.] 
XXIII.—Amiability. 
RS. LAURA 
M E. RICH- 
ARDS tells 
a beautiful story 
of some children 
who were sent to 
reap in a wheat- 
field. Some work- 
ed industriously, 
some indifferent- 
ly, but there was 
one child who did 
not seem to work 
Bip Ail, s- QUE ran: 
here and there 
after butterflies. 
He sang joyously 
and laughed and made all the others 
laugh with him, so that everybody 
about him worked better and faster. 
At evening the angel of the wheat- 
field called the children to the gate 
of the palace, which none could enter 
unless bearing a proper measure of 
sheaves. Some brought many sheaves, 
others few, but the child who ran to 
and fro after the butterflies came emp- 
ty handed. 
The angel said to the child, ““Where 
The child hung his 
head and said: “I do not know. I had 
some, but I lost them.” ‘‘None enter 
here without sheaves,” said the angel. 
“TI know that,’ said the child, ‘‘but I 
thought I would like to see the place 
where the others are going; besides, they 
insisted that I should come with them.” 
Then all the children interceded. 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
One said: “Dear angel, let him in. In- 
the morning I was sick and this child 
came and played with me and showed 
me the butterflies and was so merry 
and cheerful I forgot my pain. He 
helped me gather my sheaves and also 
gave me some of his, and I would give 
them to him again, but I cannot tell 
them now from my own.” Another 
said: “Just now, as evening was com- 
ing, I was weary and sad. I had so 
few sheaves that it seemed hardly 
worth while to go on working, but this 
child showed me the butterflies and 
comforted me with his merry laughter 
and cheery talk and gave me all of his 
Look, it may be that 
these are his, and yet I cannot tell, 
they are so like my own.” And the 
other children said: “He helped us also 
and gave all of us some of his sheaves. 
Dear angel, let him in, we pray you, 
for we love him.” 
The angel smiled and said, “Here 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Teen ne —“RNRENNNSs'— ®?' 
are nls sneaves, ana tney ure KuOWn 
and counted, every one.” And he said 
to the child, “‘Lead the way in.” 
Amflability is the crown of character, 
for it makes visible the royalty of its 
possessor and leads all to do him rev- 
erence. 
Amiability is more than mere sweet- 
ness of temper. It is thoughtfulness 
of other’s comfort and pleasure. It is 
the unconscious desire to give happi- 
ness—born of happiness. 
It is not enough to have moods of 
geniality. One must have the habit of 
“love ways” and must give constant 
expression to the feeling. We need 
more than the simple knowledge that 
we are beloved. We need to have it 
spoken and repeated again and again. 
The best furnishings of a house are 
happy faces. The best seasoning of 
daily bread is a smile. The best music 
to soothe weariness is laughter. 
In Riverside park, New York city, 
under the shadow of the magnificent 
monument that covers the remains of 
General Grant is a single grave sur- 
rounded by a plain iron fence. Upon 
a simple headstone is inscribed, ‘To 
the Memory of an Amiable Child.” In 
the sight of heaven which has achiey- 
ed the greater virtue, the truer great- 
ness, Ulysses 8. Grant, the conquering 
hero, whom the country delights to 
honor, or “An Amiable Child?” 
Amiability is the mastery of self, the 
subjection of disagreeable moods, the 
conquering of irritable and impatient 
tempers. It is the ruling of the evil 
spirit within us, and it is written, “He 
that ruleth his spirit is greater than 
he that taketh a city.” Amiability is 
a grace that is possible to every one 
of us, but it requires unremitting en- 
deavor and earnest determination. 
Amiability is not a gift; it is an ac- 
complishment. It is a victory, and 
“An Amiable Child” is the epitaph of 
a hero. On this battlefield let every 
boy and girl resolve to become a con- 
quering hero and win for himself and 
herself the magnificent eulogy in- 
scribed upon that humble headstone! 
Practice.—Let each child resolve that 
today he will not say a single unkind 
word. : 
Literature. 
He that brings sunshine into the 
lives of others cannot keep it from 
himself.—Japanese Saying. 
The inner side of every cloud 
Is bright and shining, 
And so I turn my clouds about 
And always wear them inside out 
To show the lining. 
—Ellen Thornyecroft Fowler. 
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s 
nest.—Malabar Proverb. 
I think the first virtue is to restrain 
the tongue. He approaches nearest to 
the gods who knows how to be silent 
even when he is in the right.—Cato. 
Most of the shades of life are pro- 
duced by standing in our own sun- 
shine.—Emerson. 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 
—Tennyson. 
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This is to inform the public that I have 
been appointed Forest Warden for Man- 
chester by Mr. F. W. Rane, State Forester, 
and I have appointed the following as my 
deputies: 
M. BE. GORMAN, 
NATHAN P. MELDRUM, 
JOSEPH P. LEARY, 
LORENZO BAKER, 
JAMES SALTER, 
JACOB H. KITFIELD, 
WM. YOUNG, 
FRED’K BURNHAM, Forest Warden. 
WOOD SAWED 
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Telephone 139-13 
Location of Fire Alarm Boxes 
31. Electric Light. Station. 
33. Telephone Exchange Office. 
34. Summer Street, P. H. Boyle’s Stable. 
41. Corner Bridge and Pine sts. 
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52. Fire Engine house, School st. 
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Three blasts, extra call. 
Directions for giving an alarm: Break 
the glass, turn the key and open the do-r, 
pull the hook down once and let go. 
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GEORGE 8S. SINNICKS, 
CLARENCE W. MORGAN, 
Engineers of Fire Department. 
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