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Facts and Fancies for the Fireside
THOMAS JEFFERSON’S TEN
RULES.
Not All New, But All of Them Wise.
(New York American.)
Many wise sayings, speeches and
letters have come down to us from the
man who wrote the Declaration of In
dependence, and who really believed
what the Declaration of Independence
says.
Out of these writings of Jefferson
ten rules have been collected. They
are worthy the attention and thought
of all our readers.
They are short. Here they are:
1. Never put off until tomorrow
what you can to do today.
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before
you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want
because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of eating too
little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have
cost us that have never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth
handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
you speak; if very angry, count a
hundred.
Your Husband’s Friends.
(From Hearst’s N. Y. Journal.)
A man who has business friends
must entertain them somehow. If
he can entertain them pleasantly at
home, so much the better for him and
for you and for everybody concerned.
One never knows when a business
friend’s help may “come in useful.”
Many a wife has helped to make or
mar her husband’s business career.
Even though she knows nothing of
his affairs, and he is disinclined to
take her into his confidence regard
ing them, she may do much to mold
his business future without stepping
outside her own home sphere.
A wife can often make her social
gifts contribute largely to the much,
desired end, and in this way can often
give her husband assistance which is
simply invaluable to him. Especial
ly should she be prepared to entertain
his business friends.
Do not, therefore, discourage your
husband from bringing home his busi
ness friends, even though you do not
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find much pleasure in their society.
They may not interest you at all;
they may not be quite the class of
people with whom you have been ac
customed to mix; for it by no means
follows that the man who can bestow
on your husband a remunerative agen
• cy is much of a social acquisition.
Are You Sweet, or Are You Sour?
Each one of us in our daily life
must be one of two things, either
sweet or sour, and. occasionally it is
well for us to stop and ask ourselves,
To which class do we belong?
The fret and hurry of hard work,
the endeavor to keep up bravely when
bearing a too heavy burden, the of
ten unmerited harsh judgments of
those dear to us —all combine perhaps
at times to place us in the catego
ry of “sour,” but none should remain
in that state for a long period.
To diffuse sweetness is particularly
a woman’s privilege. To knock off
the blunt edges, to smooth down the
rough corners, are little duties that
a sweet nature takes as her particular
charge. The few words of kindly peace
and good fellowship, the knitting to
gether the broken links in friendship
or love, and, above all, the sinking
of self into the serving of others, mark
the “sweet” woman! She never sees
the evil, but seeks to find the redeem
ing trait which she is certain is in
every person.
In her sweetness she can make ex
cuses for failures, for unkind words,
for undone deeds, until those who had
Nothing good to say feel humbled
and ashamed of their unkind remarks.
Do you know a “sweet” woman? Are
you such a one, or do you belong to
the “sour” variety?
No one is so quick to imitate as a
young child; therefore any woman who
is constantly in the presence of chil
dren should endeavor to let “sweet
ness of nature” penetrate her actions,
words and thoughts, or she may mar
what might have been a noble char
acter.
And to the lover, what a happiness
is his when he finds a “sweet” wo
man! It means everything; it tells
him that he has found one who will
make a little spot on this earth a
true haven of rest, glorified by her
sweet presence. So, if our natures
have grown “sour,” let us try to
change them, that we may be known
as the “sweet” type of woman.
The Girl With a Grievance.
Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have sur
vived,
But what torments of pain you endure
From the evils that never arrived.
One comes across so many girls
nowadays with a grievance—some
times with a dozen of them. And it
seems such a pity to waste time in
such a cheery, delightful old world
as this by being miserable and dis
contented. One charming girl, for
instance, might be the happiest, most
sunshiny little person in the world,
but she is always worrying about the
few things she hasn’t, and never once
thinks of counting up all the delight
ful things she has.
Os course, unpleasantnesses happen
to her, as they do to all other mortals.
But she isn’t sensible enough to swal
low the bitter pills of life without
making a fuss. It’s surprising how
beautifully they slip down if you take
them that way.
The girl with a grievance very of
ten turns all the best, happiest and
nicest circumstances of her life to frets
and complaints.
When one girl compares her condi
tion with that of another girl she is
too apt to think only of what the
other girl has, not whether she enjoys
it
The two are very different.
As a rule, the girl with a grievance
is a girl who thinks mostly about
having “a good time.”
She sets too much store on trivial
little pleasures, and forgets that happi
ness very often plays hide-and-seek
with us when we pursue it too eagerly.
But it often comes to us of its own
accord, when we are not thinking
about or seeking it.
MACKAY’S STATUE.
A bronze statue of John W. Mackay
is to be unveiled at Reno, Nev., in Sep
tember when the Mackay School of
Mines at the Nevada State University
is dedicated. The statue represents
Mr. Mackay in miner’s clothes.
A WASHINGTON SCION.
A great-great-grandson of George
Washington's brother Samuel, Captain
Mervyn C. Buckey, is now on duty as
an army engineer in Puget Sound. He
is believed to be the only representa
tive of the Washington family now in
the army or navy.
WHO IS MOLLY CODDLE?
(W. J. L., in The New York World.)
Pray, who is Molly Coddle,
Whom the President dislikes,
And at whose harmless weakness
He so vigorously strikes?
Is she kin to Mamie Taylor,
That maiden of renown
Who is known and somewhat courted
At every bar in town?
Is she kin to Helen Blazes,
Another lassie who »
Has got a reputation
That is warm enough for two?
Is she any kin to Kitty-
Kitty What’s-her-other-name,
Who always gets the rake-off
in the great American game?
Is she kin to Sara Toga,
Who’s an angel without wings,
A most attractive spinster
Os fifty-seven springs?
Is she any kin to Sallie,
Sweet Sallie Lun, you know,
Who always takes th® bakery
At every cakewalk show?
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Is she any kin to Charlotte,
Charlotte Russ, the fluffy maid,
Who is in desert places
Appetizingly displayed?
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Is She any kin to Hittie,
The maid who knocks to win,
The belle of the solar plexus,
Th® lovely Hittie Maginn?
No?
So?
Then who is Mollie Coddle,
Os so much college fame?
Is she Miss Nancy Harvard
Under another name?
UNRIGHT.
(The Baltimore American.)
Boston has been deprived of her
rights. That $4,000,000 bean trust was
organized out in Cleveland.
JERSEY JUSTICE.
(The Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
A negro who attacked a New Jersey
girl one day was In the penitentiary
serving a life sentence the next. There
is no doubt this beats lynching.
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