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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1902)
CHEflAVVA, OftEQON, AGAIN THE SPUING. Again the Spring! Again the Easier Lily! Agttiu the soft warm air with odors Again the tender green uu hill and valley; Again the miracle of risen lift-! Again from the dark mould of their en tombing, In all their lovely robes of radiant hue, The crnciu and the violet are blooming, The self-same flowers our ear I if 8t childhood knew. Again the birds in Joy our flocki are winging, Chirping their songs of love and rest ing days; Again the sound of happy children sing )"), Along the lanes and in the won land ways. Selected. The Formation of Small Habits. Every man has from tdx toa dozen small tiahiisof which he is ouly vaguely, If at all, Aware. How many men can tell, for txsiiiple whether they habitually put on the right, hoe or the left shoe first when drewdng? Almost all human being have a regular or der of putting on their shoes, and they never depart frmi that order. If a man who habitually covers his left Foot first should pick up his right shoe lie fore he had to put on the left shoe, hp would ly it dow l), mechanically, and pick up tl.e other. He would rather go to smiie extrt expense of energy thi.n ignore his routine. Another curiout habit into which mom persons fall is that ol using only one side FRIDAY, APRIL, u, 1903. of certain streets. Men who walk to and from business every day generally have their favorite side of the street which they traverse. They will know every muddy crossing, every hole, every looe bit of pavement, every excrescence In the side walk on the north side or the south, the east side or the west; but the opposite Bide will be an unknown path to them, and they would feel almost hs strange over there as they would feel In the Strand, London, or the Champs Ely sees, Paris. The ordinary good housewife has many little domestic habits that have become al moBt hs snored an religious devotion. The sugar bowl must he placed in a Certain spot, on a certain shell in the closet or Ihe whole house neeins to be out of order. The glasses must be in their right place on the sideboard or there oan be m pence in the limine. The broom must be in Its corner or then will be scolding. Hibits are formed by following the line of least resign nee, Vhen a man has once put on his left i hue before he put on his right shoe it is easier, next time, for him to follow the "same order, His mu-desand nerves aeera to have a preference for a pro cedure with which they have previously become acquainted. When a man has walked a few timet from his home to his office on the south side of rhe street Iw crosses Instinctively to that side whenever he sets out to re neat thfl walk. When a housekeeper has "nee selected a spot for her sugar bowl, it saveB thought If she 1 ' nys places the bowl in (he suniee-pot; and thmalie loruis a lnbit. Kvery habit, is a limitation of the easy exeioine of free wtil. Bad habits are chains hnldlov us prisoner. Good habits are like a well-made harness enabling us to do our work in the world without waste' of en ergy. 8ao Frauciaco Bulletin..