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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1902)
CHEMAWA AMERICAN. Borrowed Items, Learn to say kind thiinr about people. It will help you wonderfully. You can't be mean and happy any more than an apple can be sour and sweet. T)e first thinie to do if yn have not done it is to fall in love wiih your work. Napoleon said that success depends up on three things, enerjry, system and per severance. No success is Worthy of the no me unless it is won by honest industry and a brave breasting of the waves of fortune. "If one is to-day more" patient, more serene, more loving, more sympathetic than ne was yesterday he is truly advanc ing and his life is successful." SpeaKing of worrying, which kills more people than disease, keep a record for a month, and if you do. not worry over a great many things ihat turn out alright. Do not be downcast at your continual trials and struggles. Rather take thm as a matter of course. Regard them as dents on the shield of a eoldier who has been fighting all day to maintain bis ground. If we thought more of our real duty to add our quota to the sunshine of life, not only by trying to be happy ourselves, but also by doing our best to make others happy, we would cast worry out of our lives, hs we would endeavor to throw oft a death-dealing desease. A book Is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it totalk and it will keep stilt when you want it to keep still, and there are not many friends who know enough for Ihat. A libaary 1b a collection of friendB. The thought of 1 he hllnew and import, ance of life, the greatness of (he work one ha i. do. to train oneself for immortality, should cause him to blush for the time lost, the energy waBted, in sighing and groaiiingoverpin pricks, or in breaklngour strength, like modern Don Quixotes, analyst windmills. "There are do times in life when Oppor tunity, the chanoe to be and to do, gathers more richly about the soul than when ft has to sutler," says Phillips Brooks. Yet la it not by triumphing over small things. Die petty anxieties, "the cares that Infest the dav," that one becomes poised, acquires Btrength, and increases his capacity for enduring with fortitude the greater triaU and Borrows which enter into all lives? Look In a mirror when you worry, and see what a transformation your thought has effected In your whole attitude. Look at the dull eyes, the drooping mouth, the knotted brow, the pained expression, the dispirited bearing, and try to realize what must be the lastingeffectofdaysand weeks and years of such a tenor of thought as has produced the physical chance reflected in the glass before you. Think, too, of the effect your gloomy appearance will havt'on those associated with you, for sadness and gloom are no lees contnginuB than are joy and sunshine. "ONE person may not succeed in dispell ing all the miasma of the earth, " says Gull Hamilton; "but, If he can only cleans one little corner of it, If he can but send through the murky air one cool, hracirR, healthy sale, he will do much better than tositnnder his" vine, appalled by tli itreatneBs of the evil. Who is more likely to do this tfcan the nan or woman whose heart is so big, whose sympathies are Bo generous, and whose love is so abounding as to refuse to waste the energy that might be used in generating world-sunshine in elfish worrying over fancied personal ills, or anticipating troubles that may never come.
