A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

DON’T LOOK FOR THE FLAWS

I r your Irieml has ten pood (piali lies and one bud one, why look at llk ten. and I’orpei I lie one;-

H he has ten had qualities and oik pood one, why not look at I lie one ami lorpot ihe. lenr 1 It’s didieiill. Inn il s possible -—a ml it’s worth while. >' Ill'll a leliow knows lhal you are eon.seaiiis ot tin* pood in him, you help him to he his lies!. lint when lie knows I 1 1 ; 1 1 you help liilll to he I! i > worst.

Hot h pood and had are prohubl.v there to lie Si (0 ; tail il preal ly depends Oil you whether I lie I limp you love or Ihe thinp you hate will sprinp to lipid in your friend or ueiphhoiir. •Marlin !. ull u-r once said, “lit yon I real a man as a dep. he may he forced to act as oii,d’ which was only allotIrnr way of sayinp lhal we usually see what we look lor. and lhal we pom-r----ally pel hack v. lull we pi vc mil. I.'.okinp for Haws in friends is a. very pern iejoiis pracl ice aml also a very penei a I one. The man who said, “Where Iwo or lliree are palhered lopelher l In-re is

scandal in I lie midst of them” was certainly a cynic; hut he knew what was poinp on in his home town, and In wniilduT have been far wroup had lie applied his remarks to your friends or mine.

Yet lookinp for llaws in friends is only a habit, and. kite ail oilier habits il prows by wind it feeds oil.

Why not cult ivnte Ihe habit of lookinp for the pood even >n (lie meam-sl types you meet / 1 1 w ill help iln-m a little il will help you a lot.

—.M. IMt.KSTOX STANI.KY