ROUGH AND SMOOTH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3973, 20 July 1929, Page 1

ROUGH AND SMOOTH.

“The woman who goes through life with a gh-udge because it has not given her more of the things she wants finds rough roads everywhere, whichever way she turns, because she makes them for heirself,” states a writer in a London ■magazine. ■ “On the otlner hand, the woman who, in spite of life’s many bitter jars and disappointments ( for no one can escape them), realises that she has much to he thankful for is ready always to appreciate the smallest hit of happiness life offers and to share it with those about her. “■So she keeps young and charming and full of sympathy and companionship for those she meets. “I know to many people the law of compensation means less than nothing. They can never feel that because their misfortunes might have been so much worse they have cause for gratitude. They can-only griumjble because their good fortune has not been greater. “This state of mind seems to me to bo tempting Providence too much. I really feel that it must invite bad luelki. “I feel that, above all, we should be grateful fojr all the affection and kindness we receive from other people. “Those are things we are apt to take for granted until‘we are suddenly deprived of them. Then — and too often, alas! only then —we realise what a tremendous lot the everyday, homely kindness and love of our friends and relations meant to us. “Kindliness is one of the things that make life worth living in any circumstances, fortunate o|r otherwise, and we should be grateful for it every minute of our lives and never let it become something that we look for as a matter of coujrse, like our morning tea. “Everyone can And some cause for being grateful to life, and I do think that it is much more helpful to ourselves as well as to others to go about conscious of that gratitude and giving it out than to carry about with one an atmosphere of discontent and misery.”