Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — To Entertain a Sick Child. [ARTICLE]

To Entertain a Sick Child.

▲ little sick child will'play for an hour with a small hand mirror, and a ■tack of bright picture cards is a posldve boon. Never throw away a picture card; put them in a box and they will come in use some day, If not for your own children, for those of somebody else. Half the pleasure in living comes from being able to be of service to others. It gives a glow to the heart that nothing else on earth will bring. Those who live for self alone, without thought for others, are the crusty old curmudgeons who go out of life unregretted, their place considered better than their company. To bring a smile to a little child’s face, a laugh into its heart, ought to be the height of happiness, but we don't often think of it that way. “Even to the least of these,” one wiser than we once said, and he who carries In his heart the love for a child has gone far on the road to a better life.—Washington Star.