Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — BATHER YE ROSES! [ARTICLE]

BATHER YE ROSES!

Happiness Never a Thing One Lightly Casts Away. t • , r - I ’ r << Too Beautiful, Even Though Evane* to Bo Pawed By When One May Hold It, If Only fer the Moment. z 1 We were coming home from a dinner party together, my friend and I. It was late at night and* rather rainy, and as we sat together In the damp, almost empty trolley car, my friend spoke very suddenly and seriously,' writes Margaret E. Sangster tn the Christian Herald. “Just now,” she said, *Tve a chance to be very happy. But I’m almost afraid to takejt!” The rain beat in a futile manner against the car windows. I listened to It for a moment before I spoke. “Why?” I questioned at last —“why are you afraid to take your chance — to be happy?” "Because,” answered my friend, niyi her eyes looked far away—rest the car and the rain, even —“because I’m afraid that It won’t last!” When It is autumn and the leaves are crimson and gold-colored and very beautiful, we know, even as we admire, them,- that they will be brown and withered some day. But that does not keep us from loving their glorious colors. It’s like that, too, with flowers, and springtime, and the blue sky of summer. We know that the flowers will fade away and that springtime will go and that there will be winter storm clouds .where thtere were once sparkles of sun. • . ■. . ’ "■' " And so this is the answer to toy friend and to other friends of mine: Never be afraid to grasp at happiness because it may not last. For happiness Is as beautiful as the flowers of spring and the sky of summer and the vivid leases of autumn. And even though it might not last, happiness is too beautiful to pass by with never a glance. And then, as the said, and as we know, don’t be sure, as you take your chance at -happiness, that, it will not stay. Look around your circle of friends, look at your business associates, look at the casual crowds and note the average of happy faces Is rather high. You’ll see more smiles, I think, than frowns; more merry faces than sad ones! Don’t be afraid to take a chanee at happiness because you fear that it is too beautiful to last Take your chance, Instead, arguing that happiness is too beautiful net to last!