Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — SERVES A USEFUL PURPOSE [ARTICLE]

SERVES A USEFUL PURPOSE

Writer Comments Entertainingly of What He Calls “This Me of Mine,” - == First, it’s very individual, this Me of mine. Lt eats, it walks, it plays, it works, and it sleeps. Also, it plans ayd thinks and dreams and loves. This Me of mine gets lonely, too, even in the midst of work. Lt looks around itself and marvels at time and space and things, and grows into a warm ecstatic mood at the feel of life and all its tasks. I like this Me of mine, because it Is understandable. Good and bad. both. But honestly abreast For true things are passing by at every hour of every day. . I talk to this Me of And it talks to me. And the world of action all around stirs the blood in tils Me of mine. For it is wakeful and alert. I run erraijds for this Me of mine. I risk, I work, f sorrow, I sympathize for this Me of mine. This inside one,-this outside ofie.'this everywhere one —this Me of mine—it’s all that I may keep and call my own. But I shall stick, with loyal pride, and gladly strive to make better, to wield stronger, the brain, the heart and the soul of this. Me of mine. , So that to serve may prove the end of all that there is to this Me of mine. —From Good Housekeeping.