People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — A REVERIE. [ARTICLE]

A REVERIE.

Reflection* of fin Old Materialist Upon Inward Calm and Outward GondltloUa. What suffices wealth, ease, and daily intercourse with our friends if we are not in the enjoyment of pood health? Can one glean content from a carbuncle on the back of his neck, or harvest calm enjoyment from the imported influenza? Hardly. To be happy we need health, and we also need the sunlight from human hearts to make our lives harmonious. We are all in a sense dependent on each other for happiness and chewing tobacco. We require for our contentment not only the tender solicitude of those near and dear to us, but we also depend for our inward happiness upon the cook, in whose power it is to bestow on us chronic dyspepsia. The washerwoman who irons off the buttons on our shirts is also to be conciliated if we desire length of days and peace of mind. To know that our happiness is studied by some unselfish creature brings exquisite pleasure; but oysters raw, with a little lemon juice on them, are not bail to take. —Texas Siftings.