Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — Everyday Enjoyments. [ARTICLE]

Everyday Enjoyments.

Happy the man or woman who finds happiness in the daily incidents of life. A. susceptibility to delicate attentions, a fine sense of the nameiess and exquisite tenderness of manner and thought, constitute, in the minds of its poaseesora, the deepeat undercurrent of life: the felt and treasured, but unseen and inexpressible richness of affection. It is rarely found in the characters of men, but outweighs, when it is, all grosser qualities. There are many who waste and lose affections by careless and often unconscious neglect It is not a plant to grow unattended; the breath of indifference, or a rude touqh, may destroy forever its delicate texture. There is a daily attention to the slightest courtesies of life, which can done preserve the first freshness of passion. The easy surprises of pleasure, earnest cheerfulness of assent to slight wishes, habitual respect to opin.ons, unwavering attention to the comfort of others abroad and at home, and. above all, the cheerful preservation of those proprieties of conversation which are sacred when before the world, are some of the secrets of that happiness which age and habit alike fail to impair.