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Evening Star, Issue 7361, 5 November 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Happiness. Happiness consists not in obtaining what we crave for, but in turning to noble uses that which we have. Many a wife goes about complaining of mere trifles, Her husband has not given her the position she expected; he has a good heart, but a bad temper ; his relatives are unpleasant, or he takes a dislike, just or unjust, to hers—all these minor miseries silly women dwell upon instead of accepting them, like the husband, " for better for worse," striving by all conceivable means—by patience, by selfdenial, by courage when necessary, and by silent endurance always—to change worse to better. Early Pursuit of Knowledge.—" At the Duke of Wellington's funeral, the little child of a friend of mine," writes Mr J. C. Young, " was standing with her mother at Lord Ashburton's window to Bee the mournful pageant. During the passage of the procession she made' no remark until the Duke's horse'was led by, its' saddle empty, and his boots reversed in the stirrups, when she looked up into her mother's face and said : • Mamma, when we die, will there be nothing left of us but boots ?'" " Yes," said a man who iB always in difficulties, " as a success I have always been a failure, but as a'failure I have been tin unqualified suedes*;',' ' '■'' ' '