A DAILY MESSAGE
ART AND IDEALS.
WATCH THE LITTLE THINGS! Thu little things, the .trifling annoyances, the petty vexations of life, cause more trouble for you, me, and our neighbour than all the great worldproblems. It is not so much our industrial troubles, our Acts of Parliament, the European situation, nor even the question of who will win the ashes, that trouble any of us so very much ; it is the coming into contact with the little things of life that hurts. Dig questions are settled by big machinery, a oig industrial fuss is settled b.v the Government, but the little fuss at home must be settled by you. Every man must take the tack out of bis own shoe.
The tack in your shoe will cause you more trouble than an earthquake in •Japan; your neighbour’s screaming baby will cause you more trouble than a howling tornado in the South Seas. Oh, yes, the little things trouble you. me, and our neighbour much more than the big ones.
Your sneer, your shrug, your few idle words, will sometimes start a greater war for you, a ( nd a more troublesome one, than a war in the Hal leans.
After all, it is the little things that trouble us, hurt us, help us, hit us mmole us.
It is the little things that reveal hearts’to one apother. It is the little things that close hearts against one mother. Tt is the little things that blast our friendships. ft is the little things that hind them together again. Trouble over the little tilings—or LI lev will trouble you! —M. PRESTON STANLEY
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 1
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269A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 1
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