WHAT IT IS WISE TO FORGET.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4723, 18 July 1890, Page 3

WHAT IT IS WISE TO FORGET.

And now lot me give yon a list of some things which will make yon happier if yon foreet them : Your neighbor's faults. All the slander you have ever heard. The numerous times you have told a servant how to do things, and the numerous times she bss forgotten. Try again, and perhaps she will remember. The date of your neighbor's new dress, so that she will not believe, when for some special reason she has to wear it a long time, that yon remember it from season to season. Forget the faults of some of your friends and remember tbe temptations. Forget the fanlt-findlng and give a little thought to the came which provoked it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends and ouly remember the good points that make yon fond of her. Forget any personal quarrels, or histories which yon may have heard by accident, and which, if repeated, would seem a thousand times worse than then are. Forget that somebody's hair is ngiy; remember only bow soft and beautiful are ber eyes. B'ot out, aa far aa possible, oil the disagreeables of life—tboy will come, but they only grow larger when yon remember them, and the constant thoughts of acts of meanness, or, worse still, malice, will only tend to make yon more familiar with them and to almost grow tolerant of them. Obliterate everything disagreeable from yesterday; atart ont with a clean sheet for to-day and write upon it, for sweet memory's sake, only those things that are lovely and lovable. These are tbe best rules for a peaceful mind and a contented life.