THE BRIGHT SIDE.
Cheerfulness can become a habit, and habits sometimes help us over hard places. A cheerful heart sees cheerful things. A lady and a gentleman were in a wood yard situated by a dirty, foul-smelling river. The lady said : ‘ How good the pine boards smell.’ ‘.Pine boards!’ exclaimed the gentleman. ‘ Just smell this foul river ’ ‘ No, thank you,’ the lady replied, ‘ I prefer to smell the pine boards.’ And she was right. If she, or we, can carry the principle through our entire living, we shall have the cheerful heart, the cheerful voice and cheerful face. There is in some houses an unconscious atmosphere of domestic and social ozone which brightens everybody. Wealth cannot give it, nor can poverty take it away. —Miss Muloch.
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Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 2, 11 April 1896, Page 6
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126THE BRIGHT SIDE. Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 2, 11 April 1896, Page 6
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