nd arouse their hope and
self-confidence and ambition, it is better than carloads of clothing or
furniture or provisions.

But little children, suffering from cold, or hard-working, over-taxed
men and women, will not be harmed, and may be temporarily cheered and
encouraged by your gifts.

No matter if you still need your frayed-out garments--do not keep them.

Your thoughts of poverty and trouble have impregnated them so that you
will continue to produce the same despondent mind stuff while you wear
these garments.

Get rid of them, and believe that you are to soon procure fresh,
becoming raiment.

Rouse all your energies, and go straight ahead with that purpose in
mind.

You will be surprised to find how soon the opportunity presents itself
for you to obtain what you need.

There is new strength, repose of mind and inspiration in fresh apparel.

God gives Nature new garments every season. We are a part of Nature.

He gives us the qualities and the opportunities to obtain suitable
covering for our changing needs, if we believe in the one, and use the
other.

When I read of a wealthy man who boasts that he has worn one hat seven
years, or a woman in affluent circumstances who has worn one bonnet for
various seasons, I feel sorry for their ignorance and ashamed of their
penuriousness.

Look at the apple-tree, with its delicate spring drapery, its luxurious
summer foliage, its autumn richness of coloring, its winter draperies
of white! Surely the Creator did not intend the tree to have more
variety than man!

The tree trusts, and grows, and takes storm and sun as divinely sent,
and believes in its right to new apparel, and it comes.

It will come to you if you do the same.

High Noon

Every woman who passes thirty ought to keep her brain, heart and mind
alive and warm with human sympathy and emotion. She ought to interest
herself in the lives of others, and make her friendship valuable to the
young.

She should keep her body supple, and avoid losing the lines of grace:
and she should select some study or work to occupy her spare hours and
to lend a zest to the coming years. Every woman in the comfortable
walks in life can find time for such a study. No woman of tact, charm,
refinement and feeling need ever let her husband, unless she has
married a clod, become indifferent or commonplace in his treatment of
her. Man reflects to an astonishing degree woman's sentiments for him.

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