t face. As we love to see a happy expression on the faces of
our parents, brothers, sisters and friends, so must they enjoy seeing
a pleasant look overspreading our features. And with this good and
kindly resolve in our minds it will never be difficult for us to
decide whether we shall give to the good world about us the gladness
or the gloom that is embodied in

SONG OR SIGH

If you were a bird and shut in a cage,
Now what would you better do,--
Would you grieve your throat with a sorry note
And mourn the whole day through;
Or would you swing and chirp and sing,
Though the world were warped with wrong,
Till you filled one place with the perfect grace
And gladness of your song?

If you were a man and shut in a world,
Now what would you better do,--
On a gloomy day, when skies were gray,
Would you be gloomy, too?
When crossed with care would you let despair
Life's happy hope destroy,
Or with a smile work on the while
You found the path to joy?

[Illustration: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE]

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[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are
gathered in this section.]

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it.--Holmes.

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.--Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.

A gay, serene spirit is the source of all that is noble and good.
--Schiller.

Your manners will depend very much on what you frequently think on;
for the soul is as it were tinged with the color and complexion of
thought.--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff
life is made of.--Benjamin Franklin.

Be yourself, but make yourself in everything as delightful as you
can.--Margaret E. Sangster.

The tissue of the life to be we weave with colors all our own, and in
the field of destiny we reap as we have sown.--Whittier.

What must of necessity be done you can always find out beyond question
how to do.--Ruskin.

The doctrine of love, purity, and right living has, step by step, won
its way into the hearts of mankind, and has filled the future with
hope and promise.--William McKinley.

Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us
honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
--Goethe.

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