Do you know that your soul is of my soul, such part,
That you seem to be fibre and core of my heart?
None other can pain me as you, dear, can do;
None other can please me or praise me as you.
Remember the world will be quick with its blame
If shadow or stain ever darken your name.
"Like mother, like son," is a saying so true,
The world will judge largely of "mother" by you.
Be yours then the task, if task it shall be,
To force this proud world to do homage to me;
Be sure it will say, when its verdict you've won.
"She reaps as she sowed, lo, this man is her son."

--_Author Unknown._

1816

HIS FATHER'S ABILITY.

At ten years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal;

At fifteen he knows as much as his father;

At twenty he knows twice as much;

At thirty he is willing to take his advice;

At forty he begins to think his father knows something, after all;

At fifty he begins to seek his advice;

And at sixty, after his father is dead, he thinks he was the smartest
man that ever lived.

1817

A son who loves his home is a joy to his parents.

1818

A man who has got a good son-in-law, has gained a son; but he who has
found a bad one, has lost a daughter.

1819

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, doth burn the heart to cinders.

--_Shakespeare._

1820

Sorrow's best antidote is employment.

1821

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way
they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

--_H. W. Shaw._

1822

The love of the poor, to the poor, is often remarked: Privation and
sorrow knit hearts as no bands of gold can.

--_Thos. D. Brown._

1823

If hearty sorrow
Be a sufficient ransom for offense,
I tender it here; I do as truly suffer
As e'er I did commit.

--_Shakespeare._

1825

When sorrow is asleep wake it not.

1826

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.

--_Don Quixote._

1827

Let your thoughts dwell on your blessings, and you will forget your
miseries.

--_Gestfeld._

1828

BRIEF PULSATION