we can know.

Life is to live, to take the sweet
The hidden fates have sent,
To live each day the day you meet
And try to be content.

So do not seek to tear the veil
And read the heart of God.
Enough that He is in the gale
And in the velvet sod.

Enough that He has given you
The boon of days and years,
The world of green, the sky of blue,
And sunshine after tears.

--_Douglas Mallock_.

_The Match Box_

Life is a Match Box, and the Matches
Ambitions, and unstruck desires;
Youth the material that catches
And kindles in the darkness fires.

And Love is like an idle fellow
Who sets the match box in a blaze,
And sees the blue flames and the yellow
Shoot up and die beneath his gaze.

But Age is like a man returning
Late homeward. Creeping in his socks
He tries to get a candle burning,
And finds he has an empty box.

The seven ages of man have been well tabulated by somebody or other on
an acquisitive basis. Thus:

First age--Sees the earth.

Second age--Wants it.

Third age--Hustles to get it.

Fourth age--Decides to be satisfied with only half of it.

Fifth age--Becomes still more moderate.

Sixth age--Now content to possess a six-by-two strip of it.

Seventh age--Gets the strip.

_Wisdom_

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look life in the eyes
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth
And taken in exchange--My Youth.

--_Sara Teasdale_.

LISPING

A young lady who lisped very badly was treated by a specialist,
and learned to say the sentence: "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for
Soldiers."

She repeated it to her friends, and was praised upon her masterly
performance.

"Yeth, but ith thuth an ectheedingly difficult remark to work into a
converthathion--ethpethially when you conthider that I have no thither
Thuthie."

LOGIC

"Sedentary work," said the college lecturer, "tends to lessen the
endurance."

"In other words," butted in the smart student, "the more one sits the
less one can stand."

"Exactly," retorted the lecturer; "and if one lies a great deal one's
standing is lost completely."

Two men were hotly discussing the merits of a book. Finally, one
of them, himself an author, said to the ot