Cheap Pleasures

Our cheapept pleasurej are those whioli can ba grasped on 11 eidei. We can have them ia exchaoge for a srnile, a kind word and a uniform oheerfulnesa There are people on tuig earth who reliffiouslj expeot pleasure and happiness will come to thetn in the same way tbat old-time rigor used to try to bring order to the household, aad eduoation in the sohool room - by stern and unflinohing diecipline and a corporeal punishment that hasbeeo modified from beatincr #ith the rod to laching witb the tongue. FlooBure and happiness re something that oannot be foroed bj any auoh vixenish desire for their poesession. If people would have p!easure they must tbemselves be pleneant. If thej would have sunshine they must themeelves oome out from behind their clouds of fault-finding and peerishneee and scolding. If things don't go right, it makes them no nearer so to giv them a Xantippoan bleusing, and mako all the finer aod more gjnsitive feulings quake with apprehension On the oontrary we can only ooax pleusure by gentier wands of incantation. If we want its cheerful presenoe, we mustremember that lika attraots like. If there are smiles, suusbine, and flower about us, lot us not grasp them with a miser's fist and lock them up in our hearts. No; rathor let us take them and soatter tbem about us, in the oot of the widow, among the groups of ohildren, in tbo crowded mart, where men of business congrégate, in our families, and everywhero. We oan make the wretched happy, the disoontented oheer ful, the aliüotej rctigned, at an ezceedingly cheap rato. Wbo will refuse to do it?