Songs with a Moral and Love Songs
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5e>nj^ The Foinl of View. |Lifc is called a danclngr bubble FEBRUARY 19, 1941. On the rapid stream of years, ivtrt <L |Rainbow-hued or dimmed by trouble As it to our view appears. |LIfc is heaven if we use it. Songs of Long Ago I.ovinB well our fellow kind, |But Is hell if we abuse It- Don't Marry a Man to Reform Rim. All depends upon the mind. Don't marry a man to reform him. To God and your own self be true: Sent in by Mrs. Stella Hendren, Kamiah. Don't link his voice to your virtue; (Idaho. You'll rue it, dear girl, if you do. Ho matter how fervent bis pleadings Be not by his good promise led A Picture From Life's Other Side. If he can't be a man while wooing I In the world's mlahty gallery of pic-l Songs of Long Ago He'll never be one when he's wed. tures 1 I Hang scenes that are painted from lue:| Smile "When You Can. There's many a maiden has tried it. Pictures of love and of beauty. And Just proved a failure at last: Pictures of hatred and strife; Smile when you can. It may lighten ft Better tread your life's path alone, dear. pictures of home that waa happy. You^kiiow^'not how many your brother Than to wed a lover that's fast. Where father and mother reside. I There hangs on the wall the saddest of Know not^how^of'ttimes a bright smile, may Mankind's much the same the world over, The exceptions you'll find are but few; The picture from life's other side. A heaft^hftt IS ready ta yieM to despair And Che rule is defeat and disaster— CHORUS. Smile when you can—a fond heart that The chances are great against you. IA picture from life's other side. May^^find^ome sweet hope In a beau- Don't trust your bright hopes for the 1 Seme one fell by tho way; future. A Hie has gone out with the tide. Some lender me'm'ry that smile mas be The beautiful crown of your youth. That may have been happy one day. To the keeping of him who holds lightly 1 Some poor old mother at home ' To bTe^'and to comfort that fond heart His fair name, his honor and truth. t Is watching and waiting _ alone, , .the whUe-cHOHDS. iLonBtne to hear from her loved one so "To honor and love" you must promise: Smile when sou can. as you work for the Don't pledge when you can not fulfill. That's the picture from life's other I If he'll have no respect for himself, dear. side. In B^"'rto6 the sheaves for his garner Most surely you then never will. I The first scene is that of a gambler. Work.^1%^ he but a "cup of cold water" Who has lost all his money at play: You offer, with smiles, to a child of his I Make virtue the price of your favor Draws his dead. mother's ring from his love. : Place wrong doing under a ban; . And let him who would win you and wed ■ finger. Smile when you can—it is easy hi sun- That she wore on her wedding day. you. iHl.s last eanlhly treasure he stakes It. But 'smlVes make the sunshine more Prove himself in full measure a man. Bow.s his head that his 'shame he might blessed and bright. , Wbo would you have to wals neath the Sent In by Mrs. C. A. Van Amburgh, 1 When they lifted his head they found he Lliid, W:ish. was dead: "Which ^one^sunny smile might disperse That's a picture from life's other side. with its light? Then smile when you can—like bread I The next scene Is that of two brothers, on the waters." ,. _ . 1 Whose lives in different ways led: The smile that you give a sad bosom to Al"";<y.s C'hcprfiil. lone was in luxury living, I The other begged for his bread. May sme'^day reflect from the lips of Let our hearts be always cliperful. One dark night they met on the highway,. another , "Why .should murmuring enter there Your money or life the thief cried! And chase from your spirit a sigh and When our kind and loving father He took with his knife his own brother s a tear. Makes us children of his care. life I That's a picture from life's other side. i CHORUS. ]>e«th emd the Toaih. Always cheerful, always cheerful. I The last scene is that by a river. Sunshine al.1 around, we see. I Of a heart broken mother and babe. "Not yet, the flotver* ■» In my path. Full of beauty is the path of duty. As she stands In . the night air and The eun ts fa the aky: Cheerful we may always be. ' shivers, . ' I An outcast and no one will say. Not yet. my heart is full of hope, •When we turn aside from duty. Once she was somebody's darling, X can not bear to dfa. Comes the pain of doing wrong, I Some mother's joy and pride. , And a shadow creeping o'er us lOod help her she leaped, there is no one "Not yert, I never knew tfll- noer T Checks the-.rapture of our song. I to leap, , . I How preoloua life could b«} iThat's the picture from life's other 5lac.| My heart la "full of love. O Peaihl Oh. the good are always happy. I can sot come vrltb theef" And their path is always bright. PROXIlVnTY. Lei. us heed the blessed, council, But Lore' and Hope, enchanted twain. Shun the wrong and do the right. Paased in their falsehood by: By Rev. W. J. Thompson. I Death came again, and then he eald, Sent in by Mrs. Hudson Freeman. Ro- Two born within one home "I'm ready nw to diel" I .salia. Wasti. In company are seen: —Letitla lilirftbeth Z«ndon, Yet separated so— A mllDon miles betwefihl Love Thy Neighbor. Two others may be born [Songs of Long Ago An entire world apart; "Keep on the Sunny Side of Life." Yet are close together There's a dark and troubled side of life. I [There's a bright and sunny side, too. 1 In mind, and soul, and heart! [Thoush we meet with the darkness and] I strife. Distance is not in miles, [The sunny side we also may view. YOU wifl see'him through. , Whatever men may say; Chorus. The measure of our thoughts iKeep on the sunny side. Makes near, or far away! lAlways on the sunny side. Don't iKeep on the sunny side of life, But my mother told me w lit will help us every day. lit will brighten all the way. ^ Mid you wm'find your labor Ah. How Sweet. IIf we keep on the sunny side of life. A great deal easier, will be breezier IaH. ho-w sweet it Is to love! , Though the storm in lU fury break today. If you love thy neighbor. I Ah, how gay is young desire! Crushing hopes that we cherished dear, I And what pleasing P"'"" we pro\ o Storms and clouds will pass away. , I When -we first approach loves fire. The sun again will shine bright and Sent in by Ela'ue K-artman. Spokane. I Bains of love be sweeter far. clear. Than all other ploaaurea are. Sent in by Mrs. John,Holt, Spokane. I Sighs •which are from lovers blovro, 1 Do but gently heave the heart, SHIPS THAT PASS IN TPIE NIGHT E'en tho'tears thoy shed alone • Cure, Uhe trickling ^^Im. thel^r mart. One ship drives east and another drives Lovers, when they lose Ih^r breath, 'Farewoll! farewell!" is often heard - Bttfea'-srws'yin-eaW. death ', •• From the lips of thoso who part; west 'Tin ,-1 whispered lono—'tis a gentle word, JVith the selfsame whids that blow; I Love and time •with revwence use. ; But it springs not from the heart. Treat them like a parting friend. |! It may serve for the lover's closing lay, It's the set of the sails and not the gales '■ To be eung 'neath a summer sky; That tells the xvay they go. Nor the golden gifts refuse. But give to me tho tips that say AVhich in youth sincere-they acna. The honest words, "Good by!" For each year their price is more Like the wifids of the sea are the winds And less simple than before. "Adieu! Adlou!" may greet tho ear, In guise of courtly speech: of fate, 1 Love, like spring tides full and high, I' Cut when we leavrf the kind and dear, As tve voyage along through life; S'welU in every youtnful vein; 11 • 'Tie not what the soul would teach, But eacih tide does less supply li "Whene'er wo grasp the hands of tlioae It's the set of the soul that decides its goal, Till they, quite shrlnlt in again. We "would have forever nigh. And not the calm or the strife. I If a flow in'a«e appear The flame Of friendehip bursts and glows. —ELLA WHEELER WILCOX "Tie but rain and.^.un8 not clear. In the warm, frank words, "Good liy. ^ —John Drydcn. —Anonymous. Yon Can't Rave Everything, I You can't have everything; Be satisfied with the little you may get.