ESSAY A Garden of Life By Euiza BEus Spring, probably the most enjoyable season of all the year, with its flowers, birds, breezes, and sunshine, is here once again. People are hunting up their shovels, rakes, and seeds in spite of that terrible disease, “Spring Fever,” that everyone has. “What shall we plant?” has probably keen the foremost question in every person’s mind for the past two or three weeks. If you had chanced to look through the window of some home you would probably have seen the man of the house with his face buried deep in the seed catologue and his wife lending a helping voice in the matter of their garden. They must make a careful selection of seeds as only the best would do if they would reap a harvest of fragrant It must be tended intelligently and carefully and cultivated at regular inblossoms. Perhaps, if they are inexperienced the advice of an “old tervals during the season. timer” will prove helpful to make their garden one of golden returns, Have you ever thought of your life as a garden? Perhaps not, for as Uncle Sime says: ‘Sum folks don’ generate ’nuff kindness durin’ the year t’? make an explosion loud enuff to be herd.” Kind acts, cheerful words, and smiles are the good seeds of our life. If you cultivate these often enough you will form the habit of doing good. Turn up the corners of your mouth and see how easy it is to smile, then smile every half hour for a week and you will form a habit.of smiling. If you would be happy, think happy thoughts and before long your mind will become accustomed to happiness. Kindness done today will help to sweeten the years ahead. Some people go thru life without enjoying the beauty of the world and life as did a devout and faithful man who was led to many wonderful places by an angel. He beheld great rivers winding their way to the seas. Fragrant flowers lifting their sweet faces everywhere and wafting thier sweet perfume on every breeze. The man feasted his weary soul on the scenes and remarked, “Ah, this is heaven indeed! How magnificent it all-is!” ‘No, foolish man,” replied the angel, ‘This is the world in which you spend all your years and which you never saw.” Ambition, confidence, determination—lead infallibly to great success. Therefore let not the bad seeds of frowns, lies, and temper choke out the life of the good seeds. The bad seeds, like green apples, upset the whole plan or system. Some people are like the wind, of the heaviest loads—the not always one of bad habits. No at their best. They are carrying one one can do his best, or even do well, in the midst of worry and nagging, therefore, when you live, live as cheerily as you can and do not put even a straw in the way of others. Do ‘Worthwhile things although they cost the most, for they are always worth more than they cost,” and there is nothing in the world worth really doing wrong for—. Therefore, spade your garden and turn under the evil seeds, let each day be a new, beginning when, with your shoulders squared, you go straight forward with a smile on your face and a light in your eye which tells the world you are growing perfect flowers in your garden of life.