CHEERFULNESS-A LIFE INSPIRATION Be cheerful , no matter what reverse obstruct your pathway , or what plagues follow in your trail to annoy you . Ask yourself what is to be gained by looking or feeling sad when troubles throng around you , or how your condition is to be alleviated by abandoning yourself to despondency ? If you are a young man , nature designed you “to be of good cheer ” ; and should you find your road to fortune, fame , or respectability , or any other boon to which your heart aspires , a little thorny , consider it all for the best , and that these impediments are only thrown in your way to induce greater efforts and more patient endurance on your part . Far better spend a whole life in diligent, aye, cheerful and un- remitting toil, though you never attain the pinnacle of your ambitious desires, than to turn back at the first appearance of misfortune, and allow despair to unnerve your energies, or sour your naturally sweet and cheerful disposition . If you are of the softer, fairer, portion of humanity, be cheerful , though we know full well that most afflictions are sweet to you when compared with disappointment and neglect ; yet let hope banish despair and ill- forebodings. Be cheerful ; do not brood over fond hopes unrealised, until a chain, link after link, is fastened on each thought, and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain- spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the travelling monument of despair and melancholy. HELPS 417 TEA In China cold water is disliked and considered unwholesome , and therefore tea is taken to quench the thirst , which it does best when unmixed , without either milk or sugar. The practice of scenting tea is very common in China , and various odoriferous plants are employed for this purpose. In Russia , a squeeze , or a slice , of lemon often takes the place of our cream ; and in Germany , where the tea is made very weak , it is common to flavour it with rum , cinnamon or vanilla. “ The most perfect way of using tea” says Professor Johnson , “ is that described , I think , by Captain Basil Hall, as that practised on the Coast of South America, where the leaves, after being exhausted by infusion, are handed round the company on a silver salver, and partaken of by each guest in succession. The exhilarating effects of the hot liquid are in this practice followed by the nutritive effects of the solid leaf.” A Chinese legend relates that a pious hermit, who in his watchings and prayers had often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cut them off and threw them on the ground. But a god caused a tea shrub to spring out of them, the leaves of which exhibit the form of the eyelid bordered with lashes, and possess the gift of hinder- ing sleep. DR. URE r* Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. JOHNSON 418 PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND BON, LTD. PLYMOUTH RECORD OF TREATMENT, EXTRACTION, REPAIR, etc. Pressmark: Binding Ref No: 2l3if Microfilm No: Date Particulars Chemical Treatment Fumigation Deacidification 5 p rCv^ KT bA Lamination Solvents Leather Treatment Adhesives Remarks

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CHEERFULNESS-A LIFE INSPIRATION Be cheerful , no matter what reverse obstruct your pathway , or what plagues follow in your trail to annoy you . Ask yourself what is to be gained by looking or feeling sad when troubles throng around you , or how your condition is to be alleviated by abandoning yourself to despondency ? If you are a young man , nature designed you “to be of good cheer ” ; and should you find your road to fortune, fame , or respectability , or any other boon to which your heart aspires , a little thorny , consider it all for the best , and that these impediments are only thrown in your way to induce greater efforts and more patient endurance on your part . Far better spend a whole life in diligent, aye, cheerful and unremitting toil, though you never attain the pinnacle of your ambitious desires, than to turn back at the first appearance of misfortune, and allow despair to unnerve your energies, or sour your naturally sweet and cheerful disposition . If you are of the softer, fairer, portion of humanity, be cheerful , though we know full well that most afflictions are sweet to you when compared with disappointment and neglect ; yet let hope banish despair and illforebodings. Be cheerful ; do not brood over fond hopes unrealised, until a chain, link after link, is fastened on each thought, and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountainspring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the travelling monument of despair and melancholy. HELPS TEA In China cold water is disliked and considered unwholesome , and therefore tea is taken to quench the thirst , which it does best when unmixed , without either milk or sugar. The practice of scenting tea is very common in China , and various odoriferous plants are employed for this purpose. In Russia , a squeeze , or a slice , of lemon often takes the place of our cream ; and in Germany , where the tea is made very weak , it is common to flavour it with rum , cinnamon or vanilla. “ The most perfect way of using tea” says Professor Johnson , “ is that described , I think , by Captain Basil Hall, as that practised on the Coast of South America, where the leaves, after being exhausted by infusion, are handed round the company on a silver salver, and partaken of by each guest in succession. The exhilarating effects of the hot liquid are in this practice followed by the nutritive effects of the solid leaf.” A Chinese legend relates that a pious hermit, who in his watchings and prayers had often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cut them off and threw them on the ground. But a god caused a tea shrub to spring out of them, the leaves of which exhibit the form of the eyelid bordered with lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep. DR. URE r* Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. JOHNSON PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND BON, LTD. PLYMOUTH RECORD OF TREATMENT, EXTRACTION, REPAIR, etc. Pressmark: Binding Ref No: 2l3if Microfilm No: Date Particulars Chemical Treatment Fumigation Deacidification 5 p rCv^ KT bA Lamination Solvents Leather Treatment Adhesives Remarks

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