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and used her candle molds and goose quill pen,
in lieu of better tools undreamed of then,
and possibly our own descendants may
Smile, in superior fashion, at the sight.
Of many things of which we're proud today
Our telephones, steam heat and patent light,
and sigh a bit and wonder as they laugh
at our dear, quaint, old-fashioned phonograph."

Emilie T. Massey gave a single good paragraph

"The Word That Lifts"

"How many people have you enthusiastically
commended in the last 24 hrs? Perhaps if we kept
a written record of our heartily uttered commendations,
spoken directly to the one commended,
we should be surprised to discover how little
of it we are doing. One of the easiest and surest
ways of helping others to do their best, it is one
of the most neglected of methods. To tell a
person of something good that we see in him,
or of something that he has accomplished
well, is tenfold more effective a way of getting
him to do still better than to tell him of one
of his failures."

India Downey's offering was also short and admirable.

"Count That Day Lost"

"If we sit down at set of sun,
and count the things that we have done
and counting, find
One self-denying act, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went,
Then we may count that day well spent.

But if through all the live long day,
We've eased no heart by yea or nay;
If through it all
We've done no thing that we can trace
That brought the sunshine to a face,
No act most small
That helped some soul, and nothing cost,
Then count that day as worse than lost."

Pattie T. Farquhar advised us to be "lifters
and not drifters". If we allow ourselves to be