and mayhap their little ones. This little indication of common suffering made the feathered family seem much closer to the human. (Text.)
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Suffering, Unnecessary—See Help Unrecognized.
Suffrage, Woman—See Retort, A.
SUGGESTION
A few years ago in a certain part of England
the weather was so continuously beastly—that's
the term they used—that at last,
wearying of looking at the barometers day
after day, week in and week out, the entire
inhabitants of a certain seaport town, in
sheer disgust, gathered up their weather-*glasses
and dumped them into the old junk
shops. Both the weather and the barometers
flooded them with disagreeable suggestions.
They could not do away with the
weather, but they could with their barometers
that seemed to serve no better purpose
than to accentuate their discontent.—Robert
MacDonald.
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Sometimes a word or phrase will do in literature what a sketch will do in charcoal, defining a character and suggesting a whole line of possibilities. An instance of this is in the following from Everybody's Magazine:
After a certain jury had been out an inordinately
long time on a very simple case,
they filed into the courtroom, and the foreman
told the judge they were unable to
agree upon a verdict. The latter rebuked
them, saying the case was a very clear one,
and remanded them back to the jury-room
for a second attempt, adding, "If you are
there too long I will have to send you in
twelve suppers."
The foreman, in a rather irritated tone, spoke up and said: "May it please your honor, you might send in eleven suppers and one bundle of hay."
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See Negative Teaching.
Suggestion, Unhealthy—See Talking and
Sickness.
SUICIDE PREVENTED
Some time since a young man who had
spent his substance in riotous living was reduced
to poverty. He wandered away from
home, and being unable to support himself,
he resolved upon self-destruction. He filled
his pockets with lead, and, determined to
drown himself, went to the river. Deciding
to wait until dark, he was attracted by a
light in the window of a house at no great
distance, and went to it. The people were
singing hymns. He listened at the door until
a chapter from the Bible was read and prayer
was offered to God. When the prayer was
ended he knocked at the door and was admitted.
The passage under consideration
that evening was, "Do thyself no harm."
When the services were concluded the
stranger asked them how they came to know
his thoughts, for he had not mentioned his
intention. The members of the meeting were
equally surprized, as they had never before
seen him. The young man then told them
his design of taking his life and how he
had been prevented. He became an eminent
Christian. (Text.)
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SUMMER IN THE HEART
Springtime may lose its freshest tints,
And autumn-leaves their gold.
The bitter blast and snowy wreath
May sweep across the wold;
But the years are full of splendors
That never will depart,
For they shed eternal fragrance
When there's summer in the heart.
The shadows linger on the earth,
The sunbeams hide away;
The sad mists fold their chill white hands
About the face of day;
The tumult and the rush of life
Sound ay in street and mart;
But they can not drown life's music
When there's summer in the heart.
The city towers are crumbling fast,
And totter to their fall;
The ivied castle on the height
Shows many a ruined wall;
But men build eternal buildings
With strange and wondrous art;
They are shrines for the immortals
When there's summer in the heart.
—Montreal Star.
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Sun The, as a Witness—See Tests.
SUN, THE BUSINESS OF A
I remember walking in Switzerland, late
in the evening in a raging thunder-storm.
The darkness could be felt as well as the
rain. Little points of light now and then
