To fulfill a dream, to be allowed
to sweat over lonely labor,
to be given a chance to create,
is the meat and potatoes of life.
The money is the gravy.
- Bette Davis


My Wage

I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty score.

For life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
Jessie B. Rittenhouse


A Treasure Chest
of Hidden Treasures

"Twas long ago I read the story sweet
Of how the German mothers, over the sea,
Wind in throughout the yarn their girlies knit,
Some trinkets small, and tiny shining coins,
That when the little fingers weary grow,
And fain would lay aside the tiresome task,
From out the ball will drop the hidden gift,
To please and urge them on in search for more.
And so, I think, the Father kind above
Winds in and out the skein of life we weave,
Through all the years, bright tokens of His love,
That when we weary grow and long for rest
They help to cheer and urge us on for more;
And far adown within the ball we find,
When all the threads of life at last are spun,
The grandest gift of all
eternal life."
Anonymous


Treasure

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find
than a five-pound note. He or she is a
radiating focus of good-will; and their entrance
into a room is as though another candle had been
lighted. We need not care whether they should
prove the forty-seventh proposition;
they do a better thing than that
they pratically demonstrate the great Theorem
of the Livableness of Life.
Rober Louis Stevenson


I am rich today, a baby ran to meet me,
And put her tiny hand within my own
And smiled, her rosy lips a flower,
The light within her eyes, from heaven shone.
And when I crossed the fields the birds were singing,
A golden blossom in my pathway lay,
It wasn't much; but, oh, the joy there's in it,
To have a baby smile at you
In just that way.
Marguerite A. Gutschow

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