lamp a bit and think how pretty it will look when clean and trimmed. Then think of the oil as a great cleaner --- remember how it will shine zinc or take pitch off. Then think how nicely hot water and soap will finish the cleaning, and clean white cloths polish it all. Now get plenty of hot water and soap and see how beautifully you can polish chimneys and shades, and what fun you can get out of making an artistic success of that lamp. Play with it ! Talk to it, as a child talks to its playthings ! Enjoy it! Put your thought into your doing. You can make fun out of anything if you persist in putting your mind into your work, instead of doing it as hastily and slightingly and with as little thought as you can.

All this time that I was fixing the habit of doing only what I loved to do, I was likewise suggesting to myself over and over, that I loved to do anything I had to do. So I was working from both ends of the matter, and I made a success of it, as one is certain to do if he goes in to win and sticks to it.

If I caught myself thoughtlessly saying, "I don't like to do this," I should turn instantly and take pains to pull up that statement by the roots and throw it out. I should deny the suggestion and affirm that I like to do anything I find to do.

It is God-like to love what we do. It is divine. We are divine, and we should take pains to live divinely --- take pains in detail. For every idle word brings us to judgment and punishment, if the idle statements are left to grow until we come to feel them. About three-quarters of our "don't like" words are not meant at first --- they are idly said. But we have a habit of growing up, or down, to our statements. So