Article May 4, 1912 Issue

MY MONITOR BOARD

KATE D. GRANT POHL.

Some time ago I asked my husband to make me a softwood board about twenty-six inches long and six inches wide and to put hooks and wire on it so that it could be hung on the wall. Naturally he asked what it was for, so I explained that I wanted something on which to tack newspaper clippings, memoranda, messages from friends, poems, or any good ideas that I happened to find in reading or studying. A day or so afterward he brought me a pretty green-stained board which now hangs by my desk, and it has proven a comfort and real pleasure.

Have not others often found something so good in the morning paper that it was laid by with the intention of reading it again, only days afterward to find the paper and realize that there was not time to reread what had been so much enjoyed? When I find such a thing now it can be clipped out and with a little glass thumb tack placed on my Monitor board, where not only I may read it at a glance, but bring it to the attention of my whole family.

At the top of my own board is a New Year greeting from a friend, and just beneath is a much loved bit of advice from a teacher who thus counseled his pupils, "Take the sting out of everything that you do." This I wrote on a little card with a purple thistle and added, "It is not so much what you do as the way you do it." The next card is a New Year greeting from the Hon. E. H. Gillette, a former congressman from Iowa and a brother of the well-known actor; one sentence is especially fine: "Churches were full of sectarianism, superstition, and close communion, with frequent shots at each other. Now they are uniting and wondering what they had quarreled about." Then comes a newspaper clipping in which Henry Van Dyl asks whether we are willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to stop asking how much our friends love us, but rather ask how much we love them.

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