Sunshine Factory

Oh, dear! it always does rain when I want to go anywhere, cried little Jennie Moore. It's too bad! Now I've got to stay in-doors all day, and I know I shall have a wretched day.
Perhaps so, said Uncle Jack; but you need not have a bad day unless you choose.
How can I help it? I wanted to go to the park and hear the band, and take Fido and play on the grass, and have a good time, and pull wild flowers, and eat sandwiches under the trees; and now there isn't going to be any sunshine at all, and I'll have to just stand here and see it rain, and see the water run off the ducks' backs.
Well, let's make a little sunshine, said Uncle Jack.
Make sunshine, said Jennie; why how you do talk! and she smiled through her tears. You haven't got a sunshine factory, have you?
Well, I'm going to start one right off, if you'll be my partner, replied Uncle Jack.
Now, let me give you three rules for making sunshine: First, don't think of what might have been if the day had been better. Second, see how many pleasant things there are left to enjoy; and, lastly, do all you can to make other people happy.
Well, I'll try the last thing first; and she went to work to amuse her little brother Willie, who was crying. By the time she had him riding a chair and laughing, she was laughing too.
Well, said Uncle Jack, I see you are a good sunshine-maker, for you've got about all you or Willie can hold now. But let's try what we can do with the second rule.
But I haven't anything to enjoy; 'cause all my dolls are old, and my picture-books all torn, and—
Hold, said Uncle Jack; here's a newspaper. Now let's get some fun out of it.
Fun out of a newspaper! Why, how you talk.