Middletown transcript., 1877-04-28
borrowing Trouble.

I
swami There are plenty other SusaI
to be had "
II don't know" answered Mr.
Towne, ruefully. "Help seems to
getting worse and worse all the tim,
I'm shre it wasn't SO when wi
young"
"Perhsps not, my dear" said Mr.
Strong. for you may be younger than
am. But I remember. in my mother
time, there was just as much trOubl
with servants.
"But," said Mrs. Towne, "baby wi
be teething this summer, and whateye
1 shall do without Susan l can't tell
What right has she to get married ?"
Little, jovial Mrs Strong laughe
very heartily at this
.'I'm afraid as much right" she sal
good-humoredly. as you or had. :
Have you tried to get one to 6ll be
place ?"
whats the use ? / know l shan
succeed. Some worthless creature vii
come that will be cripple for life
Oh, dear p
"But try. There's just as mucE
chance for good nurse applying as I
bad one"
'.It's no use There'll never be an
other Susan"
"Come. come, I've kept house as
long as you have, and can't afford to
pay any higher wages than you do, yet
| have managed to get along, and find
plenty of Susans. Of course one don't
get an angel for what we pay year.
But if one servant goes. I look out for
another, and l always expect before
hand to secure as good one as l lose
So in everything else. I tell you, my
dear Mrs. Towne, life is a good deal
more what we make it than at first one
would suppose. If We take troubles
easy, they generally smoothe their path
for themselves.
II never knew people to get along
who did that. We are not fed as the
ravens are. We've got to work and
worry"
Work, yes Worry, mol At least
not too much. I never meant one
should make no effort. To sit down
with ones hands in ones lap is just
what condemn. But always hope for
the best. Trouble comes soon enough,
and there is always enough of it. Why
should we make it greater by worrying
over it in advance p
"Oh, yes, 1 know. You always
take it that way. But you're strong
and healthy little worries don't affect
you, while I-weIl-I'm that nervous
that I'm ready to cry sometimes"
Have you never thought, my dear, F"
said Mrs. Strong, kindly, "that this
worrying might be the cause of your
nervousness? I'm very sure that if l
gave way to every little trouble,
should soon lose my health. But l
say, even when | fail, better luck next
time | will not allow myself to be
iisheartened. What has a wiser than
either of us said /? Sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof"
ut is real good to hear you talk /;
and your coming to see me in this way.
when Pm down-hearted, does cheer me
up, I'll admit; but it's in my nature
% worry-and there's the end Of it
What else can a woman with five child
'en, and only able to keep half the
lelp she needs, do but worry 2"
"YOu forget" replied Mrs. Strong,
augbing again, "that l have five child
EN- also, and that, SO far as money
,oes, you are better off than am
Why. my dear, when you went to
housekeeping, and could afford to have
,lush-coVered furniture for your parlor
While had to put up with horse-hair,
came nearer being euvious than 1 ever
lid in my life But I knew my hus-
'and's comparative poverty couldn't be
IelPed, and SO l made the best of it,"
Mrs Strong was right
Her friends habit Of worrying was
eally the principal cause of her i'll
ealth, for at eighteen, she, who was
ow Mrs. ToWne, had been altogether
be handsomer of the two; tall, 1.-the,
nd willowly in figure, with fine color,
nd face the very picture Of health.
But after her marriage, she had
allen into the habit of thinking that
be must of necessity, always be sick,
r her children sick, or her servants
bout to leave, or some other trouble
e impending; and this at thirty, had
rOught her to the faded, querulous
oman we see while her old school
late, by pursuing an exactly opposite
purse, had retained her health, her
oirits, and her good looks, and was
bic to laugh at all the lesser evils of
fe.
A BEAUrIFUL THOUGHT When the
lmmer of youth is slowly wasting
way on the nightfall of age, and the
ladow of the path becomes deeper, and
fe wears to its close, it is pleasant to
ok at the vista of time upon the sor-
'ws and felicities of our earlier years.
we had home to shelter and hearts
rejoice with US, and friends have
zen gathered around our freside, the
uOh Dlaces of wavfarino will bava