The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-06-10
REMEDY FOR THE BLUES.

From the BOSTON Poet.
"Some bodies are such fools,
For all their colleges and schools,
When no real ills pcrpIex them,
They make enough themselves To vex them. -
Cheerfulness is just n natural TO man In good
health as color TO his cheek. The blood Of a mel
aneholy man is thick aud slow, creeping through
his veins like siagnant water in n canal; the blood
Of the merry, healthy, happy man Is as brisk as
sparkling champagne. To get your blood In mo-
tion, don't 90 to guIsing down gin.cocktails, sun
flower brandy, smashes or any Of the other numcr-
compounds in which alcohol is disguised, for
the devil will always beat you in barter. Set
yourself in swift motion on rough ground, or "up
the high hill heaye n huge round stone; do any
thing that will star; the Precipitation and you will
soon cease 90 have your brain lined with black. OF
covered with the mud Of melancholy. The human
heart Is like a millsione. when you put wheat un.
der IL; il grinds, and brings the wheat into -four
IL you put In no grain IL grinds itself away. BS
careful and not become the slave Of bad weather
as II will rule you with the rod of tyrant. Loco
motives run the best. IL is said, in fair weather
but you not n machine. though "fearfully and
wonderfully made" The most pitiable man Is on,
who has made his constitution, by habits Of pure
cussedness servile 20 the changes of the barometer
lie allows the rise Of the mercury TO make him
beggar or as rich a. Ro,hchild or a. brave n.
Caesar, or a. treacher us as Judas orc uiteau.-
Whatever misfoFtunes we may have. we should
never give up TO "thc blues" let gaunt despaii
have " the hip. II misfortune chances 10 hit
you, you must equally hit something else.
Are you at the bottom of the wheel of fortune
Hold fast. rs the next turn may bring you 20 th'
top. Don't imag gine because you have dropped
stitch in your side, that you must be wholly un
raveled and knit over again. you consume -
much At each meait you have got the eOnsump
tion, OF think because you put twenty I've cent
into the contribution box you may die of enlarge
ment Of the heart. There Is nothing like \ goo'
hearty laugh to frightsn the blues. No man eve
commits suicide with n smile on his face.
Some that are Of an III and melancholy nature
incline the company into which they come 20 b
sad and ill.dsposed. aud others that Of jovia
nature, dispose the company TO be merry an'
cheerful. OF all the bores that are inflicted upoI
social lifc none IL more disag greeable than th'
sour tempered man.
Not eonten,ed with being miserable, cross ans
disagreeable himself. he insists upon making
everybody else so, II he can II is not best 10 le
such persons have their way. The sour man j
always sour. The milk of hutsan kindness in hi
heart l. eurdled. nature has given him quantuu
sutfeit Of lemon juice but has forgotten the sac
charine ingredient. BE your opinions what the!
may. however undeniable, correct OF well digested
he is sure 10 object 10 them. These men Of clon
gated. lugubrious vi.ase. fro~n out Of existence
even the scintiiiation of n smile and shut VI
every facctiOus mouth however highly charge,
with intellectual electricity. There il nothinI
the modern Puritan more enjoys than his inheri
ted sulkiness, = cherished demon conveyed TO hin
in the breath of every east wind. When soure'
BY disappointment must endeavor to Pursu,
some dxed, pleasing course Of study. that ther'
may DO no blank leaf in our book Of life. Painfu
and disag agrecable ideas vanish from the mind tina
can tx its attention upon any subject. Acheerfu
temper. joined with innocence. will make beaui
attractive, knowledge delightful. and Wit good
naturcd. II will tighten sickness, poverty an
affection. convert ignorance into an aniable sim
piicity, and almost render deformity itself agree
able.
Talk not Of fortune. talk not Of fate.
We make our own troubles, however We pratt
This world would be honey, where now IL
gall.
Were We only contented and merry withai.