Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-02

COnL6nLSu anu even ulSpOSltIOu ScCm>
ed to be changing One day some
body gave ne bit of advice, turn
ed into ryhme. 1t is not very smooth,
I grant, but the jingle has helped me
remember what call my Anti
Worry Recipe
DO you wish a recipe for preventing all
worry,
For giving composure and freedom from
furry?
Just think of one fact. which is true you will
find:
When anything happens 10 ruff1e your mind,
First something or nothing there is to be done,
flrst nothlng or SoDnothsHr mats clear as the
If something, then do it and make no delay;
If nothing, all thoughts of it cast far away.
This simplest of rules, If you ii only obey,
Will free you from wrinkles for many day
Now, Bette, apply it to your day s
troubles. How about the breakfast %
''I might have reflected" said Bet
tie, ''that it would have been better to
have deferred talking about it till
after breakfast, and then have con-
fined nay remarks to the cook, whose
fault it was.
Exactly" said Aunt Winnifred,
"and would not the day have gone
more smoothly with the dressmaker
if you had not fretted so much about
the sleeves?"
Eyes" said Bette, ''and at dinner,
instead of being put out and bothered
because it wasn't what you could
have wished, you would have been SO
serene and entertaining that DR.. Yves
ton would not have known what he
was eating; but was worried and
glum, and hardly said word"
Il might have, too," said Aunt
| Winnifree, "but at any rate | should
have tried not to let an unlucky accls
dent cheat ne out of a good dianer.
and my peace OF mind, too. Be de-
termlned that whatever else you lose,
you will not yield that to Dame Wor-
ry."
"It is good rule, " said Bette, land
I will try it."
The next few days went more
smoothly with Bette, whether be-
cause she thought of the ''Recipe" or
not, but the following week brought
her another unIucky day with Dame
Worry in its wake, and Bette had
need of all her patience and firmness
To begin with, the children were wo-
fully disappointed because a snow
storm prevented long talked-of ex~
curslon, and Bette saw that the
something to be done" was to amuse
them IN some other way. This she
began at once to do, instead of indulg-
| Ing IN an Ulo -tira1e Gt Uf worrying al
so unexpected an interruption to her
own busily planned day.
Later on, a choice plate was broken
by one of the children, but instead of
wasting time IN useless laments, Bet
tie promptly set about mending 1t,
and succeeded so well she was aston
ished But the most trying thing
was caused by servants stupidity.
Bette was caught Ia her wrapper by
a fashionable caller, but instead of
collapsing from sheer embarrassment
and annoyance, she determined Dame
| Worry should not cheat her out of
her peace of mind, and accordingly
apologised so prettily and with such
composure that her visitor was
charmed.
Bette did not, of course. always
succeed in controlling herself in this
way, but as the weeks flew by, Dame
Worry was less and less seen in the
| Orton household; and as for Bette,
the new calm and repose of her hith~
erto somewhat excited manner lent
her q charm which she had never
| before possessed.
At last came trial test. One ev-
ening about year later, Bettie's
father told her that owing to the fail
ure of a hitherto trustworthy bank, a
large part of their property was lost,
and they must greatly change their
mode of living.
Bette did not sleep much that night.
She bad a hard struggle with Dame
Worry, but at last, after a firm resolve
and an earnest prayer to be kept from
adding one jot to her fathers troubles
by worrying, she fell into a sweet
slumber, from which she awokc with
new energy for the unusual cares be-
fore her.
After that Mr.. Orton was daily u.s.
tonished at Bette. She cheered the
children and fell to planning so ener-
getically the reduction of the house
hold expenses. she managed to keep
up such good courage and even GER
tain infectious gayety, that Mr.. Orton
was c0mforied and strengthened for
Luo Lew DurGSuS Nu1Cu bON 4S11 UHOu
him.
Dear Bette" said he one night
some month"; after, when the worst
had passed and his affairs again as
sumed a brighter prospect, you little
know how your cheerfuiness helped
nae over the crisis. I think if you had
worried about it, as John Blackman's
daughter did when he lost his money,
I should almost have gone crazy, as
he did"
"Oh, papa" said Betty, shuddering e
at the bare possibility, Il should have
| been hard hearted wretch to Rave
added to your trouble by useless com
planning; and then after all, l could
not get Aunt Winifred's 'Anti-W Worry
| Recipe out of my head"