Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-08-06

hurry and worry over breakfast
hurry and worry over catching a
car or otherwise getting to their
business; and it is little else than
hurry and worry in a greater or
less degree until they end the days
work by trying to hurry themselves
to sleep and then worry themselves
into wakefulness, until the hours of
sweetest rest are past. When they
are not fretfully hurryIng they are
fretfully worrying. Instead of tax
ing things as they come and doing
the best they can with content,
they worry themselves into perspir-
alton and into chronic i'll temper,
all of which hurry death.
We have had a little foretaste of
the heated term this week, and how
many people could be noted on the
street, or at their daily employ
ment, looking and acting like peo-
ple of sense Women could be
seen tanning themselves so violent
ly as to throw them into excessive
heat, and men painted aud mopped
their faces as they hurried and
worried themselves along the short
est way to death. In heated sea-
sons the man or woman who hur-
ries and worries is simply a fool
They seem to study how they can
most aggravate the oppressive
weather. They rush along; they
fan and pant; they complain and
worry; and when they have ac-
compIished their labOrs, they are
as hurried and worried to get cool
as they were in getting hot. They
gulp down ice water or beer, in
crease their thirst and general dis
comfort by overlooking the stomach
with fluids, and in many cases take
colds which plant seeds of death.
Every class and condition of life
should understand that hurry and
worry bring no comfort and no
compensation. They hurry only
death. When the weather is OPP
pressively hot, the necessity is alb
solute that people should keep as
cool as possible. They should not
only dress coolly and keep in cool
places as much as they can cOnven-
iently, but they should think, speak
and act with the utmost cOOlness.
The man who, after hurrylng and
worrying to bolt his breakfast, bolts
of in q run to catch car or train,
is simply a picturesque idiot. True,
he might miss an hour or so from
his daily business but If instead
of provoking paroxysm of the heart
or apoplexy or fatal colds, he would
coolly sit down, read the evening
papers until the next train, and
then walk leisurely to it and keep
coolly and leisurely at his work all
the day, he would accomplish much
more, would be vastly more COM
Portable, and would surely lengthen
his days.
There is not one case of sun
stroke in a hundred that could not
be averted by the simplest and
cheapest method. 1t would cost
nothing for workingman who is
exposed to the sun to carry green
cabbage.leaf in the crown of his
hat, or to carry light handkerchief
there mOistened with water; but
they don't do it. 1t would cost
nothing to keep the head well ven
tilated, but most of them don't do
it; and men and horses are all hur-
ried and worried toward death by
refusing to observe the simplest
rules of common sense. Whatever
will best keep the head cool, is what
every man and woman should en-
ploy when exposed to oppressive
heat; and the surest way to heat
the head and brain and produce
both physicaland mental discomfort
is to hurry and worry. If much
work must be done, don't hurry or
worry. The best way to do It is to
begin early, work deliberately, rest
when weary, and never worry
"Do your best and leave the rest"
all the time, and do what you do
methodically and philosophically
and quit with content when you
can't do all that is desired. The
most proftless of all things is to
worry over what can't be helped,
and the next worst thing is to hur-
~ headlong and worry with it.
Keep cool if possible if not pos
sible, keep as cool as you can, and
never hurry or worry. They are
good for doctors and undertakers
and for peopling graveyards but
they never give health, comfort or
happiness to the living. Don't
hurry or worry.
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One little girl was heard to say
to a playmate: "When | grow up
Tm going to be a school teacher
"Well, Pm going to be a mama and
have six children" "When they
come to school to me Pm going to
whip them.' "You mean thing!
what have they ever done to you%