St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-11

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Dora Reed G0oddle. in st. Nicholas.
J, ''Now, Bette, apply it to your days
troubles. How about the breakfastP'
II might have reflected, y said Bette,
s'that it would have been better to have
deferred talking about it till after
Breakfast, and then have confined my
remarks to the cook, whose fault it
was
Exactly said Aunt Winnifred,
land would not the day have gone
more smoothly with the dressmaker if
you had not fretted so much about the
sleeves?n
Yes said Bette, land 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.. Weston would
mot have known what he was eating; but
was worried and glum, and hardly
said a word"
81 might have, too,' said Aunt Win
nifred, s.but at any rate | should have
tried not to let an unlucky accident
cheat me out of good dinner, and my
peace of mind, too. Be determined that
whatever else you lose, you will not
yield that to Dame Worry.
1T is good rule" said Bette, land
i will try it.
The next few days went more
smoothly with Bette. whether because
she thought ofthe Recipe or not, but
the following week brought her an
other unlucky day with Dame Worry
in its wake, and Bette had need of all
her patience and frmness. To begin
with, the children were wofully disap-
pointed because snow-storm pre-
vented long-talked-of excursion, and
Bette saw that the something to be
done" was to amuse them in some
aother way. This she began at once to
do, instead of indulging in an ok-time
fit of worrying at so unexpected an in
terruption to her own busily planned
day.
Later on, choice plate was broken
by one of the children, but instead OF
wasting time in useless laments, Bette
promptly set about mending it. and
succeeded so well she was astonished.
But the most trying thing of the day
was caused by a servants stupidity.
Bette was caught in her wrapper by
fashionable caller, but instead of col
tlapsing from sheer embarrassment and
annoyance. she determined Dame
Worry should not cheat her out of her
peace of mind, and accordingly apollo
gized so prettily and with such compo-
sure that her visitor was charmed.
Bette did not, of course, always sue
coed in controlling herself in this way,
but as the weeks flew by, Dame Worry
was less and less seen in the Orion
household; and as for Bette, the new
calm and repose OF her hitherto some
what excited manner lent her a charm
which she had never before possessed.
At last came trial test. One even
ing, about year later, Bettie's father
told her that owing to the failure of
hitherto trustworthy bank, large part
of their property was lost, and they
must greatly change their mode Of liv-
ing.
Bette did not sleep much that night.
She had 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 sweet slum-
Der, from which she aWoke with new
energy for the unusual cares before her.
After that, Mr.. Orion was daily as
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.. Orion
was comforted and strengthened for
the new burdens which now fell upon,
him.
Dear Bette said he one night
some months after, when the worst
had passed and his affairs again as
sumed brighter prospect, you little
know how your cheerfulness helped
me over that crisis. think if you
had worried about it, as John Black
mans daughter did when he lost his
money, / should almost have gone
crazy, as he did. !"
ss0h, papa, said Bette, shuddering
at the bare possibility, II should have
been hard-hearted wretch to have
added to your trouble by useless COM
planning; and then, after all, could
not get Aunt Winifred's 'Anti-Worry
Recipe out Of my head. " Z. Oh