San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-26
TROUBLE BORROWE Frs.
PEOPLE WHO PERSIST IN pROPHE-
SY!NG UNPLEASANTNESS.
Men and Women Who Live in Continual
Anticipation of Disaster-A Long List
of Forebodings-An Ancient Story of
Welsh Legend.

welsh Legend.
There is an ancient weather tradition about
the month of March borrowing certain days
from April, which she pays back, not in the
same weather that she borrows, but in one
of her own glorious gales, at 4 later date,
and this is perhaps the most poetical express
sion of the borrowing of trouble that we
have Those who borrow trouble, however,
are seldom in the habit of paying it back
with the scrupulositv of the month of March
in the tradition, they keep it for themselves,
they roll it over and let it gather accretion,
they make much of it, and they grow so
d weary with the weight of 1t that when real
trouble comes there is no strength to bear
that, and the nervous powers fail at the time
when they are most needed.
Is there to be that most festive of all festi-
walls in the family, wedding, the trouble
borrower is sure that the bride is lamb led
to the slaughter, or that the bridegroom is
now to be lost forever to the family in being
adopted into the new wifes family, and that
nobody knows where they will all be year
from that day Or else the trouble borrower
is sure that the church will be cold and they
will get their deaths, or the dress will never
come from the dressmaker's in time, or, with
the lovers well known diletory character, he
will be sure to be late at his own wedding.
Not even funeral satisfies this trouble bor-
rower-an occasion when one might feel as If
there were already on the spot trouble and to
spare. it certainly could not be expected that
any one could be late at ones own funeral,
in spite of the feelings of the heirs Of rich
men who persist in living; yet there as well
as elsewhere the borrower will be sure
to find reason to anticipa disaster At
the christening, again, it is the borrower
who, if not the bad fairy of evil gifts III per
son, is the one who sees that fairy coming,
Fever by any possibility the bright fairy, the
good fairy; and child does not undergo
teething in the family where the borrower
makes q home, for which, from the first
tooth to the last, trouble is not to DO ex-
trarted An urchin cannot be sent TO school
from that family where the borrower does
no; forcseo an overtaxed brain and nervous
disease, and it cannot stay away from school
where there is not at once forecast OF
du2ce
In business matters it Is as bad: this debtor
is not going 70 pay. that creditor " going I"
be inexorable. In all the concerns OF life, In
short the borrower is drawing on the future
always q bankrupt future in everything
but SORROW and even when 1t comes 70
death, the borrower illustrates this life with
the lurid light of the flames OF the bottomlees
nit, although more often concerned in that
light for others than for ones self, it may be
said This borrower Of ours extends operations
even into the outer affairs OF nature. There
is never q sunshiny. balmy day Of south
winds but it is a weather breeder, and the
borrower sees no sun today for the cloud and
storm of tomorrow. Are the first buds early,
the bluebirds here, and all things promising
a genial spring! Then 1t is untimely weather,
and the premature buds will all be nipped by
tho frosts to come, and there will be no fruit
On the other hand. has the bad weather held
its own till late, knowing apparently, with
that strange intelligence of the elements,
that everything will come on in tho stronger
and longer sunshine with about the same
CELEBRITY as if it had not had its own freer and
lingering play, the great law Of compensa-
tols acting with inanimate as with all other
Of the departments Of naturei Why, then
the summer is never going to be long enough
to ripen anything, and there should not DO
q real famine in consequence, yet prices will
put food out Of the reach Of the poor, and
the balance of trade between the continents
will be disturbed, and there will be change
in the rate Of discount Of the Bank Of Eng
land.
Nobody Is made so uncomfortable by an
this borrowing of trouble as the borrower
himself, although, Of course, everybody in
the region is disturbed and vsxed by the
habit 1t is habit that takes on serious
freaks sometimes. "If die said a woman
'tEts sort Just before breathing her last, Il
but If I-Get wall ! mean to have