The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-04-26

4 Chapter Vt Imaginary Woes
That Beset woman's Life.

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any one along klfsf never lt514sc nfty
ore happier. * does not drive away
chNass. nor remove mountains, MOI
make the insight clearer. nor the hears
lighter, nor the mind calmsr. II
destroys the temper, the appetite
the digestion and the general health.
Ii gives the face an unhappy express.
SION. affects the complexion and makes
wrinkles. III worrying women could
be thoroGghiv convinced of al this
shev would worry less. A Worrying
woman Is burden 90 herself. and an
infection 70 ala those With whom she
COMES in contact. 1t may not Re an
easy thing 20 cultivate calm and
cheerful way Of looking at things. but
ii can be done. A habit once formed
is one OF the most difficult things 10
get rid Of A pernici0as habit Is a
tyranf. bat a habit that benefits ones
self and helps ones neighhor Is a
delightful commander to serve. The
probation il sometimes long and tedi-
dious and the disciples severe, but
when one is fairly enlisted N the noble
army of the knights of the cheerful
habit the hardest part is over. and
henceforth the line Of march is COM
paratively easy It is always the first
steps that are difficult 10 take, in yir-
tues as well as in vice.
LIFE rs roc SHORT TO WORRY.
A writer attributes the anglllarity of
American women TO worry and says
that il increases with Indulgence ike
anger or appetite or love. or any other
human impulse It upsets the mind
and and units it for any kind of work
and surely the woman who worries,
who frets continually about TRIES, is
TO be avoided. The woman who jumps
up in the midst OF conversation 10
remove speck of dust from the piano,
who relates the worries OF her servants
to her guests. the woman who frets be.
cause her child has a rumpled dress.
or because some one brings q little
mud in on the carpet, and about many
other similar things that are of the
least possible consequence, are weari-
some TO the last possible degree Life
is too short to be spent in this way.
and, generally speaking, we have seri-
GUS troubles enough. To fiy into a
passion at some trifling occurrence
that Is not altogether pleasant, is
senseless. Look at the other side of
it. and perhaps il may be lgdicrons
side.
Most things have funny side If one
will only take the trouble to look for
IL; and Il one looks, one viii be sure to
find. Cultivate the habit of looking
on thing at every side until you come
to the funny side, ard then enjoy a
good laugh. ft Is so much better to
laugh than to cry, one feels far hap
pier afterward. and the laugh has q
cheering effect on those who hear il.
And. If wrinkles must come. as they
surely will as the years fly by, let them
come from laughter and not from
worry. Be not afraid OF laughing
wrinkles; fear only the wrinkles Of
worry; they are indeed. to be deplored
and fought against. No rubbing will
canse them 10 disappear; time viii
only deepen them. They can be avoid
ed, but they will not be driven away.
and who enjoys looking at fretfuI.
worried. wrinkled face? What charm
has Partisan toilet. be it ever SO ex-
quisite. ii the face above il is covered
with u network of fretful wrinkles ?
Since human beings look more at faces
than at anything else in the whole
course of their lives, they should do
all they can 30 make their own faces
and as the reflection of a
cheerful face--the light of the coun-
tenance;" what more expressive way,
than that can be devised for speaking
OF a cheerful facexil shine upon all
who see it.
DINE WE'LL AND LIVE WELL.
OF course life Is full of cares; every
one knows that, and every one has
cause to worry about something. II
the children are i'll, or the husband
has failed in business, these are things
that one naturally worries about.
These are the big things Of life that
must be borne and about which one
can NOT help Worrying.
But it is the little things OF life over
which people VERY most and which
are not worth worrying about. A
careful housekeeper will fret about the
way her servant enters the room be-
fore company, or passes q dish at
table, and frowns will settle down
upon her face that are seen by the
guests who have not seen the causes.
The woman viii worry necessarily
about her health. Ii she has the
smallest ache in any part OF her body
or the slightest feeling OF languor. the
whole household is upset, and for
few hours everything is in the widest
state of confusion, while the victim
for she certainly Is victim. To her
worrying Observation-Disclosures her
self n hundred times more i'll than she
Il, and dies many times before she
really dies once.
Another woman worries because she
is growing old. Oh. dearl Is not
every one growing old? Is she the
only person. that she should make
such q fuss about it? She viii not do
this nor shat, nor go here nor there,
nor sit in q strong light, for fear that
some one will discover gray hair, or
the tiniest suspicion of wrinkle. And
while she worries in this way she helps
TO make herself look old. She denies
herself the pleasure OF life because
some one NAV discover her age: and
so the years fiy by and she il old--ald
with years and Older with worry. Tn
happy herself and making those about
her unhappy: unlovei and unlovahle.
One writer attributes as one cause OF
fretfaIness the habit that some women
have OF undertaking themselves.
Whether II Is from carelcssness, from
general indifference TO food or on
account Of having no appetite. or be-
cause they are too busy TO give the
time - eat the proper quantity that
their system demands, many women
are uTiderfed. and the result is felt in
both mind and body.
Many women really live on two
meals day, taking only cup OF tea
and slice OF bread and butter Mt
noon. They say il II all they require
and all they want they conid not eat
anything more. But they deceive
themselves. for this Is not true. Il
may DC that they do not want To eat
more, but II so. II il because they have
not been properly trained. Eating is
9 matter OF training as much rs any
thing else, and ~ the system requires
a considerable amount of food 20 keen
the general health np 20 the proper
standard, women should be trimmed to
eat sufficient quantity OF Wholesome
food at regular hours. Three meals a
day, or even four. are not too much
for some women, and meat twire a
day IL Indispensable 20 good health.
Inderfeeding cannot be too severely
condemned. Ii weaasus the sysfenf.
making the victim liable TO an in
Vulnerable list o: ailments, such az
sore throat, backache and neuralgia.
besides many other ills which. when
once fastened on the system are Diff
cult 20 get riss of.