The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-28
Comfortable PeOple.

tVHIitl ttust lSOPiCs
Do you know any? Are they few or
scarce among us? What are comforta-
bic people: If L questioned what are
uncomfortable people everybody would
have an answer ready. But the few of
u kind we are looking for-do you
know them? Why are they so few?
Said friend one day: ''My grand
.mothcr was such q comfortable soul !!
| You loved to be where she was. We
children would always do anything for
her and always knew where to find
| quarter in any disaster. And the fun
of it was, if two of us quarreled, we
brought up together always at grand
mothers door. She never seemed to
have an ache or pain, never asked for
your sympathy because she was old,
and yet we always gave it, were always
bringing bits of comfort to her. Big
boys and little girls, mother and father,
all of us loved to be where she was.
She used to say: My day is past.
dearie; Pm not of much account; :
but always she said it with such a hap
by smile, as if it were all happiness
Just the same simply to be with us:
She was a comfortable old lady, and
we missed her sadly for many q long
day."
There is q comfortable mother we
know of, where the children came in
| from school with jolly little laugh as
she opens wide the door in welcome.
There is something about her that
comes down to the little ones and is IN
sympathy with them always. There
| is q cake mot over rich) on the shelf
| Just to save butter and crumbs, when
school is out, that they may divide and
! digest after their own fashion. Some
how there is never any "strapping."
Its-"Johnny, mamma said not to.
and you know how good she is to u.s."
Or it is-"I'm going in to ask mamma.
She'll have time to help me-" And af-
ter while it is-"Let's go in and help
mammal Longing to be with some
body who loves them; longing to be
where they are not in the Way-why?
Because mamma isn't nervous; hasn't
got a headache; doesn't think children
such bother; isn't running the sew
| ing machine and can't be hindered or
in other words is comfortable woman.
Here comes "our John" Oh, he is
Just the best fellow in the world. II 1t
rains to-day he doesn't growl, but
guesses it will be clear tomorrow, and
in any case he doesn't believe it will
make much difference to the clerk OF
the weather whether he is pleased or
not. He doesn't sit down and want
you to "keep still" or wonder what
on earth you do so much trottlng about
for" He doesn't sit down and with
one eye on the paper and one on you,
wonder what you are going to do next.
He doesn't take up all the room in the
I55itchen with his long legs and his
Boots, and wonder what you want to
"putter round the stove so much for"
Not he. He is comfortable" fel-
low, and keeps out of your way. He
goes "a mending" and you don't know
he is in the house so far as annoyance
to you is concerned. Or he comes in
with Joke or something new for you
to think about. Maybe he gives you
'lift" on some "big job" you've been
thinking about a good while. In fact,
he makes you wish there were more
rainy days than there are, because he is
a comfortable fellow.
How many of us have comfortable
children? Yet why should they not
be? Don't uncomfortable people
make children uncomfortable ?
Mamma" says my boy, somehow
that woman makes me feel uncomfor-
table when she's here; she seems 30
snappy all the time. want to say
just what she says to see if it won't
hurt something or somebody. want
to pull the cats tail or kick the dog"
So do you not think her own children
want to kick something too?
Good people cultivate comfort, the
comfort that has time to live, to be hap
py, to be cheerful, to make people wish
to be where you are, because you are
not eternally fretting and fuming
about what you can't help. If you
can help things, why don't you; but if
you can not, why bel uncomfortable
about them? Is it your duty to "bor-
row trouble" to magnify every ache
or pain, by talking about it? Stop a
moment and read thought or two OF
somebody's from paper and so. get a
thought outside Of yourself. There
are lots Of "good times" and fun in the
world, great deal more that would
balance the misery, and, though you
may not be ''in 'em," they are good to
think about. Think of somebody
whose troubles are infinitely worse
than yours, and you have no idea how
much more fortunate you will think
YOU are Just in proportion to your
personal comfort will the comfort
around you be increased, and if each
and all would endeavor to be comforta-
bic we should all be great deal happi-
err. s.. Titus, in The CtELtiUdtOr.