The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-07-20
COMFORTABLE PEOPLE.

Do you know any? Are they few or scarce
| among us What are comfortable peOple?-
| If questioned what are uncomfortable people
| everybody would have an answer ready. But
| the few Of a kind we are looking for-do you
know them? Why are they SO few? Said a
friend one day: my grandmother was such
a comfortable soul You loved to be where
she was. We children would always do any
thing 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 to-
| gether always at grandmothers 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 bring
ing 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 I'm not of much account; but
always she said it with such happy 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 a long
day.
There is a comfortable mother we wot of,
where the children come in from school with
ajolly 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 a cake
(not over rich) on the shelf just to save butter
and crumbs, when school is out that they NAV
divide and digest after their own fashion.
Somehow their is never any "strapping." It's
how good she is to u.s." Or it is-"Pm going
in to ask mamma. She'll have time to help
me-" And after while it is-"Let's 20 in and
help mamma" Longing to be with somebody
who loves them; longing to be where they are
not IN the way-why? Because mamma isn't
nervous; hasn't got headache; doesn'ttbink
children such bother; isn't running the sew
ing machine and can't be hindered; or in other
words is a comfortable woman.
here comes our John" Oh, he is just the
best fellow in the world. If it rains to-day he
doesn't growl, but guesses it will be clear to-
morrow 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, I"
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 kitchen
with his long legs and his boots, and wonder
what you want. to ''patter round the stove so
fellow 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
nit 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 uncom-
Portable people make children uncomfortable?
Mamma" says my boy, somehow that wo-
man makes me uncomfortable when she's
here; she seems so snappy all the time |
want to say just what she says to see if it won't
hurt something or somebody l 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 happy, to be cheer
full, 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 be uncomfortable about them? Is
it your duty to 'borrow trouble to magnify
every ache or pain, by talking about it? Stop
a moment and read thought or two of some
body's from apaper and so get a thought out
side of yourself There are lots of "goOd
times" and fun in the world, great deal more
than would balance the misery and though
you may not be Sin EN-" 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 comfortable we should all be
great deal happier.-E. s. Titus, IN Mannheim
Sentinel