The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-06-01
DON'T WORRY.
New York star.
To worry or not to worry

To worry or not to worry7
Not to worry. Worry never helped any one
along, and never made any one happier. 1t does
not drive away clouds, nor remove mountains, nor
make the insight clearer the heart lighter,
nor the mind calmer. 1t destroys the temper, the
appetite, the digestion and the general health. II
gives the face an unhappy expression, affects the
complexion and makes wrinkles. IL worrying
women could be thoroughly convinced of all this
they would worry less. A worrying woman Is a
burden to herself, and an infection to all those
with whom she comes In contact. IL may not be
an easy thing to cultivate calm and cheerful way
OF looking at things, but 1t can be DONE A habit
once formed 10 one of the most difficult things to
get rid of. A pernicious habit 10 O tyrant, but
habit that benefits ones self and helps ones neigh
Dor IL q delightful commander to serve. The pro-
baton is sometimes long and tedious and the
discipline severe but when lie fairly enlisted in
the noble army of the knights of the cheerful habit
the hardest part Is over and henceforth the line OF
march Ia comparatively easy. Ii Is always the frst
steps that are difficult to take in virtue as we'll as
in vice.
writer attributes the angularity of American
women to worry, and says that 1t increases with
indulgence, like anger or appetite or love- or any
other human impulse. 1t upsets the mind and
units 1t for any kind Of work, and surely the
woman who worries, who frets continually about
trifies, Is to be avoided. The woman who jumps
up In the midst of conversation to remove speck
of dust from the piano who relates the worries Of
her servants to her guests; the woman who frets
because her child has q rumpled dress, or because
some one brings q little mud in on the carpet, and
about many other things that of the least pos
sibe consequence, wearisome to the last degree.
Life is too short to be spent in this way, and gen.
orally speaking, we have serious troubles enough.
To fly into q passion at some trifiiDg occurrence
that Is not altogether pleasant Is senseless. Look
at the other side of 1t, and perhaps it may be
ludicrous side.
Most things have a funny side if one will only
take the trouble to look for it and If looks
will be sure to find. Cultivate q habit Of looking
at thing every side until you come to the funny
side, and then enjoy good laugh. 1t is 30 much
better to laugh than to cry one feels far happier
afterward, and the laugh has cheering effect on
those who hear it. 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 cause them to
disappear; time will only deepen them. They can
be avoided, but they will not be driven away. And
who enjoys looking at fretful, worried, wrinkled
face? What charm has q Partisan toilet, be 1t ever
30 exquisite, Ii the face above IL Is covered with
network of fretful wrinkles2 Since human beings
look more at faces than at anything else in the
whole of their lives, they should do all they
can to make their own faces cheerful and as the
reflection of cheerful face-the "ight of the coun-
tenance; what more expressive way than that can
be devised for speaking of cheerful face?-will
shine upon all who see it.
OF course, life Is full of cares; everyone knows
that and every one has cause to worry about some
thing. II the children i'll, or the husband has
failed in business, these things that natur
ally 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 peo
pie worry most, and which are not worth worry
log about. A careful housekeeper will fret about
the way her servant enters the room before COM
pany, or passes dish ut table, and frowns win
settle down upon her face that are seen by the