The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-07
QUEER NOTIONS ABOUT LUCK.
Good or Ill Fortune Depends Entirely
on the Point Of View.

Good or Ill Fortune Depends Entirely
on the Point Of View.
From the Netp York Herald
What is good and what is bad luck is often
very confusing. I met man recently
whom had missed from the STRAND" for
month or two. He was hobbling painfully
along with the aid OF a cane. He told me
he bad fallen into a stone pile in the
| Bowery and sprained his ankle; had been
| laid up month.
That is certainly bad luck" said 1,
alphabetically.
Pm In luck that didn't break my neck"
he replied.
But it must have come hard for you to
be laid up during the exciting end Of q
political campaign remarked. Ny friend
| is something Of political sport.
1T was. But Pm lucky there, too, for
I'd have bet on Harrison
Which reminds me of the following news
paper paragraph following the cable intel
ligeuce of q street accident to Gladstone:
The Grand Old Man seems possessed Of q
charmed life. Within a twelvemonth he
has twice been knocked down by a cab in
London. and then tossed by a heifer while in
his park at Hawarden, in Flintshire."
Very charming life, indeed Is il good
luck to be run over Dy cabs and be tossed
by heifers, or is it merely good luck be wasn't
MANNED for life or killed.
FINDING CONSOLATION.
A Chicago friend once met me on State
street and introduced me to a couple Of
gentleman as the ''luckiest man alive:
why, this man, said be, surveying me at
arms leagth, Twas shot three times In the
army-shot in every battle he was ever in
shot since through the lungs-in fact gets
ahot wherever there is any shooting going
on-and Just look at him now Well, |
never saw a luckier man in my lifem
Il have,n said 1.-The man who never
gets shot at all"
"But isn't it great luck you wasn't killed.
You might have been killed.
l was thinking of this the other day when
| lodged across Park row between the cars
where poor Rsdpath met his ignominious
end by being run over by q horse car after
having survived the million dangers of war,
Of the ocean, of travel Of pestilence and
other things. when / suddenly confronted a
gentlemen coming up from Hitchcock's cell
lar. He mad plainly been dining on "pork
and" among the buns and boys Seeing
that he was noticed be made a bold front
Of it,
Pm right down 70 hard pan," said he
Had TO do it. Election just cleaned me
out. Worse-Pm a cool thousand in q hole.
l put up every cent l had and all ] could
borrow. Lucky for me my credit wasn't
very good, don't you know, or I'd be In 10
deeper"
There was such an air of oheerfulness
about this man, whom / had known as q
pretty high roller about the uptown cafes,
that | couldn't condols with him. laughed.
He laughed.
MAKING THE BEST OF IT.
eyes. got stuck pretty badly, but I'll be
able TO be around uptown again In about
three months. Meantime. it's lucky for me,
probably, that l didn't win. I'd been
warned by a medical friend that was liv-
ing too high-you know like good living
and I'd lived higher il I'd have scooped In
that 81, 500 stood TO win. Doctor prescribed
simple diet. I'm taking doctors prescription
now. Only doctors prescription l ever took
I'm living down about as low as they get"
He looked down into the famous celler
whence he had just emerged, and where
scores Of men and boys sat with their hats
on at the bare tables and laughed again.
Ibid yol ever dine on centsa MOI or
course not; but it isn't half bad. For 10
cents you can get enough to eat. tell you
mos0 of us don't know how simple a thing
living is. The more crowded parts of town
afford the best examples. l don't eat hers
all the time--sometimes 60 up TO the Bowery.
The thing smuses me. / have a room with
friend-nice fellow-no charge. He is
under the impression that still take dol
lar table d'hote at Muschenheim's and would
60 broke for me if he knew this"
l said the change seemed to agree with
him. And he did look better than had
ever seen him before.
'Yes"-he has curious, musing way of
pulling on that ''yes"-"it's the diet, you
know. It's great luck to have circumstances
glide into each other, as 1t we're. II Harrl-
son had been elected I'd have been drinking
champagne and eating Welsh rarebits after
IL o'clock, and the doctor said mustn't.
Now I'm not drinking anything and eating
little. So everything comes in Just right. 1"
And went on my way up the crowded
walk believing a man of such phllosophio
temperament certainly a very lucky man.
MEJlIGAI