The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
GOOD HUMOR.
bad Effects of InduIging In Ill
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| The best gift which can Zoe given to
| girl in her cradle by her fairy god
mothers is that of good humor. So
far as her own happiness and that of
| those connected with her are concerned,
it is better than wealth. She who can
| keep her temper under all circun-
stances, who can laugh over misadyen-
| lures and persistently make the best
| of everything, however bad it may be,
| has conquered fate, and has an UNI
brella more or less proof against all the
| storms of life.
1t must be admitted that cheerfulness
is in great part matter of tempera-
ment, and that there are people who can
no more help worrying than a hen can
| help getting wet when it rains. But
the hen can, and generally does, seek
| the best shelter she can. A talent for
cheerfulness, like every other talent,
can be cultivated and grows with using.
"Arrah, Biddy," said the Irishman, IF
ye can't be aisy, be as aisy as We can bel"
In any event, if you must worry, try to
keep it to yourself, and don't pour your
| basin of cold water over the sitting-roOm
fire to the discomfort of your whole fam
| lily. And let me tell you a secret-there
| is no cosmetic in the whole beauty shop
half so effective as good humor.
Fretfulness and i'll temper leave their
indelible finger marks on the fairest
face, while smiling good temper, IL
Eliminates the plaincst one. That child
isn't the least bit pretty" said a lady
the other day of one of her pupils in
large school land yet to me she is the
most attractive of all Miss Els girls,
her face is always so bright, and her
eyes fairly sparkle with fun and good
humor; l smile in spite of myself when
ever l see her"
For years one of the reigning bellies
in an inland town was girl of no pre-
tentions to beauty, and of moderate
means. She was clever and well edu-
Gated, but her chief charms lay in the
faculty which she possessed of max
ing everyone at ease, and, as one of
her admirers said: Taking the sun
shine about with her"
Nothing wears one out like fretting
just as the friction on a machine which
is unoiled grinds away the surfaces
more in an hour than in week of
proper use, day of fretful worrying
will dig more and deeper wrinkles on
your face than months of hard work
faithfully done.
Any person will tell you that fits Of
crying will iniure both your eyes and
your complexion. y bad attack Of the
sulks will yellow your skin as surely
as one of Indigestion.
Make the experiment of practicing
smiles and scowls before your mirror
for few minutes, and see which you
think most becoming. If a thing can
be helped, 90 to work and help it with
a will, and do your very best; if it can
not, all the tears and worry in the
world will not make it any easier to
bear. You only cover your cross with
prickles, and chafe your flesh against
the barriers you cannot break. And,
after all, few things are so bad that pa
thence cannot better them.
There is an old story of two penitents
who i'll the middle ages were ordered
home, many miles, with peas IN their
shoes. The one put the specliled num-
Der Of hard, dried peas in either shoe
and reached Rome, after days OF sui
terlng, lame and footsore; the other
quietly boiled his peas and journeyed
as comfortably as though they had not
been.
There is a great deal of philosophy
in boiling your peas, and there are
few so hard that boiling will not soften
them. 1t may almost be said that the
true secret of happiness in life is to
make the iOest of everything, and in so
far as lieth in us to help Others do the
same.
! Perhaps you think you have a hard
time, there are SO many things to veX
and cross you in your lot. Suppose
YOU sit down and make a list in writing
| all have been set down, make another