Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-19

right path for my feet, I shall NJ
guided and directed
Repeat these expressions with nuia,
assertiveness and immediate strength
will give you heart. NJ. r
II you awake after night az rest.
lessness and bad dreams. feeline
nervous and unstrung, say to vo,,rself'
II have serenity and patience. and /
shall be calm, no matter what occurs.
Peace walks with me. and everything
is all right" Repeat these words over
and over until serenity and peace come
to you.
No matter If you feel that the dav is
too short to allow you to do what Won
know awaits your doing, yet take time
to make these assertions to yourself
and you will be the gamer thereby and
never the loser.
Every such utterance is building a
brain cell which shall help you to ac-
complish the tasks which lie before
you.
Never permit your mind to dwell on
the thought that you are weak, sick.
sinful or incapable of meeting the ex-
igencies of the day. Build your mind
up. do not pull it down. And of all
times in the "a hours there is no other
which compares with the first half
hour after awakening for this mind
building. Be careful how you employ
it. Thrust away the gloom and dark
ness of night and let in the light and
hope of the day.
Given the same talents and opportu-
mites in life, the optimlst succeeds with
half the effort which the pessimist is
The Creator. we are told. is an opti-
mist. for he looked upon his work and
called it good.
The man who keeps his faith in eternal
justice, and the ultimate triumph of good
over evil, puts himself in key with divine
harmonies.
''Whatever is, is wrong strikes a dis
cord at every turn
He antagonizes gods and men, The
pessimist swims against the tide of ex-
istence, the optimist swims with it, One
is obliged to battle against fierce pillows
the other is half carried to shore by these
same pillows.
To be an optimist is not to sit down
with folded arms and eyes shut to all the
wrongs in the world which need right
ing. The man who does that is rather a
blind fool or selfish egotist than true
optimist. Optimism sees the evil in the
world and works necessarily to better the
condition Of humanity-but he never for
a moment loses his faith in the power or
good over evil light over darkness.
If l were asked for the very first prin-
ciple on which TO have successful ca
reer for man or woman | should say
Belief in the supremacy of the good.
1t makes 80 difference how many in
d1vidual cases one may discover where
goodness and worth have been dominated
by cruelty and wrong. these situations
are only temporary. and for every one.
one can find 10 cases where evil has been
overcome by good If we look about us.
One reason the world seems all wrong
is because the pessimistss talk so much
louder and longer than the optimists.
Welcomes is far more noisy than
worth. The right hand of the good man
knows not what his left hand is doing,
But the two hands of the bad man ex-
change these condolences and keep the
woriu informed of their doings beside.
1t would be an excellent thing for hui
manity if every town employed a detec-
tive force 10 spy out the noble deeds and
kind acts done each day within it's pre-
cincts.
A bulletin of the unsefish and heroic
actions of people and of the triumph of
worth would do much to increase opti-
mism in the world.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
in New York Evening World.