The age-herald., 1898-10-12
The Iron Market.
C.>ScEKNING THE MORAY CURE

Two of the metaphysical magazines have lately contained articles on what may be called the Worry Cure" one being writ ten or prescribed by MT. A. L. Wilson, and the contribution to the Temple being by MT. Paul Tyner, who boldly heads his ef- fusion, "A Cure for Worry
 It is not worth while to speculate as to what these experts set down as either pre- ventives of or cures for worry, since there is no instance showing that the authors themselves, or any other human being or beings have ever been cured of this com- plaint or condition. It is certain that MT. Wilson, who wrote "How Not to Worry" and MT. Tyner, who wrote "A Cure for Worry both worried themselves at every stage of the preparation and publication of their valuable contributions to the sum of human knowledge. They worried over the plan of their articles, worried over the mean steel pens with winch they wrote them, worried as to whether the articles would be accepted by the respective maga- zines, worried over the proofs if they were allowed to see them, and since their pubi- cation have been worrying over their re- ception by critics and the reading public.
 Worry is natural and inevitable condi- tion of human existence and prescriptions for preventing or curing it have the same value that would attach to Series of di- rections how to live without breathing or how to exist week with suspended action of the heart. St
 Worry, anxiety foreboding, result from mans inability to foresee the future even for any hour He cannot know what is to happen to him, and so he worries about it. That in 999 cases out of 1000 what he fears or anticipates does not happen, is no con solation It is like the information freely .t,r 4N1 kkA 1F 4t.ru that only one musket ball in 400, or one cannon ball In 1000 or one bayonet thrust in 10000 ever reaches a soldier. The fiat' tering data did no good. because the sol dier could not be sure that 1t was not the four hundredth ball, or the one-thousandth round shot, that was just then coming. While any of the villainous saltpeter which many a good tall fellow hath destroyed was being burned there were no effectual re- ceipts for worry.
 Next to refraining from reading naga- zine articles on the subject of worry and it's cure, the best course that can be taken is for persons to expect worry. Until there can be such thing as an absolutely sound body the habitation of a perfect mind, there must-be worry. The mind, as every body knows, is affected by the construction or state of repair of the tenement house which 1t occupies. and so a man may wor- ry not because hs circumstances are ex- cept1onally d1fncult, or because God has hidden His face from view, but because his liver is out of order or his digestion impaired.
 It IS quite useless to tell men not to worry and it is an impertinence unless the adviser is competent to remove the cause of their worriment. And then it is not certain that worry is an unmixed evil. The perpetual worry in which mothers indulge concerning their little children, while ha- rassing to themselves, undoubtedly tends to the care and safety of the>children, and many a man has gone home sober because troubled by vision of his wife worrying lest he come home drunk.
 The burden of worry and anxiety, like the total and aggregate load of grief and trouble borne by mankind, may have its purpose and somewhere it's compensation