The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-01-14

most valuable possession, friendship,
which is entirely Independent of
financial success. To have and to
hold place in the social life of the
world is not only the right, but the
duty of the young wife who desires
to have home in its truest and best
sense.-Helen Jay in January La
dies Home Journal.
80
ga little bit of Patience,
Often makes the sunshine come,
And little bit of Love
Makes a very happy home.
A little bit of Hope
Makes rainy day look gay,
And little bit of charity
Makes glad weary way"
*%*
Mistaken.
Look here, Bridget" said an in
dignant lady, ~ have missed things
ever since you came to live with me,
and to-day 1 took the liberty of
searching your room, and 1 found
my lace handkerchief in your bureau
drawer"
LUX at thot, nowl"
Eyes, and found my lace jabot
and one of my wells in your trunk"
Ibid amy one iver!"
"And you had pair of my gloves
in your room"
LUX at thot agin, now!n
II have taken all my things to my
own room, and want you to leave
the house to-day"
"Oh, but Oi'll lave fasht enough,
for it's not OF thot wants to wurrnk
for amy Teddy thot so far forgits
hersilf as to go pryin' round in a
girrul's rooml Oh tot Oh was wurkin'
for Teddy, but Olive found out me
mistake an Oi'll lave this minute ~
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How Worry Affects the Brain.
Modern science has brought to
light nothing more curiously inter-
esting than the fact that worry will
kill. More remarkable still, it has
been able to determine, from recent
discovers, just how worry does kill.
1t is believed by many scientists
who have followed most carefully
the growth of the science of brain
disease that scores of the deaths set
down to other causes are due to
worry, and that alone. The theory
is simple one-so simple that any
one can readily understand it.
Briefly put, it amounts to this:
Worry injuries beyond repair GER
tain cells of the brain; and the brain
being the nutritive center Of the
body, the other organs become
gradually injured, and when some
disease of these organs, or COM
bination of them, arises, death finally
ensues. Thus does worry kill. In
sidiously, like many other diseases,
it creeps upon the brain in the form
of a single, constant, never-lost idea;
and, as the dropping of water over
period of years will wear groove in
a stone, so does worry gradually, i'm
perceptibly, but no less surely, de-
stroy the brain cells that lead all the
rest-that are, so to speak, the COM
handing officers of mental power,
health, and motion. Worry, to make
the theory still stronger, is an
irritant at certain points, which pro-
duces little harm if it comes at
intervals of irregularity. Occasional
worrying of the system the brain
can cope with, but the iteration and
reiteration of one idea of disquiet-
ing sort the ce lis of the brain are not
proof against. 1t is as if the skull
were laid bare and the surface of the
brain struck lightly with hammer
every few seconds, with mechanical
precision, with never sign OF a let
up or the failure Of stroke. Just
in this way does the annoying idea,
the maddening thought that will not
be done away with, strike or fall
upon certain nerve cells, never ceas-
ing, and week by week diminishing
the vitality of these delicate organ
isms, SO minute that they can only
be seen under the microscope
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