The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-29
Giving Good Advice.

| Giving Good Advice.
However frugal we may be in other
respects, none OF us are niggardly when
it comes to bestowing good advice upon
our fellow creatures. 1t is the one time
when we are all agreed in the grand
altruistic belief that it is more blessed
| to give than to receive, and so we go
| cheerfully along, Offering gratuitous
| counsel to everyone we meet, no matter
how. ignorant we may De OF all the es-
Sential conditions surrounding them, or
how untitled VIC are to pass upon them.
y recent and very amusing illustration
of this universal foible was given in the
message sent by the Don't Worry club"
| of Cleveland to President Kruger, and to
which he has sent a polite reply express
ing his appreciation Of their delicate at
tcntion. 1t is imaginable that in the
IranSvaal. where we are told that they
don't worry about education, or cleanli-
ness, or fashion, or progress, or many of
the other things that veX our souls, that
the ethics of the Don't Worry club may
not be fully understood, but surely for
| once the good advice and the hour met.
victorious enemy, with hopes overthrow,
and country laid waste, Il message not
to worry was nothing short of an in
SplratlOn. and everyone will sincerely
hope that Mr.. Kruger will be able to
ia he the good advice thus offered.
In smaller, and less picturesque way,
most of us have experienced somt thing
Of the same kind and realized how easy
it was for the person sitting safe and
comfortable ut home. to advise the one in
the thick of the fight not to mind the
wounds he was getting. The old bache-
Tor. who regards all children as more or
less Of troublesome little beasts, of whom
I'll CT hr> lad -.
why the anxious mother. with all her
wealth III one coin, as Mrs. Browning
says, should worry about her child every
minute it is out of her sight The rich
and prosperous. with an assured income,
grow eloquent over the poor clerk worry
ing for fear he may get sick and lose his
place. The woman with old. trained fam
lily servants thinks it positively weak
minded for the woman with one green
girl to worry so over her housekeeping
Those with the digestion Of an ostrich
jcer at the fads of the dyspeptic who arc
always worrying about what they can
cat and what they can't.
1t is always safe advice to tell people
not to worry. but. fter all, we owe more
to those who worry than to those who
don't. Contentment is comfortable, but
it isn't progress. The men and women
who move the world are the discontinued.
The woman who is satisfied to wear a
calico frock will never wear a silk one
She who is contented to sit on the lowest
rung Of the ladder will never perch on
the top one. The mothers of great men
have never been the placid women who
sat with folded hands and let events take
their course. They have been the women
who wanted an opportunity for their
children and worried until they got it,
AS a dispenser of good advice the
don't worry clubs are beyond price.
There is no doubt that health and peace
and happiness await the man and woman
who can make up their minds to quit
worrying and take life as it comes, but
they will get precious little else. The
worriers will have all the plums. Wor-
rying is agsravaton. but paci,lity is al
ways stagnaton.-Ne Orleans Plea
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