The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-10

E w Howe's Atchison Globe has is
sued the Don't Worry Book" printed
for the Globes Don't Worry Club"
Accompanying it is a button badge
inscribed The Atchison Globes Don't
Worry Club" in the center the words
Don't Get" over a spot of blue.
The book is a booklet,vest pocket size.
AS the work is not copyrighted. not
even the Globes announcement at the
end, the State Journal reprints it here
with In full, because of the good phil
osophy it contains.
DON'T WORRY CLUB.
Did you ever think seriously Of the
folly Of worry? Will you give ten
minutes to the subject now? Sleep
Iessness, nervousness, insanity, and a
long list of bodily diseases are the re-
suit of Worry.
You are here, and you cannot honest
~ get away for a time. therefore why
not be as comfortable as possible?
The good prisoner finds life more toll
cradle than his unruly mate who is
often in the dark cell.
We do not pretend to say you have
no cause for Worry. What we contend
IS that Worry makes every discomfort
worse, and that you can overcome the
habit to some extent
Join the Don't Worry Club. You will
not make much progress in a week, but
IN month you will have a better tenn
per: in three months you will decide
that joining the Don't Worry Club was
the wisest step you ever took.
There is no initiation fee in the Don't
worry Club NO foolish initiation cere-
monies; no Riding the Goat No one
to laugh at you. No expense of any
kind. No uniform to wear. No signs,
grips or passwords. No meetings Moth
ing that IS not sensible: nothing that
your own common sense cannot approve.
When you join the Don't Worry Club.
you simply resolve to make the best of
life You need not wear button or
badge: you need not tell anyone you
belong. No state or national meetings:
no delegates running around the streets
wearing badges.
A member of the Don't Worry Club
who does the best he can will enjoy
better health than the men and women
who run into every stone wall to dem
onstrate how much suffering they can
endure; he will be more agreeable to
his associates; he will live longer and
more comfortably; he will die an easier
death.
Christian Science has done good in
the world The Don't Worry Club has
every sensible feature of Christian
Science, and none of its contrOverted
doctrines. A great many laugh at the
Christian Scientists. No one will laugh
at member of the Don't W orry Club,
for there is nothing in its principles
that can be scoffed at, or ridiculed.
There Is not a man living who, being
told of the principles Of the Don't
" OAAy OA4Ds WIN l4Ol approve VI lAGA4A-
Catholics, Protestants. Jews, Chinese.
Beers. Turks and infdels, and the
learned as well as the ignorant, will
accept the principles of the Don't Wor-
has been the subject Of a quarrel.
Here are the principles:
1. Worry is injurious.
2. Worry can usually be avoided. In
training yourself to avoid worry. you
get a mental training that will aid
you in other ways
8. Worry can be most easily avoided
by those who are most fair and honora-
Bile. No one guilty of bad or foolish
conduct of any kind, can avoid worry.
Guilt is a poor bed fellow.
(These three rules are the essential
principles of the Don't Worry Club:
few others are given, which you may
remember If you choose.)
4. Whoever talks too much, has
cause to worry that cannot be over
come Talk less, and better. If you
have secrets that do not concern the
public, keep them to yourself: the ex-
change of condolences encourages
gossip and worry.
5. Avoid excess of every kind Good
habits are as powerful as bad habits.
A good habit is the source of constant
pleasure, as bad habits are the source
of constant worry.
s. Don't boast your membership in
the Don't Worry Club. and of your su-
periority over others. There is seldom
anything substantial back of q, boast.
Z. No good member Of the Don't
Worry Club will have too much conf
deRce in lawyers or doctors: to call
lawyer or doctor is often an indication
that you are worrying about something
that might have been avoided
s. Success has its worries but they
are not so great as the worries that at
tend failure Lazarus must have had
some other virtue than failure in life:
than poverty. Failure in this fat old
world often suggests laziness
9. We sometimes doubt (when we
fail to live up to the principles of the
Don't Worry Club that any one ever
had an unselflsh friend, but refusal to
worry is a good friend A good charac-
ter is a friend you can depend upon, and
good work for your employer is an
other.
10. Some men impose on others, but
their success in this direction must
cause them worry. You should help
your friends. rather than impose on
them. Be as kind and helpful as you
can to your neighbors, and you via
not worry a great deal because of
neglect of duty in Hindoostan.
II. There are SO many weak men in
the world that it must be source of
satisfaction to be a strong one. Try it:
refusal to worry will help you.
Il. A little common sense is worth
more than genius. Patience is COM
mon sense; fairness is common sense;
honesty is common sense; refusal to
worry Is common serse.
Is. Some very eminent men say there
is no such disease as hydrophobia: that
what passes for hydrophobia is the re-
suit Of Worry over a harmless dog bite.
Don't argue about this question, or any
other but it is evidence that some of
the wisest men regard Worry as very
harmful.
IA. The barbarians were dishonest:
a successful raid was considered as suf-
ficient excuse for bad conduct. But civ
ilization has discovered that hc%esty
is the best policy; that success is not
possible without it. If you hope to
avoid worry, ySu must therefore avoid
bad conduct
Is. Every man thinks with horror of
being a burden in his old age. Every
member Of this club. therefore, will en-
deayor by means of frugality indus