The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-28
CURE FOR GRUMBLTNG.
Minister Prescribes More Sleep and
 More Philanthropy.

Minister Prescribes More Sleep and
 More Philanthropy.
 pr. P. S. Henson of Chicago lectured before the Chautauqua assembly few days ago on grumblers. The lecture
 was full of humor and anecdote
 Among other things, Dr. Henson said:
 Tn heaven there are no grumblers,
 and that makes heaven. In hell there
 is nothing else, and that makes hell.
 In this world things are greatly mixed,
 thorns and flowers, thanksgivings and
 complainings, with a large proportion
 of the latter. The Englishman is said
 to be the champion grumbler of the
 world, especially when he comes to | America; then he writes his grumbl- | ings out and prints them in book and sends them over to us and we grumble back to him. I remember some time ago to have heard of an Englishman | travelling in this country in company with an American friend. He could not find anything to his liking. The water
 was beastly, don't you know, the roads untravelable, the food indigestible, the walters uncivil, the landlords exorbi- tant, the manners of the people were crude and rude.
 Tt was just at the time when we were having those extraordinary sun sets, when long after the sun went down there fingered in the western sky glow of almost preternatural beauty, so that some people feared it was the fol etokening of the end of the world. The American pointed his English friend one morning to that sky. Now,
 look at that old boy. You talk of the Orient, of sunset skies in classic lands, but where in the world did you ever see so fine as that?" The Englishman looked al it moment and said: Well, don't you think 1t is just little over- done? The Lord himself could not please him when he came to paint sunset.
 But this is not peculiar to an Eng lishman It is characteristic of univer- sal humanity. The first man that ever appeared on earth began to grumble because there was just one tree in all the world that he could not eat of, and that grumbling cost him paradise, and every child of Adam is just like his father. The first thing baby does when he opens his eyes on this new world is to strike out with both hands and feet and howl in protest against his environment.
 Nobody likes his business, care not what 1t is. It may be he is a dry goods merchant. He tells you there was a time when man could make fortune selling dry goods, but now the is so close that nobody can make money out of it But he keeps to Chautauqua every summer Yet he is losing money all the time What a lot he must have had to start with
 If there is any place on earth where the voice of the grumbler ought not to | be heard it is in the sanctuary of the home, but that Is where it is heard most loudly When man is at his place of business he has to be a gentle l man, but when he goes to his own home | he has not got to be anything In | particular and so he lets out the pent- | ID fury of the day. He comes like a | bowling cyclone. Whats the reason | 1inner isn't ready Whats the matter with that beefsteak? It isn't fit for a, | log. I'll go to hashhouse' Poor lit- !. .le woman. She has been waiting all lay for him to come home. She has lad her troubles, and has been wishing or sympathy. That is the kind she | gets. The tears are swelling her eyes. he has a lump in her throat that she 1 ant swallow, and she wishes she were lead and you, too-especially you.