Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-20
Dent Brood.

Al English writer tells of "a famous
London doctor whose consulting rooms
were always througed with patients, who
owed NEST Of his success to the impress
siyc manner in which lee clasped his pa
tient> hands ~ the door rs they left
him and exclaimed, Don't brood" Most
Of lhcm had been broOdiug before they
came to him over financial loss or sor-
row, or domestic unhappiness, or i'll
health. and they fully intended brooding
again when they left him, but somehow
the dramatic and almost tragic tones in
winch the doctor uttered tbe injunction
made them pause.
Don't brood" echoed in their ears as
they departed. To fly in the face Of such
solemn injunction seemed almost like
tempting providence. and when it comes
10 the pinch none of us are quite pre-
pared for the worst They dared not
brood. They longed to. for nothing is a
%aie subtitle temptation than to indulge
one self in the luxury of glOating over
ones misfortunes and pitying ones self
rs me most unhappy and gnucky Of
mortals. but out of the silence and the
gloom came the doctors warning, Don't
brood, and they felt forced to brace up
aid assume cheerful attitude towards
life. lnsensibly their health improved
ana the PHYSICIANS fame rs healer
spread throughout all the length and
breadth Of the kingdom.
W @ all know that worry drains the sys-
TEN OF vitality. and that it is the things
that annoy us, instead of the work we
DO. that leave us exhausted when the
day IS done. Work aonc with ligh,
heart never tires us. and the trouble
mat we meet with q brave and steadfaSt
courage is already half conquered. II is
the gFlet and misf0rtuneS that We allow
ourselves TO brood over that destroy US.
body and soul.
II is strange too, how things grow
when we brood over them. The magic
beaii that shot up to the clouds in a
single night Is nothing TO the phenomenal
growth that trouble or wrong can take
On If we plant the seed in some silent
hour aud water it with few tears. We
have q little cough, for instance. In
stead of taking our ailments out into the
sunlight, we begin to brood over them.
" e recall pathetic cases Of young lives
blghted by consumption. We dig back
INTO our family history and rake up an
cestors who had coughs, and before we
know 1t WE are trembling on the brink
of the grave. in imagination at least, and
really nave broodcd ourselves into semi
inynlidiSn, or a misunderstanding with
Il friend. Perhaps one word of eXplana.
ton might have set it right at first, but
the minute we begin to brood over it we
see deadly insult, and malice and all
meharitablcness in it, and not all the
kings horses and all the kings men can
ever cement the broken bonds Of affee-
ton between us again.
Don't broodw Those two words are n
fine motto for women. Women worry
and vivisect themselves and their affairs
too much. They not only cross bridges
before they come to them. hut they 20 out
of their way to build them. There is no
reason for takink life too seriously. We
can labor better and accomplish more to
the accompaniment of laughter than
tears. and the best medicine for an ach-
lug heart or a sick body is good,
hearty, blood-stirrine laugh New
Orleans Picayunc