The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-31
LEE IS WHAT ne MAKE M.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes in the New
York Journal:
Do not 90 through the world talking
poverty and asking every one yoa deal
with TO show you special consideration
because you are poor and ''unfortu-
nate"
II you do this with an idea OF saving
a few dollars here and there. You win al
ways have 10 do X. because you are Gre
ating poverty conditions by your con-
slant assertions.
II is a curious fact that the people who
are always demanding consideration IN
money matters demand the best that is
going on at the same time.
/ have known a woman 70 make q plea
for cut prices in boarding house be
cause she was so poor. yet she wanted
the sunniest room and the best location
the house afforded.
II is the charity patients who make the
most complaint OF a physicians skin or a
nurses attention
II you cannot afford TO do certain
things. or buy certain objects. don't But
when you decide you must, decide. too.
that you will pay the price, and make no
whining plea of poverty.
There are two extremes Of people in
the world. one as disIasteful as the other.
One is represented by the man who boasts
or the costliness of every provision. and
invites the whole world to behold his
opulence and expenditure.
His clothes, his house. his servants. his
habits seem no different from his neigh
from his neighbor's. yet. according TO
his story. they cost ten times the
amount.
The other extreme is the man who
dresses well. lives well. enjoys all the
comforts and pleasures of his associates.
yet talks poverty continually. and ex-
poets the entire community &c show him
consideration in consequence
Another thing TO avoid is the role OF the
chemically injured person.
We all know him.
He has a continual grievance. He has
been cheated. abused. wronged. inSulted.
disappointed and deceived We wonder
how or why he has managed 10 exist.
az We listen 10 the story Of his trou-
bles.
No one ever treats him fairly. either in
business or social life. Everybody is Un-
grateful. unkind. selfish. and he could not
be made 10 believe that these expert
eRces were of his own making.
All of us meet with occasional blows
from fate. in the form of insults. or in
gratitude. or trickery. from an unexpected
source.
But II we get nothing else but those
disappointing experiences from life. We
may rest assured the fault lies somewhere
in ourselves.
We are not sending out the right kind
of mental stuff. or we would get better
returns.
You never can tell what your thoughts
Will do
In bringing you hate or love.
For thoughts are things, and their airy
wings
Are swift as carrier dove.
They follow the law OF the universe
Each thing must create it's kind
And they speed Ger the track 10 bring
you back
Whatever went out from YOU mind.
In the main. we must of necessity get
from humanity what we give 10 it. II
we question our ability 10 win friends or
love. people viii also question.
If we doubt our own Judgment and dis
erection in business. others will doubt It.
and the shrewd and unprincipled viii take
the opportunity given by our doubts OF
ourselves TO spring upon US.
If in consequence we distrust every per-
son we meet, we create an unwholesome
and unfortunate atmosphere about our
selves, which will bring us the unworthy
and deceitful. Stand firm in the uni
verse. Believe in yourself. Believe in
others.
II you make mistake. consider it only
an incident.
If some one wrongs you. cheats, misuses
or insults you, let It pass as one OF the
lessons you had to learn, but do not i'm
agiue that you are selected by fate for
onIy such lessons. Keep wholesome, hope
full and sympathetic with the world at
large. whatever individuals may do EX-
pect life 10 use you better every year, and
il will not disappoint you in the long run
For life is what we make il.