Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
LET IT GO.

| ' If you have had an unfortunate ex- perience this last year, forget it. If you have made 3 failure in your speech. your song, your book or your article; if you have been placed in an
 enbarra ssing position, if you have fallen and hurt yourself by a false step, or if you have been slandered and' abused, do not dwell upon if, for get it. There is not single redeem ing feature in these memories, and the presence Of their ghosts will rob you of many a happy hour. There is nothing valuable in them. Wipe them out of your mind forever. Drop them. Forget them
 If you have been indiscreet or inn prudent, if you have been talked about, or if your reputation has been injured so that you fear you can never outgrow it or redeem 1t, do not drag the hideous shadows or the rattling skeletons about with you. Rub them from the slate of memory. Wipe them out. Forget them. Start with clean slate and spend your energies in keep ing it clean for the future.
 Resolve that, whatever you do or. do not do, you will not be, haunted by skeletons nor cherish shadows. They must get out and give place to the sunshine. Determine that you will have nothing to do with discords, but that. every one of them must get out of your mind. No matter how forrnid- able or persistent, wipe them out. Forget them. Have nothing to do with them Do not let the little enc. mies--worrying and foreboding, anx iety and regrets--sap your energy, for this is your success and happiness capital
 A gloomy face or a sour expression, worrying mind. or a fretting dispo sition, is proof Of your failure to control yourself It is sn earniark of your weakness, a confession of your inability to cope with your environ ment. Drive it away Dominate yourself. Do not let your enemies sit on the throne Do your own gov erning,
 Dismiss from your mind every sug- gestfon that has to do with illness. If you have had an operation---it is over; let it glide into the shadows--the background of memory Do not dwell upon it. Do not talk about it. l|
 Whatever is disa gfeeable, or what, ever irritates, nass or destroys your balance of nind-forget it Thrust it out. It has nothing to do with you, now. You have better use for your time than to waste it in regrets, in worry, or ill useless trifes. Let the rubbish go. Make war upon despona- ency, if you are subject to it. Drive the blues out Of your mind as you would a thief out of the house. Shut the door in the face. of all your enc mics, and keep it shut. Do not wait for cheerfulness to come to you. 60 after it; entertain it; never let it go.
 \ desponde1lt young writer says that while he was in the west he used to watch the cows on the prairies, and could not help envying them. .T used often to heave 3 sigh and wish were a cow" What keeps them so con tented?'' he asked the farmer. ssOh, 1 they are enjoying themselves chewing their cuds, was the reply.
 The trouble with many of us is that we do not enjoy chewing our cuds-letting go of our aches, pains and anxieties, and just enjoying our selves. We cannot bear to let go. 1 We cling to them like q thrifty house wife, who cannot bear to throw away a rag or q scrap of anything. but piles useless rubbish in the attic. We cannot bear to let our enemies go. We can not seem to kick out of doors the 1 things that worry and fret and chafe and yet never do us any good. 10. $! l Marden i'll January Success.