The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-30
HOW TO BRING BAD =
 LUCK ON YOURSELF.

You have no doubt often seen post | ed conspicuously in an office the nos tice: Don't tell me of your troubles
 I have plenty of my own."
 You never thought of it, perhaps,
 but making the most of all your trou- | bles, dwelling on them In your mind, talking about them to others, going | to bed with them at night and get ting up with in the morning is a sure way to breed ills far more serious than any that have come to you yet. Believe me, 1t never fails.
 There is Mrs. Killjoy. When she
 was a child she used to run to her
 mother with every little disappoint- ment and finger ache and make 1t twice as great as 1t was for the sake
 of getting sympathy and betting. The foolish mother encouraged the child in the habit until 1t grew so that the woman Is a horror to sensi- tive acquaintances. If she sees you in the evening she will recount every infinitesimal unpleasant incident of
 the day. exaggerating 1t. intensifying 1t, stretching 1t to the utmost verge of truth, in order to have you pity and help her. If that Killjoy woman breaks her finger nail she makes as much fuss over 1t as she had broken her leg. If she gets a grease spot on her gown 1t Is a blot on the sun: if anybody speaks unpleasantly to her
 1t Is a grievance to her for the next six months. -
 Mrs. KilIjoy moves from one board ing house to another. All the land- ladies abuse her apparently. This one starves her. that one freezes her, the other does not take proper care of her rooms or her property. Somehow fate has got 1t in for her, Mrs. Killjoy. She wonders why she never can find pleasant lodging houses, such as other lone women secure, where the mis-
 tress will show her a little human kindness. The fact Is, Mrs. Killjoy Is so fussy. peevish and complaining that the landladies como to dread the sight of her. If she goes away for a time their rooms are always en- gagged when she returns. She won- ders why her evil Tuck" works against her even in the. matter of lodging houses.
 At length. carrying with her the thought of i'll luck and habitually making something evil out of noth- ing, this self created misfortune is beginning to strike Mrs. Killjoy. She is such a nuisance that persons real ly do speak rudely to her sometimes to get rid of her. She has worried people concerning business matters so much that they really do not care when they pay her what they owe her or sometimes whether they pay her at all. When she makes bargains with people they sometimes do not keep their contracts. She has been saying all her life that she was thrown among williams who swind1od her, so what wonder if 1t is begin ming to be true?
 How to call down bad luck upon yourself Initiate Mrs. KillJOy. Tell- ing of bad luck brings bad luck.
 But if you would have good for tune, good health, plenty of friends, take exactly the opposite course. If unpleasant incidents occur during the day, for heavens sake, keep them to yourself. even put them out of your mind altogether. You can do 1t. Above all, don't pour the story of your petty annoyances all over other peo- pie. They will come to avoid and slight you.
 Maintain a brave. cheerful mind in the face of everything. When any