The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-12-01
WHATEVER You DO,
DON'T WHINE,

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have ordained that the persistent
wilmer shall want for everything eX-
cept something to whine about.
Disappointment sardonically meets
HIM at every turn. Misfortune ever
turks in his shadow. The whine is
a signal call to a thousand and one
little demons of distress and disas-
ter, which mock and lash, hinder
and dishearten.
Psychology has pretty well estab-
lished the theory that ghosts are
creations of the subjective mind
and trouble-finding is very much like
ghost-seeing. You see blurs and
blotches. which, if properly traced,
will be found to begin and end their
actual existence in your own eye or
stomach or liver. There is nothing
else you can look for with so much
certainty of finding it as trouble.
But have you ever noticed that
most of your troubles are of tomor-
row. that few of them are really
present today, that there are hardly
any worth mentioning in all your
past? If anticipation did not go
more than half way to meet troubles
most of them might miss their way
and never get near you.
He who whines does himself injury
such as his meanest enemy could
not do to him if he would. He
warps his own mind; he weakens
his own arm: he eneryates his own
strength: he deadens within himself
the divine gifts of cheer and hope
and he dams up his own soul against
the sweet inspirations of human
sympathy.
Never yet did success worthy OF
the name abide with man with a
whine in his heart. A whine is pre-
meditated and prearranged failure
a whining voice means whining
character. 1t is a mark OF weakness
too inexcusable even to excite pity.
The broadcast charity shrinks and
draws back the hand at sound of a
human whine-a sound more DISCUS
ting and dismsying than the hiss of
snake.
They say that one of the things
YOU cannot make or alter is environ
ment-that it is fixed, inflexible, and
that you are its slave. This is a
pessimistic lie. To our own moods
environment is looking glass; it
smiles back at us if we smile: if we
frOwn, it frowns. He who thinks
the world is full of good people and
kindly blessings is much richer than
he who thinks the contrary. Each
mans imagination largely peoples
the world for himself. Some live in
a world peopled with princes of the
royal blood; some in world of pau
pers and privation. You have your
choice.
This is a big, busy world. 1t cares
precious little what you think Of it
or what faults or troubles you find in
it. 1t is choice that concerns your
self more than all others combined,
whether you Crouch in the gloom,
the companion of hateful COLLINS, or
stride in the sunshine, seeing smiles
and catching shreds Of song.
Men and women in Gods image
were not made as whining, groveling
things. They were made to stand
erect, mentally as well as physically
to labor we'll and jOyOusly; to take
the gifts of providence, whether they
be Joy or sorrow, and bear them
cheerfully and with courage; to add
ever something to the worlds store
of happiness. if it be only smile.
Look up! See how flooded with
sunshine this beautiful world is
when faced with smiling eyes? If
you would win anything, do any
thing, be anything. don't whine.