The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
NO GOOD AT WORRYING.
Moved by This Verdict, Mr.. Billtops
Ventures on a Few Remarks.

From the New York Sun.
You're no good at worryin', Mrs. Bill
tops says to me, and" Mr.. Billtops adj
mitted. that is true never was much
of hand to worry.
Just now we've had about half the
house torn up while the men were kali
somining some of the ceilings and that
sort Of a job does make an awful mess
If had my way about it / never would
have a thing done to a house while
lived in it.
I'D let the ceilings show patches from
water leaked through from overhead till
they looked like the first efforts in fresco
work of a prentice artist who used d.
luted mud for paint, but / never would
have them touched. If the ceilings didn't
fall down, I'd let 'em stay just that way
as long as / lived in the house, for
don't like to be disturbed.
but those ceilings certainly were bad,
and Mrs. Billtops said they ought to be
done. and of course I agreed, and so for
some days now we've been all torn up,
with kasomne scattered everywhere and
tracked all over the house. 1t was this
state Of affairs that prompted Mrs. Bill
tops remark about me.
Just think she says, as she surveyed
the furniture piled up in other rooms after
the men had gone for the day, Just think.
We're going through all this now, and
we're going to move year from now,
and then we'll have to go through 1t all
again
7 Eyes says l. and just as likely as not
two or three years from that we'll move
again, and then there'll be more trouble
It's then that Mrs. Biltops says to me:
Ezra you're no good at worryin.'
"And that's a fact. / never borrowed
trouble, the one thing that you can al
ways borrow, however tight the money
market I never worry over anything
that can't be helped.
"Of course, there's danger here; we
can get this anti-worry habit in too pro-
nounced a form; we can persuade our
selves that everything belongs In the can't
be helped category, and so degenerate in
to listless don't care folks. If we amount
to anything, and are entitled to get along
without worry, we've got to keep our end
up; but, as / said, If don't do anything
mean and am not neglectful, I don't per-
nit myself to worry. I take a cheerful
view.
"But I'd hate to have you think because
I say that of myself that Mrs. Biltops Is
O worrier, for she isn't. II I'm not taking
up too much of your time, I would say
right here that / have never yet met
anybody that didn't worry some, and. as
a matter of fact, I suppose little worry
ing is a healthful irritant for us, but
there's different ways of worrying.
Some folks carry their worries about
with them all the time and worry and dis
tress everybody about them; and then
there are some people that keep their
worries to themselves, If they have any.
and put on a good front and go about
with smiling faces; these last thereby
gaining strength to conquer their troubles
and by the same effort comforting bless
ing on all the rest Of mankind.
ut is to this last named class that Mrs.
Biltops belongs. a woman of indomitable
courage, and II she has anything 10 worry
over she never brings 1t out in public. AT
home or abroad she sweeps around UNI
daunted, ever smiling, cheerful, helpful
and sympathetic, ever bearing the trou-
bles and worries of others who lay them