Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-21
People MILO Do Not Worry.

eager quest. had ut last fastened him
Sell, upon, mis- gHat nam, DIR. Samuel
rHaSon, and hEld prevailed upon his
| f:rro to dire with him al his lodgings
OF a ctrttin night. Whom the plans
were unfol'!"d to- EoZZys landlord the
Girurlsh fellow refused TO :S;lnetiijn th..
M'rty. EusWrll Was in the direst dis
irCss Of mind, and related his prcdica.
ment in confusion to the ;!earn.sa doc
tor. The philosophic Johnson laughed
1T his perturbation, anG said, &c risive-
ly, "Considcr, sir how ,rifing this will
all appear tWelvcmonth hence The
clouds rolled away, the tempest in the
light nind abated, TIE worry ceased.
| boswell commclils the rer;pe. to the
| world, and it is passing fair. Addison
cnuhscls US with 4 c:lln, whch he coulG
rot command when he WAS snubbed
| by his naughty spouse, the Countess.
to remember that in the great majority
Of cases the foTbCdings of disaster
| md evil are much more serious than
| the troubles themselves. because IN
many instances the very evils So much
| dreaded never come at all
Worry is the cause of a vast deal Of
| the sorrow of the world. and the lam
eniable feature consists in the fIct that
| most of the worry is groundless as
| we'll as futile.
| The charming writer of fairy tales
| Grimm. has in the most delightful fash
| ion depicted in simple terms tho. char
| a~teriSticS of those who actually go
cut of their way to worry; cOriurc it
up, and hurt for it. Clever .licc is an
adaptatiOn of tn" old English folklore
Story familiar 20 West Of England
| children. 4 traveller came TO Il cot
ta2e in which he found man and wife
hld their little r!aidCn.- The girl was
sent to the cellar to draw pot of beer
for The Travellers refrcshmcnt. She
stayed Il long liirc and her mother who
went to see what kept her, found her
seated on the box crying as if her
| heart you'll break. The daughter be-
| lag questioned. said that when she
| turned the spiSot in the cask she
| looked up and saw the great AK sus-
lehded ovc" her head from the ceiling.
and she thought to herself, suppose
| the gentleman upstairs should marry
her and she should have Il little bov
and the little boy SHOULD be sent down
| for Il pot ot beer, ana suppose the aX
| 'i'dii IAN 'jIl ilI'l sil.l hill !ilI.. IJIon
| ,oh. Wiltr--at III. simple ,:!other fen
to crying. The father went down then
3ni when he was told what was the
matter he began to sob, and ut last
| tn" traveller inquired the cause OF the
| trouble. When f.- was told ard saw
| the ccll::r flooded with berf, he s\vorr
| Il great round ntti. that if he could
| tird in MI the world three uth,r az
great fools as those in die cellar h.
| would surely marry the girl.
He went his way ana saw an old wo-
| man standing on lie roof of her
| matched cottage, Juggling with all her
might ana main "n Il rope tied about
| her cows neck. "What are YOU trying
10 do, old woman" he asked "Oh.
| Slr, said she, "'to you see that nice
'tHhch Of green grass growing from tine
| lhatch" Hni tfE:uE tn pull the co.'s.
| up here To eat it," Tine traveller Sug-
gestrd that size might pun the grass
| ANA thro" il down to the cow, ANA
then IN knew llr tai found fool num-
Der me. AND 50 n" story goes. lie
soon found the Requisite number OF
fools ANA married liz. girl
This is ali in III" realm Of fairy tales:
i'll real life the r"GIisll vino worry are
too numerous. ana those with the dis
position To worry over ;liirs catch no
husbands through that talent; they let
the beer flow over the cellar floor.
That Kind of worry is fatal 10 the
happiness Of those who are addicted to
it. and "f those with whom the I'M
happy persons come III contact. But
there are worries in life which are like
tho If no AZ t.I,-
cannot be evaded. There are different
ways of meeting troubles and of SUR
mounting them, but highly civilized
beings cannot escape them; nor should
they be taught lot to worry about the
welfare of their families. character,
honor and duty. The test of a mans
sensihilitieS ana feeling and character
is often his disposition to worry about
those things which should cause him
SOlicitLde.
One Of the most noted If the chart
table associations in New York recently
mace a careful study of the causes of
wife GtscrtiCn. There was Il large per-
centage of the dcscrters who did fairly
well by their families so long as they
had steady work and no undue trouble.
but the instant Il crisis appeared i'll
their affairs they promptly disappeared
and left their helpless families III Il ter
rihc plight. Another class of deserturs
left TIER families when serious illness
appeared III their home, and in general
the descrtcrS proved rccrcant when
their personal comfort and peace of
mind were lrcnaccd. These Wretched
paopl, are part of Il llrg" class in our
civilization who refuse to be Worried.
Evcry criminal court hearing tells the
same story. The goodfor- nothing.
careless reprobatcs are the ones who
cvade worry and appear incapable of
assuming responsibility or submitting
to the cures of life.
A wis" Greek philosopher sail more
than two thousand years ago that lit is
necessary to be in n certain degrco
trained from our very childhood to feel
pleasure and pain At what we Ought:
for this is education In its true sense.
Only the Wrctchcdiy tallOHs creature
" no has 4 strong diEos ton ana TO CON
sc:tncr can Ebre Ia escape the worries
Of life. but tin" aim for an honorable
pan should be- to shun the triiiin@ vcX- 4