Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-02

health as as much to do with our sue
cess and happiness as any other thing.
The fog that bothers us most of all
Is that we carry on our faces, that
which rises from our heart fears. Once
savage man lived in perpetual fear of
innumerable malignant spirits; civil
lied man lives In fear of invisible and
imaginary accidents. For every real foe
that has to be faced we fight out hypo-
thetical battles with dozen shadows,
Worry Is matter of outlook and
habit. 1t depends, first Of all, on
whether you are going to take all the
facts into account and look on life as
whole, or see only the dismal posi-
bilities. Then it depends on whether
you Will yield continually to the blue
moods that may arise from apprehen-
sion or from indigestion until you have
become color blind to all but the blue
things.
How trivial are the things over
which we worry, by means of which we
| cultivate the enslaving habit of
worry, whether we will catch the ap-
preaching car or the one that will come
two minutes later; whether 1t will rain
when we want it to shine, or shine
when we want 1t to rain.
| How ineffective it all Is. Whoever
| by worrying all night succeeded in
bringing about the kind of weather he
wanted? More than that, 1t is fatal
to successfully accomplishing those
things that do lie within our power.
The worry over catching train or
doing a piece of work SO agitates the
mind and unsettles the will that it re-
duces the chances of efficiency.
But there are larger causes of worry
than these sickness, loss, impending
disasters. Yet how futile to help and
how potent to increase these Ills is
worry. The darkest days and the
| deepest sorrows need that we should
be at our best to meet them. To yield
TO fear and fretting is to turn the pow
ers Of heart and brain from allies to
| enemies.
No occasion is so great or so small
| that we can afford to meet 1t either
with fear or without forethought. The
imperative obligation to make the most
| or our lives Is not met by apprehend-
ing the worst, but by doing the best we
can. We have no right to give to fore
holdings the time and force we need
for preparing for and actually meeting
our duties.
The best cure for worry is work. In
| the larger number of instances If we
but do our work well we shall have no
need to worry over the results. Much
Ct our fearful fretting is but a confes-
sion Of work lily done and the appre-
hension of deserved consequences.
Then faithful work by absorbing the
thought and energies cures the habit
of worry. 1t is the empty mind that
falls first prey to foreboding, and is
most easily filed with the specters of
woe. Do your work with all your
might; let 1t go at that, knowing that
no amount Of further thought can af-
| feet the issue of It
No matter how dark the way, how
empty the scrip, the cheerful heart has
sunshine and. feasting. And this not
by blind Indifference childish op-
| timism, but by the blessed faculty of
finding the riches that are by every
wayside, OF catching at all the good
there is in living. If you would dispel
your gloom and depreciate your bur
dens, begin to appreciate your bless
ings. Dc your best, seek out the best.
believe in the best, and the best shall
] be