Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-11-01

| 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 a 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
a whole, or see only the dismal posi-
bilities. Then it depends on whether
you viii 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
NulS, "uStlSi we Will NdkCu L4lS
preaching car or the one that will come
two minutes later; whether it will rain
when we want it to shine, or shine
when we want it to rain
How ineffective it all is. Whoever
by worrying all night succeeded in
bringing about the kind Of weather be
wanted? More than that, 1t is fatal
to successfully accomplishing those
things that do lie within our power.
The worry over catching a train or
doing a piece of work so agitates the
mind and unsettles the will that 1t 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 it either
with fear or without forethought. The
imperative obligation to make the most
Of 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
bOdings 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
Of 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 it go at that knowing that
no amount of further thought can af-
feet the issue of 1t.
No matter how dark the way, how
empty the scrip, the cheerful heart has
sunshine and feasting. And this not
by a blind Indifference, childish OPP
t1mism, 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 dlspel
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 shalb
be.