The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-21

small percentage of the doleful things
ever come to pass.
1t is pitiable thing to see vigor-
Gus men aud women, who have in
herited godlike qualities and bear the
impress of divinity, wearing anxious
faces and filled with all sorts of fear
and uncertainty, worrying about yes
terday, today, tomorrow-everything
imaginable.
In entering New York by train
every morning notice business men
with hard, tense expressions on their
faces, leaning forward when the train
approaches the station, as if they
could hasten its progress and save
time, many of them getting up from
their seats and rushing toward the
door several minutes before the train
stops. Anxiety is in every move
ment hurried nervousness in their
manner and their hard, drawn coun-
tenances-all these are indications of
an abnormal life.
Work kills no one, but worry has
killed multitudes. tits not the doing
of things of which Injuries us so much
as the dreading OF them-not only
performing them mentally over and
over again, but anticipating some
thing disagreeable in that perform
ance.
Many of US approach an unpleas-
ant task in much the same condition
as runner who begins his start such
a long distance away that by the time
he reaches his objective point-the
ditch or the stream which Is to test
his agility-he is too exhausted to
jump across.
Worry not only saps vitality and
wastes energy, but it also seriously
affects the quality of ones work. 1t
cuts down ability. A man cannot
get the same quality of efficiency into
his work when his mind is troubled.
The mental faculties must have per-
feet freedom before they will give out
their best. A troubled brain cannot
think clearly, vigorously and logi-
cally. The attention cannot be con-
centrated with anything like the same
force when the brain cells are poison
ed with axiety as when they are fed
by pure blood and are clean and un-
cloudy. The blood of chronic wor-
riers is vitiated with poisonous chem
ical substances and broken-down tis-
sues, according to Professor Elmer
Gates and other noted scientists, who
have shown that the passions and the
harmful emotions cause actual chem.
ical changes in the secretions and
generate poisonous substances in the
body which are fatal to healthy growth
and action.
The brain-cells are constantly bath
ed in the blood, from which they
draw their nouishment, and when the
blood is loaded with the poison of
fear, worry, anger, hatred or jeal-
ousy, the protoplasm of those delicate
cells becomes hardened and very ma
terially impaired.
The most pathetic effect of worry
is its impairment of the thinking
powers. 1t so clogs the brain and
paralyzes thought that the results of
the workers. work merely mock his
ambition, and often lead to the drink
or drug habit. Its continued friction
robs the brain cells of an opportunity
to renew themselves and so after
awhile there is a breakdown of the
nervous system and then the worrier
suffers from insomnia and other ner-
vous ailments, and sometimes becomes
hopelessly insane.
If you never accomplish anything
else in life, get rid of worry. There
are no greater enemies of harmony
than little anxieties and petty cares.
Do not flies aggravate nervous horse
more than his regular work? Do not
little naggings, constantly touching
him with the whip, or jerking at the
reins fret and worry him more than
the labor of drawing the carriage?
It is the little pin-pricks, the petty
annoyances of our day life, that
mar our comfort and happiness and
rob US of more strength than the great
troubles which we nerve ourselves to
meet. 1t is the perpetual scolding
and fault-fnding of an irritable man
or woman which ruins the entire peace
and happiness Of many home.
An habitual worrier-an aged wo-
man-said to her physician, "My
head feels dull-like, and I've kinder
lost the power to worry over things. "
A great many people would be much
troubled were they to lose the power
to worry over things. They think il
their duty to worry. They would
not feel that they were conscientiou:
or faithful if they were not always
anxious over what they were doing.
They would not think they were
showing proper interest.
Anticipating a thing tends to bring
it to US. Worry about disease is
disease producer. 1t is we'll known
that many victims of the great plague:
of history have been slain simply by
fear and dread.
The digestive organs are extremel,
sensitive to worry, and when the di
gestion is interfered with the Who'll.
physical economy is thrown into dis
order.
Worry and fear will not only whittier
the hair, but will also cause prema
ture badness condition known a:
nervous badness. Another result i!
loss of tone and elasticity in the
facial muscles. "The lips, cheeks
and lower jaw" says Darwin, "al
sink downward from their owi
weight"
Worry not ouly makes woman
look older, but also actually make
her older. 1t is a chisel which cut
cruel burrows in the face. 1 hav,
seen face so completely changed by