Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-01

OF good taste in people in spite of outer
| teAhement Japan has its weak points.
| TOO yet 1T has good points. I don't
forget the good points. There are many
ihlhSSS IN America that test ones faith
| III olrlStlanIty, Yet Christianity in
america is the one Ieaven Of this by
XXrylioyIng materialistic society.-New
Don't Brood Over Mistakes.
There ara many people who sit down
anu brood over MISTAKES of the mast.
Ihey do not realize that in doing so they
ere making the biggest mistake of ali
besides losing valuable time that could
De aeN9ted to something profitable, they
are uniting themselves for the duties
winch lie before them.
broodlng over past mistakes never
heiped anyone. 1t is possible that we
nave through a mistake, lost a good on
portunity or jeopardized our chances Of
success in life, but breeding over it wont
br!lg pack the lost opportunity or facili-
late our future success. But il will tend
10 make us less capable and more tilnid
IN the future, and whatever affects CON
ndence IN our own strength and creates
doubt OF our own ability will be a serious
obstacle to success.
Don't brood over mistakes you have
made. They are of the past, and no
human being can recall and rectify the
errors he has made. We some times think
that II we could only live our lives
over, beginning with childhood days.
we could accomplish enormous things.
Perhaps we could, and perhaps we
couldn't. We might avoid the mistakes
we have made but, in doing ST., fall into
others far more serious in their effect
upon our lives.
Everybody makes mistakes There
never was, and never will be, a human
being who lived without making mis-
takes. We don't know they are ms
takes, as general rule. until they have
been made. We do what we think is
best and it turns out worse therefore,
1t is called a mistake, anG the whole
world censureS US because we have been
so stupid. If it had turned out the 9th
er way, the world would have praised us
for our shreWdness and farsghtedneSs.
Mistakes sometimes lead to success. At
all events, don't brood over them. Let
them lie buried, with only a sign to
warn you lest yoC should be tempted 70
commit the same mistake again.-Spare
Moments.
~O...o~
Stop Worrying!
In the current Harpers Bazaar, DIR.
S. S. McComb of the Emmanuel church,
Boston, has an extremely interesting ar
ticle on Worry" iii which he discusses
not only the condition, but the cause and
cure. He says, among other things:
Consider for a moment the physio-
logical effect of the worry habit. Re
grets, doubts, scrupulosities, fears, ankle
ties apprehensons-these harpies lay
hold of the mind, shake it to its center,
and turn existence into a life of death.
But then man is not mind alone; he is
the unity of mind and body. The ply
Biological psychologists never tire of
ringing the changes ON the mutual in
fluence of mind and body, on the abso-
lutte solidarity of brain and thought In
deed. some notable thinkers in our time
have gone so tar as to say that what we
call mental and what we call physical
are not two separate entities, but two
aspects of one and the same thing. How
ever this may be, we know that, as Prof.
James puts it, All mental states are
followed by activity of some sort. They
lead to inconSpicuous changes in breath
ing, circulation. general muscular ten
sion, and glandular or other visceral ac-
tivity, even if they do not lead to con-
spicuous movements of the muscles of
the voluntary life Now, what sort of
physical activity does worry lead to!
Through the medium of the sympathetic
and yaso-motor nerves it affects for evil
the secretions OF the stomach and bow
els, retards digestion, disturbs the prop
err elimination of waste products from
the system, and thus sets up kind of
self-poisoning or administration.
Through the same physical machinery it
affects the caliber of the blood vessels
and thus disturbs the circulation of the
blood. Under the pressure of worry
these nerves contract: with the removal
of the worry they relax, and the blood
flows once more freely. Thus we can
see how worry can give rise to dyspep-
STA and constipation, with all their
brood Of attendant miseries.'
1880
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