The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-29
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
ONLY AFTER REAL TROUBLE
COMES YOU APPRECIATE
EVERYDAY JOYS.

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EVERYDAY JOYS.
You don't know how happy you are in
your every day normal condition untD
old Trouble comes along and hits you
tremendous whack, says the Chicago
Tribune.
| And, since you never know when this
unwelcone gentleman will make call, it
is just as well TO enjoy yourself while
you can.
Annoyances are everywhere outside Of
paradise.
You can't escape them and be healthy.
You are bound 10 have certain amount
Of unhappiness and there is no need wor-
rying about it until it arrives.
Most Of the misery we experience is in
anticipating trouble and then talking
about It for ten years after it's all over
with.
There is a whole lot in knowing how TO
live just right-and even after you know,
it's even harder 10 live H.
We can Just do our best, be as cheerful
and happy as the law allows. and when
trouble comes hanging around the corners
meet him Ike a man.
When he gives you a whack. jump up
and smile and say to yourself: 'To-mor-
row. my dear. tomorrow"
| Just remember that all troubles, Ike
plenty Of bad people. get 10 the end Of
their rope when given time enough.
Let them disappear naturally.
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them to an unsympathetic world, which
has heart grief of its own. and doesn't
give a single. solitary rap for ali Of your
sufferings.
And all these old troubles about which
you are fretting and making yourself old
and wretched and disagreeable VIII one
day be completely wiped of the calendar
OF your years.
There is nothing Ike a few good, hard
knockout blows from Trouble to bring out
ones resources.
Some great sorrow is surely essential TO
the humanizing Of every soul
Never until we have experienced deep
sorrow ourselves can We offer but lip
sympathy 10 those who have gasped
through the sea Of trouble.
! They who have known only days OF
comparative prosperity cannot interpret
the despairing sigh OF the friendless.
They who have never dropped tears into
the graves Of their own dead cannot
measure tho agony Of that last. lingering
look. as they are hidden forever from
sight
Be courageous,
Force yourself to be pleasant and say
the bright things that come 10 your lips.
/ Hard?
or course IL IS!
But its a good fight. this one against
| allowing ones self to be submerged IN
personal griefs. and out it you can come
a conqueror IL you will.
Not one OF US can learn 20 become
lighthearted in a day, or a week, or a
month. or year. for il is the lesson of
life. this. knowing how 10 lift up our
hearts and smile. and work on, when
Trouble has given US a knockout blow.
But there is always a remedy for a
heavy heart
II may be good. hard. aIl-absorblng
/ werk-it oftenest IS.
It may be in thinking out Joys that
have been given 70 you. and the sor-
rows from which you have been saved.
Il may be In helping others by SYM
PATTY, or IN whatever way help in most
needed.
II may be in forgetting self entirely.
and IN remembering and relieving the
needs Of others as far as possible.
It may be in thinking OF what you
have IN life that IS good.
/ II may be in thinking out what the
future has 10 hold for you until your
/ heart grows light, and the world seems
full Of sunshine
No one has a right 10 make his grief a
burden 10 the rest Of the world.
We all have the privilege Of working out
and overcoming our sorTOws.
Fate grants US that much.
II Is only the worker who knows the
blssful possibilities on an idle hour as
only one who has suffered knows the true
value Of happiness
But, above all. do not be one OF the peo-
PIE who insist on sprinkling mustard on
fresh wounds Of grief or disappointment,
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suggesting remedies.
If you would only let them alone and be
cheerful and sympathtio, you would give
them real help.
/ One word Of encouragement Is worth a
volume Of sympathy.
The one In trouble does not need your
tears. while your smiles are q fortune Of
cheer
The kindest thing we can Go for people
in great grief is not to refer TO its causes.
To try and keep their mind away from
It, TO cheer them, and through kindness
and love call them away from their sor-
row.
Was there ever a sorrow in that man
or woman's life? one often asks oneself
as he looks upon a face beaming with
smiles.
Was there ever q moment when, for
that man or that woman, a sorrow threw
over the wide earth the pail Of unrest?
Have they ever wept and sighed, OF
clasped their hands In anguish?
Those who know life never ask those
questions, for they know how much fire
may be hidden under a lava crusted ex-
terror; that there are divers masks worn
in this harlequin world Of ours; that
there are few whom Trouble has not
given a whack.