The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
EASEasS60 Among Men Who Work Hand Brein 81.
How to Make Most of Yourself;
The Great Value of Cheerfulness.
BvC S. MADDOCKS.
By C.. S. MADDOCKS.

secrets too easily when 1 am down hearted.
y good many people at such times-and the
worse the times the more likely they are to
do it-lose their natural self-respecting reti-
cence at the period when they need it most
chat is. when low spirits or misfortune over
take them
The cheerful man does not need to take
the world into his confidence and tell it of
his losses and unappreciated struggles. He is
self-suffiCient. We carry happiness into
our condition. but must not hope to find 1t
there" and it is possible to carry cheerful
Eess into a time when everything goes
dead wrong" e To keep patience and sereni-
ty and sweetness of spirit under trying cir
cunstances is fairly to create their spiritual
quality as a permanent possession OF life"
says one of our latest transcendentalists.
There are times, says poet when it is as
easy for the heart to be tue as the grass
to be green or the sky to be blue. There are
people who are born to take cheerful views
Of life. but the world is full of proofs that
any one may achieve this happy faculty.
Y h.ch is accounted both gift and grace.
It lies within your Own option TO free your
own individual life from fret, worry disap-
porntments, and annoyanCes.
There is no doubt that the inability to
take a more or less cheerful view of things
disappointing, to see perhaps the amusing
things in a failure. has driven men insane
One can almost say it was why the great
Ruskin lost his mind. He gave his large
fortune. his energy, his time. to convince
the world of things it little needed. His
disposition soured under the strain and his
mind gave way. He never said a more pa
thetic thing than a. was good natured
once: but I beg to state in the most positive
terms, that I am now old. tired, and very Ill
natured."
Ruskfn worried over his failures He was
too eager to relax bit. Worry is the dis
ease OF this modern time, says DR.. c. w
Saleeby. one of whose books is called q" Wor-
ry the Disease of the Age" He claims that
there is no evidence to prove that men kill
themselves by Overwork. but they do kill
themselves by worry every day. man
thrives on work that he is equal to. can do
without strain. When there is strain there
is worry and danger to health.
A man may easily worry himself into
bankruptcy He thinks himself into the
position he breads. When worry assumes
form Of pcrmanency something must be
done and that right early.
But there are times says even DR.. Sa!eeby.
wen a man should worry but not many
and he should not get into the habit. These
times are those when. If he does not worry,
Some one else has to. Robert Louis Steven
son speaks Of " the great double danger Of
taking life too easily and taking it too hard
how difficult It is to balance that" One OF
Stevensons friends, long an invalid on a
hospital bed. wrote many poems of the most
cheerful sort. in one Of which occurs the line
Content this miracle of being alive" As
long as We have something to he thankful
for. as long as We can count but a single
mercy. We can be cheerful.