The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-18
GRuMRLERs NEVER GET ON.

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on. Nature in sarcastic mood seems
to have ordained that the persistent
wilmer shall want for everything ex-
cept something to whine about. Disap-
pointment sardonically meets him at
every turn. Misfortune ever turks in
his shadow. The whine is signal
call to a thousand and one little de-
mons of distress and disaster, which
mock and lash, hinder and disheart-
en-
Psychology has pretty well estab-
lished the theory that ghosts are Gre
atoms of the subjective mind-and
trouble finding is very like ghost see
ing. You see blurs and blotches
which, if properly traced, will be
found to begin and end their actual
existence in your own eyes or stomach
or liver. There is nothing else you
can look for with so much certainty of
finding it as trouble.
But have you never noticed that
most of your troubles are of tomorrow,
few of them are really present today,
that few of them are really present
today, that there are hardly any worth
mentioning in all your past? If antici-
patton did not go more than half way
to meet troubles most of them might
miss their way and never get near you.
He who whines does himself injury
such as his meanest enemy could not
do to him if he would. He warps his
own mind; he weakens his own arm;
he enervates his own strength; he
deadens within himself the divine gifts
of cheer and hope, and he dams up his
own soul against the sweet inspira-
tons of human sympathy Never yet
did success worthy of the name abide
with man with whine in his heart.
A whine is premeditated and pre-
arranged failure. A whining voice
means weakness too inexcusable even
to excite pity. The broadcast charity
shrinks and draws back the hand at
sound of a human whine-a sound
more dismaying than the hiss of a
snake.
They say that one of the things you
cannot make or alter is environment;
that it is fixed, inflexible, and that you
are it's helpless slave. That is lie.
To our own moods environment is a
looking glass; it smiles back at us il
we smile; if we frown, it frowns.
He who thinks the world is full OF
good people and kindly blessings is
much richer than he who thinks the
contrary. Each mans imagination
largely peoples the world for himself
Some live in world peopled with
princes Of the royal blood; some in q
world of paupers and privation. You
have your choice.
| This is a big, busy world. It cares
| precious little what you think of it OF
what faults or troubles you find in it
1t is choice that concerns yourself
more than all others combined wheth
er you crouch in the gloom, the com
panion of hateful COLLINS, or stride il
the sunshine, seeing smiles and catch
ing shreds of song.
| Men and women in Gods image
were not made as whining, grovelins
things. They were made to stanG
erect, mentally as well as physically
to labor well and joyously; to take the
gifts of Providence, whether they be
joy or sorrow, and bear them cheer
fully and with courage; to add evel
something to the worlds store of hap
penings, if it be only smile
/ Look up! See how flooded will
sunshine this beautiful world is wher
faced with smiling eyes.
II you would win anything, do any
thing, be anything, don't whine!-
Memphis News Scimetar.
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