El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-05
Master Your Trouble S
Self Control VIII Make You Able to
TO Overcome Things That Give
the Most Annoyance.
Ella Wheeler WfIIeOx.-
IDEAS often come to you that up

GLrDEAS often come to you that up
lift you greatly for a time. The
- way to make them permanent is
to take hold of them by forming them
into words and repeating the words
until your subcOnsciOus self receives
them and begins to build with them.
For instance, a friend who had very
set opinions about right and wrong,
allowed herself to get very much
wrought up when things about her
went on in a way that to her seemed
wrong. She tried to practice self
control but never gained the victory
as she desired until one day when the
thought came to her that it was far
more important to demonstrate self
control than il was to have everything
so on about her as she thought it
should.
she did not want the idea to get
away from her, 50 she wrote it down
like this: It is not so important that
things go as as I think they should as
il is that / should be master Of them
through self control Then she re-
peated this again and again and held it
in the silence until the words became
the substance in her and gave her mind
Z firm hold so that in the next tempta-
ton 10 give way to her feelings, she
easily gained the victory. You can aD-
ply this in any kind Of experience you
may have
Unity.
whose manners and habits jar upon
you, apply this rule and watch de-
veIOpments.
once you control yourself you
will be surprised Il find how many
things which anrcy yOu will change
or dis .DPea-.
Just SO long as yon ale a servant
to your own irritable nerves and
succession of sharp CuIrers against
which you Jr'Iisc yourself at every
move.
Y"ur Attitrdc
The same rule applies in your home
What attitude are you taking toward
your own family and relatives and
friends and toward humanity?
Are you posing as martyr DO You
wear the resigned expression OF
WrOnged creature who must submit to
persecution, or a sUllen, resentful one,
or a belligerent One2
Are you thinking and broOding over
your wrongs and making yourself and
others miserable in consequence
II you are doing any one of these
things you are 4 criminal-far worse
than many a convict behind prison
bars. If you are disturbing the peace
of your household. the comfort of hus-
band, OF children, or relatives, or
friends by your temper, your COM
plants. or your sarcasm, then you are
a murderess.
angelic woman I ever knew was
wrOnged wife, a woman who had sUf-
fere every indignity and humiliation
and neglect possible from mean,
brutal natured man Yet she made
heaven for her children and friends in
her home.
She had learned this great law Of
becoming master of circumstances
through self control
Her Self Control
Although things about her were not
to her liking, she made all these things
seem as trifles before her calm self
She said to herself, Though
my best love and my best faith and
my sweetest hopes have been thrown
into the dust viii not let myself go
down.
Il have lost respect for the man to
whom I gave my life's happiness; but
I will not lose respect for myself; and
1 will show the world I can create
even if I cannot find il
where I hoped il would be. in my mar
ried life"
Surely this was better than becoming
sOured, aggressive, complaining and
pessimistic. and making her presence
dreaded by all her associates.
There was a great French writer
who said, IF you have not what you
like, like what you have"
But even il YOU cannot like your
environment. you can make yourself a
maser of it; and refuse absolutely
to be dominated by it