The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-05
''HOPE''
NH - 'EsE I'll III
BY GlflIIan Scott.
BY eilhIIan Scott.


mind.
Hopeful people are healthy people
and healthy people are hopeful people.
It follows that if you want to be
healthy you must first be hopeful
Also 1t follows that if you want to
be unhealthy and pine away and die
and have a beautiful marble tomb
stone covered with carved lies in low
ing memory of what you could have
been and should have BEEN just settle
down into a lazy, torpid, hopeless con-
dition, and they'll be measuring you
for a wooden overcoat in no time.
But" you say, I've nothing left to
hope for
make something to hope for. Find
something to do and do it with all
your might.
No, I'm not going to lecture you
about hopes of heaven; that's too
closely associated with the marble
tombstone.
You just live a fair and square life
and give everyone a square deal and
heaven will take care Of itself
Most of the longings for heaven are
really lodgings of work due to be
done right here; a desire to secure a
mansion above and live in easy street
forever after.
The majority of suicides are cow
ardly people who slip out of the back
door and, run away, instead Of facing
the music and coming out all the
stronger for the experience.
Kipling says he would never commit
suicide because, when things had got
to their very worst, he would be too
curious to know what could happen
next.
Do you know that a weak man can
make himself strong simply by being
hopeful?
Do you know that a strong man can
make weak, hopeless man strong
simply by instilling hope into him?
Do You know that hope is the finest
tonic in this whole, wide world?
We have seen cards bearing the
legend Smile" I believe it would
help us all at times if we had not only
cards but big, street-wide banners, in
scribed in six-foot letters, HOPE"
Hope is akin to cheerfulness, and
cheerfulness is a wonderful aid to di-
gestion.
Hopeless people have no appetite;
but hopeful, cheerful peoplei OH my!
I forgot all about the high cost of Nv
fngi those hopeful souls have such
big appetites!
can see I've landed myself into a
pretty fix.
What will the restaurant keepers
say about me if I go and make every
body hopeful, which means hungry? /
mean those places that supply a cut
and again table dhote at a fixed
price.
Mark Twain tells of man suffering
from arrears of appetite who bestowed
his custom upon such a restaurant
keeper, who had started business that
morning.
At the end Of three-quarters of an
hour the proprietor asked whether the
townspeople were all afflicted with ap-
petites like his, to which he received
an affirmative reply.
He promptly went outside and took
down his sign.
Mark didn't say whether the GUS
toner was hopeful, but the proprietor |
evidently thought the prospect hope
less.
Good old Mark Twain, the king of |
humor and the seer of things as they |
are: on your feet, gentlemen: here's |
to his memory.
And yet another, now we're talking. |
Charles Dickens has inmortalized |
and hopefulness in the |
character of Mark Tapley, who en-
courages young Martin Chuzzlewit |
under the most depressing circum- |
stances; and, when things are at their |
durndest, thumps himself on the chest |
and says to himself, Mark, my boy, |
now's the opportunity of your life, for |
there's really some credit in being |
cheerful under these circumstances"
And that's the way to be hopeful: |
insist upon being hopeful all the time; |
not part of the time, but absolutely |
and without exception all the time; |
for whilst there's life there's hope.
Hopefulness can be cultivated until |
It becomes a habit; a habit which will |
add years to your life, strength to
your elbow and dollars to your bank
ing account.
Hope will give you added confidence |