The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-19
|SM|LE. AND DON'T
Be BIG CROUCH
This 10 Advice Which Kansas CITY
Editor Gives and Which 10
Timely just It
Present.
Mustn't MIND WEATHER
Some People Are Affected BY Every
Little Change Until They Be-
come NuIsances to Them
selves Even.
mustn't MIND WEATHER

Many people are strangely sensitive
to the weather. II the sun fails 20
shine for few days. they develop
Ilarge-sized, full grown Crouch" and
some of them actually become
nuisance to themselves and others.
They must have gloomy weather in
Kansas City and 1t must have the
same effect upon people in Kansas
City that 1t does in Keokuk. and
therefore the editor OF the Kansas
City Star took his pen In hand and
wrote as follows. which will be good
reading and excellent advice, even
after the sun comes out again, for
isome there are whose Crouch has
nothing to do with the weather:
A man in this town who is nearly
sixty years old seems to be about
forty.
That man has never been out of q
job. Hard times come and pinch the
business house where he works, ana
men are discharged who are better ed
ucated than he, more able than he to
do his work, but he stays on the job.
He has just one conspicuous talent
the gift OF always being glad.
He's the youngest fellow on the
whole works." said his employer the
Iother day when retrenchment was be.
ing considered. 81 need his smile
around here to cheer me up" And
while others went, he stayed-because
he sings at his work.
It pays to be cheerful
A glad, enthusiastic, hopeful dispo-
sition is real asset. It keeps a man
young. He is. like Kipling's Kim.
"the friend Of all the world" And all
the world 10 the friend OF the man
with the hearty laugh and the CHEEKY
outlook upon all things around.
A churlish nature, fault finding.
harsh. cold manner is pullback to
any man. Many young man, trying
to climb, has been dragged down py3
the letters of cynical. discouraging
manner. Tho glad man attracts like
Q loadstone. The churl repels.
A thousand proverbs, old and mod
ern. teach this lesson.
"A good word maketh the heart
glad said Solomon good many cen
turtles ago.
Laugh, and the world laughs with
you; weep and you weep Alone" says
a more modern wise one.
Tell your troubles to a policeman"
says the philosopher Of the streets to-
day.
In every age and cline the same
no room for the man or the woman
with a crouch.
Grouchiness is . habit of mind. It
begins with grumbling and fault md
ing and Impotence over trifies that 20
wrong. And. like Longfellow's turnip
behind the barn. II grows, and grows
and grows.
The wife who begins by grumbling
a little at her husband develops the
Eabit until she becomes a nag and a
scold.
The man who begins by growing at
his imaginary troubles ends in becom-
ing a full grown crouch, with q scowl
on his face that even the dogs scare
at.
The surest beginnings of the crouch
habit comes by nursing imaginary
troubles and nearly all troubles are
imaginary.
Look back ten or twenty years Tho
troubles that worried you then, what
became OF them? Forgotten long ago.
They weren't worth worrying about.
You know that now.
Neither are your troubles OF today.
sorrow may come to call, but viii
not take him as lodger," says a
Turkish proyerb.
II the crouch habit Is growing with
in you. pluck 1t out. now.
Be genial and glad. Smile. Be kind.
Be cheerful. Cultivate a happy frame
of mind Force your face to smile Il
you have to, and soon the face Of the
whole world will smile back at you.