Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-02-10
DON'T BE A CROUCH.

Laugh and the world laughs with
you. weep and you weep alone.
Solomon said "a merry heart
maketh a cheerful countenance."
He might also have added that a
cheerful countenance IS valuable IN
dollars and cents.
The Kansas City star. touching TINS
subject, gives the following lesson
which every boy and young man
should learn:
A man In this town who IS nearly
60 years old seems to be about 40
That man has never been out OF a
fob. Hard times come and pinch the
business house where he works and
men are discharged who are better
educated than he, more able than he
10 do his work. but he stays on the
Job.
lie has Just one conspicuous talent
the gift Of always being glad.
"He's the youngest fellow on the
whole works" said his employer the
other day when retrenchment was be-
ing considered. q need his smile
around here to cheer me up And
while others went he stayed-oe-
cause he sings az his work.
It pays to be cheerful.
A glad. enthusiastic, hopeful dispo-
sition is a real asset. II keeps a man
Young He IS, like Kipling's KIM
"the friend Of all the world And
all the world is the friend Of the man
with the hearty laugh and the CHEEKY
outlook upon all the things around.
A churlish nature. a fault-hnding
harsh, cold manner is a pullback ia
any man. Many a young man. trying
TO climb. has been dragged down by
the letters OF a cynical. discourteous
manner The glad man attracts like
a lodestone. The churl repels.
A thousand proverbs, old and mod
ern, teach this lesson.
"A good word maketh the hear
glad" said Solomon a good many cen
turtles ago.
Laugh, and the world laughs will
you: weep, and you weep alone say'
a more modern wise one.
Tell your troubles to 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.
An old Scotch preacher with
crouch on looked out over his chill!
congregation and said
1T is sad to think that out Of thi
whole congregation only six will b.
saved He paused, and continued
"And | could name them, too"
II IL had been left to his congrega
ton to name the six, the preacher
would not have been among then
His name would have led the list q
those bound in the other direction
for there is no place on earth, or Il
heaven either, for the bitter an
vengeful man.
For grouchiness, churlshness' ]
immoral and damning.
Grouchiness is a habit Of mind
begins with grumbling and fault-hnt
ing and impotence with trihes tina
90 wrong. And, like Longfellow'
turnip behind the barn, it grows, an
grows, and grows.
The wife who begins by grumblin
a little at her husband develops tn
habit until she becomes a nag and
scold.
The man who begins by growlin
at his imaginary troubles ends in o'
coming a full-grown crouch, with
scowl on his face that even the dog
scare at.
The surest beginnings of the grouc
habit come by nursing imaginar
troubles, and nearly all troubles ar
imaginary.
Look back ten or twenty years In
troubles that worried you then wh'
became of them? Forgotten long ag
They weren't worth worrying abon
You know that now.
Neither are your troubles of toda'
SORROW may come to call, but
win not take him as a lodger'' say
a Turkish proyerb.
If the crouch habit is growing VIII
in you, pluck it out now.
Be genial and glad. Smile b
kind. Be cheerful. Cultivate happ
frame Of mind. Force. your face