Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-10
CROUCH AND YOU
CROUCH ALONE?
It's Like the Story of aLaugh-
ing World When You Laugh
Through Life ~
THE STORY OF GRUMBLE TONE
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox


THE STORY OF GRUMBLE TONE
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There was boy named Grumble Tone
who ran away to sea,
I'm sick ofsthings on land" he said,
''as sick as I can be,
A life upon the bounding wave is just
the life for mel"
But thaHaeething ocean pillows failed
to stf ghlate his mirth,
For he did not like the vessel or the
dizzy, rolling berth
And he thought the sea was almost
as unpleasant as the earth.
He wandered into foreign lands; he
saw each wondrous sight,
But nothing that he heard or saw
seemed just exactly right,
And so he journeyed on and on, still
seeking for delight
He talked with kings and ladies grand,
he dlned in courts, they say,
But always found the people dull and
longed to get away
To search for that mysterious land
where he should want to stay
He wandered over all the world, his
hair grew white as snow;
He reached that final bourne at last
where all of us must go,
But never found the land he sought;
tue IettSOll WOulu you KNOW
The reason was that north or south,
where'er his steps were bent,
On land or sea, in court or hall, he
found but discomfort,
For he took his disposition with him,
everywhere he went.
Copyright, 1916, Star Coz
AS you go along through life, if you
find great majority of people you
encounter difficult to live with in So
cial relations, it might be well for you
to analyze your own disposition.
You will not like such an intima-
ton, yeti am sure it will be worth
while to entertain it. Look back
five years, to begin with. How
We're things with you five years
ago?
Were you having discordant ex-
periences in business or at home?
Did you feel out of sorts with sew
eral of your friends and wish you
could be in a more congenial at
mosphere?
Then come down another year =
how was it four years ago? No
doube you will be able to bring at
once to mind the most trying and
annoying people who marred your
comfort at that period.
Disagreeable personalities have
way of leaving mental photo
graph on sensitive mind plates.
Three and two years ago, being still
at closer range, you will easily
place the individuals in focus who
interefered with your enjoyment of
life.
Look at Home
Now if YOU are still finding diff
Guilty in adjusting yourself to your
environment, make up your mind
that some one besides all this varied
company you have known in five
years is in fault.
Look into your own disposition.
Are you not aggressive regarding
the manners and methods and ways
of others? And are you not always
sure that you are right and that
others are wrong?
Even il you do not tell them so,
if you are thinking 1t, your thoughts
are at work laying the underground
wires of discord.
How many people have you fallen
out with in five years?
How many have disillusioned
you?
1t tugs at your heartstrings when
YOU think how many and you say
to yourself that it is terrible to have
friends and acquaintances prove so
unworthy and unsatisfactory.
But remember, these same people
may all be thinking that it is YOU
who have proved unsatisfactory and
unworthy.
OF course YOU resent such an idea.
So would they resent your
thoughts of them, possibly, even
probably. That there have been un-