The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-07-19
It's You.


If yon want to live in the kind of a Town
Like the Kind Of o town you Ike.
lon nccdn't Slip your clothes ia a grin
And start On a long long hike.
Non u only find What you lufi behind
For thcra'S noihine that's really new:
Its a knock 1T yourself when You l;nocl,
yOur town
1t isn't thctown it's you.
We read the above in newspaper not
long since, and it sci us TO IllilOsophizing
q bit about everybody in general -onf
selves Ia particular Tor thcn,S a good
deal OF truth IN tic little piece Of dog
gopl
If nothing seems to he going right with
Us II this person amioys us aud that one
gets on our nerves; if Svc simply uan not
get along with those around rs. and
everybody seems giouuhy aud ont of
sorts b is tino We are looking Ia our-
selves h bit and finding ont Just what is
the matter. Nmcly-niue eases out Of fl
hundred We will find the trouble within
ourselves. and no matter whcrc wc 20 We
VIII lind conditions just the same. lot We
can ium away irDni ourselves. II we are
discontinued, unhappy aud mloyed IN IA
cottage Il will he The sainc IN a mansion.
for contcnlmcnl AMI Happiness come nat
from outward things, hut dwell within
our hearts aud minds, aud if 1t isn't here,
M amount Of eAtihs treasures viii put il
there, Tor 1t is a soul quality,
We know OF Il women who was very
dissatisfied with her environment. and
kept changing hcr boarding place from
one house Ia auoilior, always finding
something wrong Ia one place she dis
liked The person IN charge; la another
she did not like the quests in another.
| tile guests dislik0d hcr, aud she kept her,
sell ~ perfect stew, constantly chang
ing, seeking coutcutnicnt aud happiness
| and finding nothing, hut Dissatisfaction,
seeming uukindncSs, aud always "A desire.
to move ON She vas trying Ia run away
| from herself. you see aud il couldn't be-
done. one day Slio sat down and took
counsel With liursri She reasoned that
everybody couldn't be- disag1ecahle, every
place couldn't he altogether uulovuly.
AMI since ihlS was 50, size decided the
trouble must lie within hcrsen aud shs
sci about remcdying the matter She
tonnd that u she looked for the best in
people, they unusually saw the hes, in her
and came 10 like her; that il She began
| To look Tor The attractive qualities In the
boarding house, tho littlc, Trivial details
usually harasScd her seemed Ia fade
away, and before long SlIa began 10 .rnw
happy and cpnlentcd and became a VERY
useful Women
II doesn't DO 70 try To run away from
ourselves. We may 20 To Tho ends oil the
earth and We will ind The same discon-
tent, iriiiaeiii,y aud unrest The thing
to do IS 10 quietly take an inventory of
onr traits and habits decide ON the I'M
pleasant ones We wish 90 eliminate. the
happier ones We wish 10 cultivate. and set
steadily and dctermincdly about the work
of reformation
yor don't like yonr town, thore'r 40
use 10 PACK Your grip; ii you don't like
! your friends and your family, there's no
use TO seek new ones elsewhere; yon will
lind human nature the San,c wherever
Aon 80 I Isn't the townnor Your friends
nor your fiimily, ITS you, and the sooner
yon tind i out, The hc,,e: Exchange.