Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-02

I'm so blue / just don't care three
cents whether school keeps or not
said Marion. coming in the other even
ing af.er a days work in the big office
building down town. Il could cry and
cry and cry she added miserably. as
she siumped down on the davenport in
the living room.
The Snowy Haired Woman looked
up from her knitting and sa quietly:
well 60 ahead. child, and cry. That's
the very best way sometimes 10 rid
ones self OF the blues But pray
my dear. what are you blue abOut?'
"Oh. everything answered Marion
laconically whats the use. any
way?' she Queried. a dark frown be-
tween her brows.
The Snowy Haired Woman laid
down her knitting and rocked gently
70 and fro.
Il wonder" she said finally. how
many hundreds Of other persons in
this world today have asked-the same
question, some. no dOub., bitterly.
some despondently. some hopelessly?
DO you suppose for one instan'. Mar
ion. that you are the only person who
ever gets the blues? Not much. you
are't We all become discouraged at
times. There come days In every
ones life when everything seems TO
20 dead wrong You see no good in
ANYTHING or anybody You become oh
sossed with a sense of wrong doing
against YOU. In fact everything and
everybody seems TO be against YOU,
YOU bitterly tell yourse1 How easy
II is then for Discouragement TO seep
in and. like the Jackal. ~ Is. feed IT.
self upon the hopes and illusions anc
sunshine around you. until you seem
10 be in a ver.tablC sea OF overwhelm'
ing darkness and despair And when
things reach that state IL IS wen 10
sfop and consider a moment and look
the day sQuarely in the face and you
will more than likely find that the
world looks blue simply because you
have on blue glasses instead OF clear,
far-gpeing ones. Nine times out OF
ten the things over which we worry
and fret and become DISCOURAGED
either never existed or else they
soon become molehills on yesterday
horizon. .
"Howcvcr true that may be- contln-
url the Snowy Haired Woman, resum
inc her knitting, "the coil iect remains
that Nc an DO become discouraged and
arc prone TO despair AMI WAIVER m or
ronfdoncc and courags. nscouragement
il a battering ram a2ains. hope ana
health. A physician tho ctaer day was
heard 10 remark that at no time IS |
nerson's vitality and power 10 do at |
lower ebh than when he Is discouraged. /
II il impossible. then. for him to accom-
rDsb ANYTHING worth while. Disconr- /
acemcut Is one Of the evils when N"s
held the world in bondage for many /
centuries Il has. perhaps. done morn 10 I
aemoiish visions which could have revo- |
intiouired the world and has perhaps
dona more % hinder the Workmanship 81
mankind than any other III or cvil that
Pandora let free from her cursed box.
"W1v. my dear. do you know that
rtatistics claim that more than one mi.
hon persons in the entire civilized world
commit suicide zach year, making an
average Of over five hundred persons
dav who are guilty of self-destruction
Think Of it, And why. You ask sim
piv because they were oyerpowered by
a sense Of encouragement which brought
with a. hopelessness and darkness 20
which thew yielded instead of conquer
ing. How terribly and sadly mistaken
those persons are who look TO suicide
as the only way out Of their troubles
AS an old Cvakeress I know said TO a
nephew Of hers who had failed in bust
ness and who suggested suicide as