Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-11
The Fortune
We Make
By FORTUNE FREE.

Our attitude toward events often
causes the events that happen to us, ="
once remarked Lord Beaconsfeld. In
other words, the way m which you
take" things has an Offset upon the
things you will have to take. You
will make them better or worse.
was reminded of those words by
what happened to a man the other
day He had AN awful day of it.
he declared Living in a boarding
house, he forgot to wind up the alarm
clock that wakes him in the morning.
Annoying. Very! Waking late and
trying to make up lost time, he cut
himself severely while shaving. More
annoying still Hurrying downstairs,
he met one of the dodgers who
laughed at him in an irritating man
ner." He had three minutes in which
to eat his breakfast and he spent them
in scolding the landlady for setting
such a scandalou> meal before him.
With the landladys threat that she
would certainly bring an action for
Islander against him ringing in his
ears, he rushed off to the station and
missing his train, spent the interval
he had to wait in calling on the sta
ton master and complaining that the
management of the station was scan
dalous.
He was so busy in his work that
he only caught the next train by the
skin of his teeth Frightfully an
noying When the conductor de
manded his ticket three stations fur
Their down, and he had not got one,
he addressed a short lecture to the
other occupants of the car. He was
getting annoyed-really annoyed. He
was arrested and fined for hitting a
passenger who told him he ought to
be ashamed of himself.
All those troubles sprang from the
irst-the alarm not going off was the
egg out of which they were all
Matched. If his attitude" to that
event had been right-if he had taken
it calmly-none of the other troubles
would have come upon him. How
you take" things certainly has
most important effect upon the things
you will have to take
Burton, the traveller, found the pro-
verb, Troubles never come singly,"
popular among all the eastern people
he visited. Bad luck" came in
streaks. He mentioned the fact to
a Persian astrologer renowned for his
wisdom, and the astrologer told him
that it was perfectly true-troubles
came in focks.
THE reason is simple" he said.
Human beings in wonderful degree
draw on themselves the things that
happen to them. The happy person
attracts to himself or herself happi-
ness. The unhappy person does just
the opposite The troubled person
gathers troubles to himself With the
healthy person all food agrees. With
the unhealthy person all foods save
one or two disagree. Therefore, if
you would avoid troubles when it first
arrives, shake it from you and care
fully attune your soul to attract
happy fortune. This is wisdom, my
SON.
His theory amounts to this, that
person makes his luck'-that as he
is "attuned' to good things or bad, so
they come.
Probably, if one turns ones eyes
on 'how things happen" one will find
good deal to bear out the truth of
the astrologer's theory. Haven't you
noticed how, if something happens to
mar ones exceptionally good temper,
other things follow of the same kind:
A piece Of good news in the morning
and the day will be fortunate. We
are prepared-predisposed-one way
or the other, and we influence what is
to come so that it is good or bad.