The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Il AlND l I1llN NNho { Yes, it's tresome to keep continually on the go unless you make up your mind to try and enjoy each little jour- ney by looking on It as a new adVeh- l ture.
 I am not s'new thoughter" to hurt, and vet there isn't any doubt but that ones mental attitude has much to do with one's happiness. I have learned tais much cut of the stress of the war days that man can do lot of worK~W Wlth- ous it's breaking knn down, if he will pu. worry aside.
 l Now here is (. t,p to busy men or wom- en. who have much mail to devour upon l their return to their office after an absence of days to find their desks clut- te, ed with letters, papers, magazines and books to be worked through, l used to face my pile with heavy heart, but now when sit down I say. "Pll bet l am going to have good time going through this lot and before know 1t ara. interested in it.:
 | As soon as found out how it worked in cleaning up my desk l began 10 try | it out on other things Now it's nara hv any stretch of imagination to be l ioyous when you have to get up before day. and wait for street car to get downtown to sit up on a stool and order breakfast which you don't have any ap- \ petite for and have it served by sleepy waiter, in order to catch an outgoihs train. But this has been my lot for many moons for during the war I was peri pathetic speaker.
 When I tell you that now can crawi out of bed before the light fat streaked the dawn, hot foot 1t down to the~sunc- tior. to await on the slow pleasure or 1 MT. Pevear, the man from whom the city | commission is driving dull care away by having arrested whenever they have noth- ing else to amuse them, and go around Highland avenue instead of on the Lake view in order to get out of cold wait under the unprotected station, and yes refrain from rushing into print with {" scatbing indi .slnept of the B. R., L. x F, you can gather that my viewpoint is wcrtr looking into by those who fret easily.
 l For nearly eight years I went up and down Alabama with Dr. A. F. Montague. at that time president of Howard col ] lege, and one of the most courtiy put restless men whom I have ever had the pleasure of companoning for any length of time. Oh, how he used to chafe when we reached a station to find the tram marked up late. He would pace up ana down the platform. I knew that after covering it several times he would approach me and say. Well, Brother 1 Barnett, what shall we do?" to be in variably told, "I have decided to wait for it."
 | But his impatience over delayed trains never for one moment caused him to lose patience with me as his travelling companion. You can say what you please but the acid test of friendship comes in having to be together day after day and week after week while journeying l toeet I knew a happy party of con- genial young women who went abroad and before month were barely on speak ing terms with one another Their friend ship had broken under the irritation of travel
 i At last one of the party, veritable Solomon in petticoats, gave judgment to this effect: Now you girls come here and make up, and the first one Nwho speaks to another before breakfast will be fired bodily out of this at present unhappy bunch.' She had learned that all the rows began in some catfish re- mark made while nerves were taut before coffee had been served It worked like i a charm, and they put sixsmonths of de- lighted travel together and all parted with an undying love for one another.
 
 It's strange how a chance remark can affect one. I remember friend of mine was to be married. and said he: My | wife and I have made this agreement. it makes no difference how much we may ! fuss during the day time when night comes it's all to be wiped out.~ He didn't Know. but it impressed because a young couple soon to be welded had un- consciously stumbled on the Bis.ical pre-