Connecticut western news., 1922-04-27
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
PieLied Pessimi.t or Honied op.imi..

Pickled Pessimist or Honied optimist
 Editor of the News: :H% sIs -a<1ez
 IfI were asked suddenly what was
 the difference between a apessimist andsan optimist, I should have to take off my hat, scratch my head and think some little time before 4 could answer. e AE8EtF3 I&SE
 There ain't any difference, to tell the truth, by which mean the pessi- mist covered with boils would feel
 just as bad as the optimist would if he was covered with lem; conditions
 quickly change pessimists into the most hilarious of optimists and vice versa. never yet saw a man look pleasant and crack beautiful smile,
 who was suffering with a jumping toothache. A man never looks happy when he is covered with boils,, one good big one would get even ! Dr, Frank Cranes goat. 4+s
 Not to put too fine a point on it-I should say the optimist is the man who has a hidden vault filled with the most gorgeous wines, whiskeys, gins, beers and such like, antidotes, for all of life's sorrows and ills and the pessimist fsa man who hasn't got any of these spiritual comforts. Job, patient and good as he was, couldn't stand it when the Lord let the devil get after him. I guess he couldn't take any comfort s@sitting down either. x haves lived long enough to note the truth of a good many things. If an optimist and a pessimist were cast into pit of fire, there probably would be no notise- able difference in theiT SdepS Sftme1t. A pessimist, can be as brave, patient ana eadppipE aeAng soHtimiats%f have nb&iced that s6ccessfui pc pfc are apt to have 8 very disagreeable habit of batting their heads--and stRking their own fur, so to&speak, ana while they, try not to reveal even al tenth part 6f the eSmpl en9 tstKey feel, theirnsmug gself f-spprQyal isa as oYSrpowering as a bottle, : pfr split pdGsk in an air-tight cIoset. For my oWA part l. would rather hear the tf4th frdha teEa iips z6F GKg tBbureat pic kledtnaesinist than tQ, BsteRs to, the bRimy piffie of the junket-brained hbhied optimist whose lips have never touched anything harder than al Ehpflcustafd h9their slivsaa | GHet average human being is neither pebsimisvf oF 6ptfhis6 a1Ithe S time.S Ehere is no getting away from the fact that thisP iss as shattered blood Soaked world and all humanity must suffer periods of deepest gloom at times I think the soldiers could say a few things about this optimistic stuff. The rgrirnmestt of $ all grim things is the story of the profteers. they who fattened on the blood of Americas young manhood-hush, let's finish up our discourse. ' There are practically few Fcon-, frmed pessimists or optimists, in the world. We just feel bad about some thing part of the time and part of the, time we don't. Days when we Hon't see much good anywhere, and whefs@Teven a<FattyaSyiApbuckle seems like real good sort of fellow and r1EwizhsaA .deadiys nightshade,  and poison hemlock were in bloom so that you ureouldesends himsa, nice bou- }quet of flowers! Today I had a blue spell. I wanted at Easter time to.sbe resurected from weakness and long illness%..,I went out. to look at. big flock of Wyandotte chickens and then down to the barn and looked at seven perfectly delightful little tan-colored Duroc pigs and swhen I returned, to the house the blues were all gone. Pessimism' is a transient mood dis pelled like going into a dark room and switching on the light. Real optimism is not the awful inanities of, the Pollyanna stuff but the read ing up of Faith toward the Light that enlightenment the world. + +'