Evening star., 1924-12-31
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Do not worry any moro than you
This is the third of life's hardest
lessons, to learn the difference be-
tween worrying as much as ono has
to. and not worrying a. bit more.
DO not worry" the books on optf-
nfsm tell you, but what Is the use Of
telling one that?
Worry is part and parcel Of our life.
One might as we'll tell the eyes not to
see, or the ears not to hear, as to ad-
wise man not to worry at all.
1t Is fine advice, no doubt but, like
so much fine advice, is impossible of
carrying out.
But to tell a man not to worry any
more than he has to-well, that Is de-
cidedly a different thing.
There you have something practi-
cal, at the same time carrying enough
of theory to be pleasing to this COM
plex brain Of ours, which must have
It's mixture of theory with practice
at all hazards
II should worry" said the slang
phrase, meaning just the opposite, of
course, In that happy freedom of the
idiomatic.
Well, we must worry, now and then,
but 1t Is up to each one of us to see
to 1t that we worry not a jot more
than is necessary. Each one will
have to decide for himself or herself
just what the fine point is, where the
line of the necessary ends and where
the line of the unnecessary begins.
X X y
Mothers worry about their children
children worry about their lessons
fathers worry about their business
girls worry about their beaus, young
men worry about their sweethearts
dogs worry about their fieas and cats
about their dinner.
Every created thing seems to be
worrying about something or other
so universal is this bad practice. II
is the unnecessary worry that causes
| most of the trouble. Requisite worry
has its place. II real problem
arises, one having doubt connected
with it, and demanding serious brain
work in it's solving. plenty of honest
worry Is the very thing needed, for
out Of it will come the solution, when
the worry will be forgot
The man who goes home with a
genuine business worry often faces
the problem like man, when he
ought to be asleep, and by the morn
ing has come to a satisfactory con-
clusion concerning the matter. Such
worry as this. is what l call neces-
sary worry.
There are many situations in life
that call for such mental trouble. To
advise a man with a vexing problem
mot to worry is like telling a hun
CRY tomcat not to eat the piece OF
meat placed before him.
You are just wasting your time, no
matter how fine your words or how
prettily they are placed on paper or
how striking the binding of the book
that contains them.
The letters upon the back OF the
volume may be of the brightest gold
and still your book will be as sound
ing brass, and the reader will &c
away with more worries than he had
before.
Have you not added to his woes
when you tell him in so many words
| that there is no occasion for worry
when all the time he knows you are
a liar?
One of the great faults OF this sor,
of writing-I hope l steer clear of IL
is that the writer gets an enthus-
iasm for an idea, and works it to a
fraZzle. He get the 'fbig idea" that
worry is wrong-which it is-and
proceeds to clear the decks for ac-
! ton.
Worry Is all wrong" he blurts out
| then goes on to elaborate the theme
| pointing out to all and sundry that
| the reader is a dolt, a lunkhead and
a few other slight critters, II he does
not instantly agree with the main
proposition and all its corallaries,
| The latter inculcate the supposed
knowledge that worry, in all it's
forms, in whatsoever shape the mon
ster appears, should be blotted out