Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-15
THIS AND THAT
BIZ CHARLES f. TR4CEWELL.

much to complain OF do very little
| complaining.
Just as nature tempers the wind 10
! shorn lamb as the happy old saying
has it, so the Creator seems to give
| to those who need cheerfulness most
the greatest amount of Ii.
Nor is it a forced happiness. Per
haps, in the watches of the night
feelings of sadness may creep over
them but that is only natural. Why,
even the healthlest feel that way!
Night is magnifier. No one ever
, ought to forget that. II you wake up
in the night with a sore throat, the
| chances are 10 to l that the throat
is not one-tenth as sore as it feels.
/ The dark acts as a strange sort or
| magnifying glass making pains hurt
more, worries worry more. faults
seem more heinous, i'll treatment re-
eeived dursfhg the day more unde-
| served. ss
The night. with it's thousand wings.
| covers up much of the brave spirit
of man. Under it's depressing infiu-
| ence even the bravest and healthiest
is likely to wake and Imagine all sorts
of things.
Night is the time for crime and
/ stimulants. and all these things are
reSOrted to by mankind in an effort
| to throw the tremendous magnifier
out of focus, and let in just one ray
| of sunshine.
We are creatures of light almost as
much as the plants, which eat and
! drink sunbeams. We flock into the
! sunshine even If we have to kid our.
selves into playing golf
| SO let no bed patient ever get the
| idea that because he wakes up in
| the night now and then and feels
sorry for himself that he is getting
worse.
/ Nonsense, When the dawn comes,
with it's sunshine, he will be growing
! better. But. as stated. it is not the
sick who suffer most from the night.
1t is the healthy man, the man With
no grievance, who wakes TO the worst
| night thoughts.
| 1t is astonishing how much trouble
q man can find who has no real trou-
bles. Some time ago / quoted in this
column the old saying. II am an old
man and have had many troubles
most of which never happened
There never was a truer thing than
| that. Thousands of troubles are suf-
1 fered every year that in reality sim.
| ply do not exist. We walk down the
street and pass a good friend whom
| We know is good friend
he is engrossed in a problem and
| does not see US. He passes without
| speaking. Do we give him credit for
being a friend? Not on your life. We
are insHlted. We brood over il. We
| make mighty trouble out of a thing
that does not exist
! Another astonishing thing Is the
| large number of men and women
| mopinR around over i'll health who
4 really are in very good health.
! They delight in talking about their
ills, as If there was some magic in it.
when. as matter of fact. IT is about
| the poorest sort of remedy
There is a common belief that WON.
en- indulge in this pastime more than
men. but it. is extremely doubtful
whether this is so
man with the rheumatic" usu.
ally talks about nothing else. What
to him are foreign affairs, the Nation.
art. music. architecture. inventions.
the state of man here and his hone
for the hereafter?
All he is Interested in is his big toe
| 1t got new kink in 1t Yesterday
morning and hurts like the devil. If
you want TO know how a big toe can
become an engrossing topic of con-
| Versation, visit this man and YOU will
| find out
- With most of US the world is not ALI
| wrong, our friends and rela lions are
not going back on us at all, and eslje-
clally our health is not falling.
| If you still feel down in the mouth.
go back and read the soldiers letter
again. Ii will do you good