Quit Your Worrying!

ng of another's work, or something he had done: "He ought to be in a better business." So, in every case, can it be said of the worrier: He's in a bad business; a business that ought not to exist,

uphill work. And he might laugh, and sing, and be cheery while he was doing it. But in the case of the worrier he not only pushes the rock up the hill, but h

ty is so self-evident to an intelligent mind. Yet, because so many otherwise intelligent and good people are cursed by it, it seems n

l and beneficial. It is a proof either that your mind bosses you,-in other words, that you cannot direct it to think upon something worth while, that it is absolutely untrained, undisciplined,

ind can always be occupied if one so wills. No human being is so constituted that nothing appeals to him or interests him, so ev

ife. If I awoke during the night, I turned on the light and picked up a book and forced my thought into another channel. If the objectionable thoughts obtruded during the day I did one of many things, as, for instance, turned to my work with a frenzy of ab

occupation that was to keep out the thoughts of worry. A Nick Carter detective story was as good as a Browning poem, and sometimes better; a cheap and absurd show than an uplifting lecture or concert. How much better it would have been could I have had my mind so thoroughly under control-and this control can surely be gained by any and every man, woman, and child that lives,-that, when worrying thoughts obtruded, I could have said immediately and with authoritative power: I will to think on this thing, or that, or the other. The result would have been an immed

hey will. It is simply a question of wanting to be free earnestly enough to work for freedom. Is freedom from worry worth while; is it worth struggling for? To me, it is one of the gr

o the tangle instead of releasing it; worry beclouds the mind, prevents sane judgment, confuses the reason, and leads one to decisions that never ought to be made, and so to an uncertainty, as vexatious and irritating as is the original problem to be solved. If the worry pointed a way out of the diff

orry is the parent of nagging. Nagging is worry put into words,-the verbal expression of worry about or towards individuals. The mother wishes her son would do differently. Can the boy's actions be changed? Then go to work to change them-not to worry over them. If they cannot be changed, why nag him, why irritate him, why make a bad matter worse? Nagging, like

ged her; many a husband has "gone on a tear" because he could not face his wife's "worry put into words," even though no one would attempt to deny tha

rom it. Everybody who has any perception sees this, agrees to it, confesses it. Then why still persist in it? Yet they do, and at the same time expect to be regarded as intelligent, s

as spotless as the parlor; the sink must be so immaculate that you could eat from it, if necessary; the children must always be in their best bibs and tuckers and appear as Little Lord Fauntleroys; and

h rag, duster and dustpan. If she attempts it, as she does sometimes-she overworks, and a breakdown is the result. What, then, is the sensible, the reasonable, the only thing she should do? Sit down and "worry" over her "untidy house"; lament that "the stairs have not been swept since day before yesterday; that the parlor was not duste

ring irritation in husband, children and friends. Is any house that was ever built worth the alienation of dear ones? What is the dust,

r own health and become an irritable neurasthenic or hypo

ir lot with that of some one more fortunately situated than they. She has a husband who earns more money than does hers; such an one has a la

calm, full, direct recognition of unpleasant facts. Look them squarely in the face. Don't dodge them, don't deny them. Know them, understand them, then defy them to destroy your happiness. If you can't dust your house daily, dust it thrice a week, or twice, or once, and determine that you will be h

ative value of things. A hundred dollar bill is of greater value than one for five dollars, and the life of your baby more important than the value of the hundred dollar bill. Put first things first, and secondly, and tertiary, and quarternary things in their relative positions. Your health and self-poise should come first, the comfort and happiness o

arn that there is a dirtiness that is far worse than dirt in a house-a dirtiness, a muddiness of mind, a cluttering of thought, a making of the mind a harboring place for wrong thoughts. Not wrong in the sense of immoral or wicked, as these words are generally used, but wrong in this sense, viz., that reason shows the folly, the inutility, the impracticability of attempting to bring up sane, healthy, happy, normal children in a household controlled by the idea that spotl

place." Far better have dust, dirt, in your house, dirt on your child's hands, f