GOOD HUMOR.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1923, Page 4

GOOD HUMOR.

■ • l"nitre, you believe." writes Arnold it lllrll. “shut ,-olilode is t!;.* b; >1 (il ble. and have the money lo buy a mountain top. and lb" slid! to do .Million ii wa.-hiiig-iip, fabricate your own food au-l ctotiios, and extract your own teeth. ;.oii will not malic ti:- b...t ni life without making tin- l.t-i oi your relations willi’ your foliow-orea-tiir -s. X-a-v the subject of liuinan relaiems .a i ill iueli-.e —a ml growing every y.-a r—-but two main prineiples run through 11. like great man-:. . ." I lie first, lie lolls u is :!».;* -ml;, b,v pn! tmo: c.u-sei- ( - i uih into the place of "ii! 1 neigh l -,r van >■...• bop" l" avoid iiiiin-cc'-ary frirt: -n. “Nt-ar!/. all cru.dly in human i lation ■’:>ip-,," he reiniiuls ii-. -'springs ironi im-k of iuagina I ion" ; the te d of O'l-aillO im-igi: nlioo. mu . li.-i, .. lie ; to ••> !'!.n i ourselvi s. Tile’ di liberate cull ie :l . jo,. „l tin gill "I potting yourself i" the otbei' person'., plane is the I -■ "i v> dom in liiiiiiiin rebiiu-ns. and tin iomi dal ion of permanent good Inimor." In. goes one. "The practice of ibis gift will change the very iktvor of life. Its inlltience on the other por-ou i- magical— be feels at once that be i being iimlei stood ; lint, ils iulliieme on oneself is almost equally lnagicid. AVim-i; you understand a poison. realise hicircumstances, desires, didi. ultieo yon appreciate him. . . lon am id th" citadel before lie knows where be is. and be feels glad in have you there. His life i- sweetened, and to i< yours.” The author hits on a homo truth when he calls the British "a nation of secret worriers"—though a fair number worry quite openly! “Wor.ry sits on the countenance of noarly every seas ni ticket holder i-i -.lu- morning train." be says, “and in the evening train. Yon see il in ihr street, ill offices and reMaurants, and you can j even meet ii in i lie country lanes. I Tlie habit of worrv infallildv leaves iis ! murk, and the mark is there for ad! to not ice. . . . "There is worrying and worrying, and distinction* must be made between t,!ie different kinds of this affliction. . . If (be cause and the coiiselii'.'iices are alike entirely beyond your •onirol and outside your responsibility j o worry over tlie affair i-, childish, md serves no end wha lever. You invo to accept it. (Uill’er it, and ebeerull.v make the best of it. . . . “On lb.-- other liaml, if the trouble s duo to some act or omission of your iwn. and the consequences are to any j ‘\-tent avoidable or remediable by I ■ourself, then a generous amount of) rorr.v. is no misplaced, and too much ■ orrying is better than too lit!e. For In- it, remembered bat individuals exist who never orry. and whose ability not to worry ( due merely to a complete absence of I he sense of responsibility and the anso of danger. Those individuals ave made a vice out of a virtue."