THE GAME OF LIVING.

Shannon News, 25 October 1929, Page 1

THE GAME OF LIVING.

MAKE THE BEST OF THINGS. Are you enough of a good' sport to feel when things go wrong as if you had been challenged to a contest? Or do you go to pieces—.suddenly relax like a spoilt child —and leave the task of setting things right again to someone else ? Some people —and they are perhaps most tiresome adopt a halfway attitude. They do. not exactly go to pieces, but they become ‘resigned.' A writer gives excellent advice to the woman who has found that things have gone wrong. “Don’t sit- down with hands folded and eyes turned ceiliiigwanls, “ she counsels. “You’ll

probably only see cobwebs, or got a crick in yo'ur neck; anyhow, 3*oll won't get any help, murmuring in a low plaintive voice, ‘1 must not complain, I must bear patiently.' ”

The -woman who puts up) the best light when things go 'wrong is the woman who is really intensely interested in living. Her joy in life conies not only from the chances for amusement or diversion or the enjoyment ot friends, family, society and other blessings—but from au actual - and often very'keen interest in the mere game ot living. Like a good card-player, she is eager to make the best of her hand whatever sort of cards are dealt to her.

So when tihc nursemaid loaves, or the children got the mensels, or tucks are taken in the family income, when her own hair turns grey or tho wcathci turns the cream sour —she spends precious little time complaining, but sets to work to bring things back again to normal. ' '