Thumor.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2075, 24 October 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Thumor.

i>o»'t Fret. It is easy fo "ay rlon's frrf. Almost anybody enn sty ir. But in vie* 7 of«t'ie numerous tr'.ah an-1 tribulations of life, it is not always so cis/ to jvfrain from complaint. Good people ttfl us that whatever i" U right. Vv r e wondor if they beliovo what th^y ara saying. We wondor if that good man who st&udd up bercne'.j' inhisthouiand-dollar pulpit, and secure in his ten thousand a year salary, and who locks at us, miserable sinners, through his gold bowed pye gla°^PB, would still stick to the beautiful idea that whatever is is right, it he should ba suddenly condomned to sweep the streets of his native city for a living, and herd with the wretched beggars who infest the slums whera hU righteous broadcloth has never daied to prno trate ! Wo wonder if he would still stick to the idea that everything ia for the beat, if ho should some day step into a hornet's nest, and about seven million hoinets should strike out for a gospel feist, and fill hia nether parmenta with their profane sting j and their blasphemous buzzing ! II may be that everything u for the beet.; but there arc times and seasons in every man's life when you can't mcke him believo it. When ovaiythino; r^ht, we are all converts to that doctrine. Wa can atnila serenely, and talk about th 9 wonderfu doings of a mysterious Providence ; but when the thunderbolt of Buffering And misfortune falls on us, we change our turo. Yes, we do. Still, it is no use to fret. Wo have to beav what fatoha3 in store for v?, and her etorv,-bou-se is crammed full of things nobody wauty. But our groc.!iinf>s do no good. We must take what comes to us. If all creition 'had gone into spasms (and it pretty nearly did) over the warm weather of August, it would not hf.ve brought the cooling breGzej to cheer the world one single moment sooner. So we say aa wa did in the beginning. Don't fret ! that ia, if you cju h°lp it. Fretting mskes gray hair 3, and wrinkles, and bad diction, and sallow akin and liver complaint, and a market for purgative pills. Let the world wag as it will, eyeing as you can't help it any way. B3 resigned. You can't alter destiny. If your w.fe scolds, let her scold, it doesn't hurt anything, and no doubt it relieves her mind. Cultivate the practice of repeating " the boy stood on the burning declr," or some other equally elevating piece of composition, while she 13 putting in her best work, and you won't notice whit blp cays after a little practice. If you have com3, try to ba patient, and remembar that Job had boila. IE you should have boils yourself, boar in mind the important physiological fact that they purify the blood, and let yourse'f '03 purified. If somebody chcr.tsyou in a horse trade, bear it meekly, a good many others have been there beforo you. If your mjther-in law wants to rule tb.3 roo3t, don't fret over it, but remember that if you had been Brigbam Young you would have bad a hundred mothers in latf. So you are not as bad ofl a3 you might have been. And if the time comc3 wheu troubles paat' in upon you, when protested note?, and mortgages falling due, and country cousins, &ad millinery bills, aud plumbera' account", and sewing-machine agents, and influenza, and twins, and a fall in stocks, and a hundred other trials equil'y as great f^ll upon yoa, brace up, young imu, aad don't fiel over it, and console yourself with the pleasing thought that it i 3 all in a life tiuio, and th&t tba tioao appoieted unto man id thrac-3core ani-ten years, and soon it will -\ll bn o"=r. Therefore, don't fret. — /Ft ckhj Nno Y0.1.i.