Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1881 — Secrecy. [ARTICLE]

Secrecy.

You have trouble, your feelings are injured, your husband is unkind, your wife frets, your friends do not treat you fairly, and things in general move unpleasantly. Well, what of it ? Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fire can be found and extinguished ; but when coals are scattered, you can't pick them up, Bury your sorrow. The place for sad anil disgusting things is under the ground,

A cut finger is not benefited by pulling off the plaster and exposing it to somebody’s eye. Charity oovereth a multitude of sins. Things thus covered are cured -without a scar; but, once published and confided to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble they may cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles are transient; and, when a sorrow is healed and passed, what a comfort it is to say, “ No one ever knew it till it was over I ”