Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — Petty Worries. [ARTICLE]

Petty Worries.

What a blessed thing it is that we can forget. To-day’s troubles look large, but a week hence they will be forgotten and buried out of sight. Sayr one writer: “If you would keep a book and daily put down the things that worry you and see what becomes of them, it would be a benefit to you. ” You allow a thing to annoy you just as you allow a fly to settle on you and plague you; and you lose your temper, (or rather get it,) for when men are surcharged with temper they are said to have lost it, and justify yourselves for being thrown off your balance by causes which you do not traoe out. But if you would see what it was that threw you off your balance before breakfast and put it down in a little book, and follow it up and ascertain what becomes of it you would see what a fool you were in the matter. The art of forgetting is a blessed art, but the art of overlooking is quite as important. And if we should take time to write down the original progress and outcome of a few of our troubles, it would make us so ashamed of the fuss we make over them, that we should be glad to drop such things and bury them at once in eternal forgetfulness. Life is too short to be wore out in petty worries, frettings, hatred and vexation. Every lady who shops by mail should send 'five three-oent stamps for a copy of Strawbridge A Clothier's Quarterly. The present number contains 1,000 engravings, illustrating the new fashions, and four pages of new music. Strawbridge k Clothier, Eighth and Market streets, Philadelphia,