Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — To Forget Misery. [ARTICLE]

To Forget Misery.

Some great writer has written, "The way to forget our miseries is to remember our mercies.” That is splendid in theory, but it is the hardest thing in the world to practice. When a person is perfectly miserable, it is impossible to forget it, and to go to work and try to think of some mercy that has been enjoyed at another time, is simply impossible. The misery of the present knocks all thoughts of the mercy of the past out of the mind of the miserable person, and misery gets in its work. It is well to try ana cultivate that idea of forgetting miseries, by remembering mercies, and may }<e it will work a little, but most people who try it will score a failure, and be more miserable than ever. The best way to forget miseries is to go fishing. If you get a trite you can forget the misery till you land the fish, and if yon don’t get a bite you can’t be any more miserable unless you fall out of the boat. If you get lots of bites it will be nip and tuck between misery and fun.— George Peck.

I» yon talk about your neighbors it is very much like blowing into a dust heap and filling vour own eyes with dirt. If you try to keep honest you will be too busy to know whether any one o!se is honestor not.