Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 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 practioe. When a person isi perfectly miserable, it is impossible td| forget it, and to go to work and try ,tc£ think of some mercy that has been enw ,joyed at another time, is simply imm possible. The misery of the presenfl knocks all thoughts of the mercy of thd past out of the mind of the miserabld person, and misery gets in its works It is well to try and cultivate that ided of forgetting miseries, by rememberind meroies, and may be it will work a Um tie, bnt most people who try it will score a failure, and be more miserable then ever. The beet way to forgefl miseries kto go fiahfkg. If yen get d bite yo« can forget the misery till yod land the fish, and if you don’t get d bite yen can’t be anymore misetoWd nnlesa yon fall ont of the boat. If yod get lots of bites it will be nip and tuefl between misery and tvtn.—QeomM Pack. 1 Potato Balls.— -Poor large meald potatoes, cold; mask them m a pad with two table-spoonfuls of melted butter, a pinch of salt, a little peppeid one table-spoonful of cream and thd beaten yelk of one egg; rub it together for about five minutes, or until very! smooth; shape the mixture into balM about the sue of a walnut or smajji rolls, dip them into an egg well beatoa* and then into the finest sifted breigiw crumbs: fry them in boiling lard. A