Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — ALL IN THE WAY YOU SEE IT [ARTICLE]

ALL IN THE WAY YOU SEE IT

Attitude Which Makes the Worst of a Situation Always Makes a Fail- ( ure of It, Says Writer. Any attitude which makes the worst of the situation makes a failure of It. Concentrating your mind on the hurt of a headache or the pain of a cut, fairly makes either one throb to order. Agitating yourself over how you are going to meet the payments on your talking machine takes all the music out of every record It plays, writes an optimist. If you must have your appendix removed next Saturday, why fill the days between now and Saturday with dismal forebodings of how you are going to feel when you wake up from the ether sleep? You will have to have the operation performed, anyway, and you might as well come to It with as much reserve strength and buoyancy as possible. A glad heart goes the whole day long and a sad one tires in a mile, as has been told with poetic fervor. But that does not make us work hard enough for a cheerful viewpoint, for the same determination to see the best of life which really makes the best in life a tangible thing to all of us.