Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — GOOD IN POVERTY [ARTICLE]

GOOD IN POVERTY

Mr. Goslington Does a Little , Philosophizing. Sees Much Benefit In the Necessity to Work and Also in the Worry Which Falls to the Lot of Majority of Mankind. “Glimmerby, my friend Glimmerby," said Mr. Goellngton, “propounds the theory that both poverty and worry are conducive to longevity; and I think there is something in that. 1 am not so sure about the worry, and yet I think even that may be true. 1 can see, for Instance, that Hainan worried hard enough he would keep himself lean and so escape the ills and Inconveniences attendant upon obesity; but that poverty tends to lengthen life I have no doubt whatever. “The man who is poor, as we most of us are, has to work for a living. Surely it Is in work that we are most blessed; and If we have work to de in which we are interested, that appeals to us, then are we fortunate Indeed; we find a pleasure tn labor and a joy In accomplishment; and it makes me smile to think how in such work we forget our worries entirely. “So we don’t really need to consider whether worry Is a life prolonger or not; all we want to lengthen our days is to be poor, poor’ enough so that we have to work and keep plugging; but I do wonder that Glimmerby did not mention along with poverty and worry, as among the things that might tend to prolong life, our physical ailments. “Some years ago a friend of mine began to lose weight and he kept on in that way until he had lost 25 pounds. Then he consulted a doctors It was something that could be checked, controlled and perhaps entirely cured if the patient would follow faithfully the prescribed treatment; and then he was told that the general benefits he would derive from the treatment were such that his life might be prolonged to a greater limit than it would have reached if he had never had this ailment at all. “I might add that this friend has now regained several of his lost pounds, he is feeling very chipper and cheerful and he fully expects to live to be a very old man. “The fact is that many things that we may look at, when they come upon us, as drawbacks are In reality blessings in disguise.”