Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1912 — Look Trouble Squarely in Eye Is Rest [ARTICLE]

Look Trouble Squarely in Eye Is Rest

By Sarah G. Benedict

Why do we hear the lament, “Mv husband gets only $lB a week?” Does the one who utters it know that there are hundreds of wives who would think they were "motoring through life” if they had so much? My husband gets sl2 a week and I have three “kidlets,” four years, two years and two months old. Of course we have no steam heated flat and electric light, nor do we envy those who have. We are healthy and happy.' We have good, wholesome food and plenty of it. We pay sl2 a month rent, carry insurance

on our furniture and our lites. We have a gas bill of $2 or more each month. 7 We look our troubles in the face and laugh them away? We have iio grocery bills nor butcher bills to bother us, for we pay cash as we go. Some day ve expect to be better ofT in worldly goods. But till then well love, live and let live and. when “the shock of our awakening” comes we are still dreaming— and we “realize the conditions of life” we will lean stronger on “the Great Love” and think wealth, health and happiness, for as a man thinketh, so is he. v.