Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — HARD WORK. [ARTICLE]

HARD WORK.

By Walt .Mason. Its hard to keep smiling when troubles are piling their weight on your neck till it’s sprained; it’s hard to keep grinning when others are winning the prizes for which you have strained. It’s hard to be cheery on days wet and dreary, when everything near you looks drowned; it’s hard to be sunny when all of your money is sunk in a hole in the ground. It s hard to keep laughing when wearily quaffing the flagon of grief to the dregs, it’s harder to

frolic when you have the colic, or gout at the end of your tegs. But how will it aid you, when woe has waylaid you, to rumble and grumble and swear? There’s nothing that’s healing in kicking the ceiling, or biting the rungs from a chair. It’s hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; net all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.