Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1902 — Might Have Been Worse. [ARTICLE]

Might Have Been Worse.

A disposition to look on the bright side of things spares its possessor much unhappiness, but when the cheerfulness rests upon reasoning so unsound as Mr. Dolan’s there must some time come an awakening. Mr. Dolan had lost his position at the mill, owing to his persistent habit of tardiness, and In consequence his wife was “low in her molnd.” But Dolan was as cheerful as ever. “Now don’t be losin’ your smolles, Norah, darlin’,” he said, coaxingly. “O’m out o’ wun-k, to be sure, but ’twas only a dollar a day Oi got. If Ol’d been gettln’ two dollars our loss would be twoice as bad. Kape that in moind, darlin’, and not be complainin’.”