Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — Keep it to Yourself. [ARTICLE]

Keep it to Yourself.

You have trouble—vow feelings are injured, your husband is unkind, your wife frets, your home is not pleasant, your friends do not treat you fairly, and things in general move unpleasantly. Well, what of itP Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fire can be found and extinguished; but when the coals are scattered, who can pick them upP Bury your sorrow. The place for sad and disgusting things is under the ground. A cut finger is not benefited by pulling off the plaster and exposing it to somebody’s eye. Charity covereth a multitude of sins. Things thus covered are cured without a scar; but once published and confided to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble they may cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles are transient, and when a sorrow is healed and passed, what a comfort it is to say: “ No one ever knew it until it was all over.”—N. W. Christian Advocate. f —There is a story told of a blunt old sea-captain who was noted for his extreme personal plainness. Being present at a party, he had taken no part in the dance, ashis hostess had some difficulty in providing him with a partner. At last she led up to him a prim and aged spinister, at the same time whispering a few words of apology in his e&r? “Oh, you needn’t make any apology, madam,” said he, with alacrity. “ Any old thing is good enough for me.” —The mystery that a Rockland boy desires the advancing years to unfold is why he is always rushed off to bed when he is not in any degree sleepy, and made to get up when he is so sleepy that it seems as if Ms whole system was clogged pitch.—RocfehMd GmHer.