Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Taking Things Easy. [ARTICLE]

Taking Things Easy.

There is no small art in taking tk&gs rensufi 7 ’ them, and making no parade Jour martyrdom. If Mtakiag a fuss and Bnfurtawe inany way abated IDe iUfl lat tab and Mint are beir to, there w<iH be MM slight excuse for the folly nd 2 but luuea we cuniiai aww nA tribulations of one kind or another, ting only aggravates them. Either let us be silent and endure, or take arms against our woes, and by ctmtendttng end them. In general he who mskes no ado is supposed to have no troubles of his own, or an organization so inferior that it is not jarred out of tube by the rough usage of fortune: to make the very worst of every trouble, big or little, from the fracture of a teacup to that of asknlbia considered by manyajiroof of great sensibility and depth character, while he who pursues the other course, who endures reverses, sights, injuries, pin-pricks of annoyance, agues of anxiety, physical and mental neuralgias, without reporting them to every passer and howling his grievances into the ears of every listener, is often spoken of as of fibre too coarse to feel acutely and suffer keenly. “It is his temperament,” we are told. “He takes nothing to heart” Some one, however, wittily advises us, “Never tell your misfortunes ; nobody likes to have unfortunate friends f but in spite of this warning many seem to think that disaster itself is a recommendation to fevor; that they deserve a bonus for serving as a target for fortune’s arrows; and they are not seldom acutely jealous lost some other should be deemed their superior in suffering. In the meantime everyone has a welcome for the person who has the good sense to take things easy. It is comfortable to be able to agonise over one’s own trials, to a mind at leisure from itself." The person who can go Without her dinner and her spring suit and not advertise the tact; wbo can lose her purse and keep her temper; who makes light of a heavy weight, and can wear a shoe that pinches without any one being the wiser; wbo does not magnify the splinter in her finger into a stick of timber, nor the mote in her neighbor’s eye into a beam: wbo swallows her bitters without leaving the taste in other people’s mouths; who can rive up her own way without giving up the ghost; wbo san nave a thorn in the flesh and not prick all over her friends with it—such a one surely carries a passport into the good graces of all resu-