Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — Potty Worrles. [ARTICLE]

Potty Worrles.

What a blessed thing it is that we can forget! Today’s troubles look large, but « week hence they will be forgotten and buried out of sight Bays one writer: If you keep a book, and daily put down the things that worry you, ana see what becomes of them, it would be a benefit to you. You allow a thing to annoy you just as you allow a fly tosstoe on you and plague; and you lose your temper (or rather get it). for when men are surcharged wita temper they are said to have loot it; aad you justify yourselves tor being thrown off your balance by causes <wh ch you do not trace out. But if you would s»« what it was that threw you off ynur balance bet fore breakfast, and put it down in a little would see what a riool you were la th* matter. The art of forgetting is aftfrssm iSSLS 6 Sd U q tS time to write down the origin, progress and outcome of a tew of our troubles, would make us so ashamed of the ftus wc make over them, that we should be glad to drop such things, and bury them Stance te eternal forgetfulness. Life to too short to be worn out in petty worries,