Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1903 — Taking Life Too Seriously. [ARTICLE]

Taking Life Too Seriously.

Taking life too seriously is said to be an especially American failing. This may be true; but, judging from appearances, it would seem to be world-wide, for, go where you may, you will find the proportion of serious, not to say anxious, faces ten to one as compared with the merry or happy ones. If “the outer Is always the form and shadow of the inner” and if “the present is the fullness of the past and the herald of the future” (nnd how can we doubt It?), how many sad histories can he read In the faces of those we meet every day! The pity of it is, too, that the sadness is a self-woven garment, even ns Is the Joy with which it might be replaced. says: “Girls should be sunbeams not only to members of their own circle, but to everybody with whom they come In contuct. Every room they enter should be brighter for their presence.” Why shouldn’t all of be jsunbeams, boys as well ns girls, all along the way from twenty-five years and under to eightyfive years and over?