GRUMBLERS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21685, 20 January 1936, Page 9

GRUMBLERS

TO Tin; KDITOII OF THE I'KKbs. Sir,—Reading the “Grumbler’s” letter this morning led me to count the items in his list—there were 30. in-

cluding “etc., etc,” at the end of it. The opening line of one of the hymns we sometimes use when we sit to “call up the spirits”—they do not come if they do not want to—occurs to me, “Count your blessings, name them one by one.” This is quite a good exercise when “A Man” feels “something very oppressive”; something not so serious as D.T.’s brought on“by “trying the spirits” too often. Listening to an old friend laying down the law (a habit not unpeculiar to us elderly folk) he though a questionnaire as to which was the most popular part of the paper might show up this page on top. This page, conducted as it rightly is, is the place for growls and grumbles. It is a good place, too, to learn to take the rough with the smooth; if you smile, the page will smile with you; if we are willing to “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest—that last word suggesting that nothing is such a “give away” as “table manners” as noted by “A Man” and “Another Sillv” writer this morning.—Yours, etc.. PETER TROLOVE. January 19, 1936. .