UNTROUBLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

UNTROUBLED.

A ♦ ❖ f ♦♦♦ *«* " They're troubled that ha e ,< 4 *** the world, and troubled that *♦* want it." , V This was an old Scotswoman s ' comment on life. Sho had a pound-note, and didn t know ♦♦♦ *** where it in safety. Her *♦* saying delighted her countryman, »♦» *' Thomas Carlyle. He knew how **' true it was. ♦> V That poor old wifie, with her »♦. V twenty shillings saved, was a »♦. V type 0 f all in whose souls the v •< cares of this world," choke V content, serenity, peace. *J» V She could not forget how she V had worried to put by her penV nies and three-penny-bits. She «$♦ believed that when she had thein «j» V saved she would be relieved of all «$♦ anxiety. But sho found it was X just as much trouble to know *** X what to do with her pound as it ♦> i had been to scrape it together. ♦> S, So it is with all who have ♦> X possessions, great or small, whether they are millionaires _or y poor old Scotswomen. Excepting y a happy and truly enviable few, y »♦« a very few, who " have a heart y *♦« for any fate," who can accumu- V ♦♦♦ late without worrying, and are y 1 not disturbed by fears of what. y mav happen to their property. V They go through life contented, V ♦♦♦ Serene, at peace. *♦* .♦ . ♦ - == >o<==>o<==>o-C=>o<==>o<==>o<=3