THE GRUMBLER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5115, 24 November 1894, Page 2

THE GRUMBLER.

The dictionary tells uu that the grumbler is a discontented, ill-natured, Burly fellow. Tho man who cultivates an unhappy spirit is bad; the chronic complaint is worse; the ill-natured grumbler is the worst. What a hcs j of gratablere there would be if they all could be brought together ! Could

• tbev be provided b country in which to - colonise, they would have it all to themselves. Nobody would oare to live in such company.- A grumbler ie always selfish, . and usually lazy. He ■ia never ready to g.ve, is B>\vr»ys ready to receive, but is without appreciation of gratitude. He - is .unhappy himself , and hja misery is in- ■ ; creasgd by any inability lio, mako'othei'B as

. wrctahed a* himself. It requires but a '-small in vestment of good' sense as capital

to 'go into the bnsinets of grumbling. . i Indeed, a grumbler is '. a witness against > x 3\lbnd&]f as to hia poverty of* 'mental calibre. ]'- There ia a fable that once npon a time a t-?'*ffßP n wftS being dragged along a heavy •V.fcoad pj -a team of oxan. The axle-tree groased and oreaked terribly, until even the ozeh became impatient, and turned rpand and said to the wheels, Halloo, theie J why do you make so much noiee? We bear all ,thp labour, and we, not yon, -should cry, 01U." Grumbling ia a disease. A sure sign of ita development is a dis- ' position to see tfee ills, and a blindness to

the blesiinßß ot life. The best prescription for the enre of this mental and spiritual disorder is a blockade against all thoughts of real and imaginary evilp, and a wideopen port to a remembrance of mercies past and present.— The Family Doctor.