"Scare Up Fun!"

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 5, 2 November 1925, Page 8

"Scare Up Fun!"

T OVERHEARD a father say to his lugubrious young son, complaining of the bofcsoinc clay, "Forget your woes, and scare up fun.” To “scare up fun,” a pungent phrase, it really docs appeal to me. Apply it in a score of ways, its strength of wisdom you will sec. Suppose that life begins to pall, begins to make you fume and fret (at times this state attacks us all), then, brothers, let us not forget to scare up fun. Yes, scare up fun: it's lurking for us everywhere. I know for fact it can be done. I found some fun beneath a chair! There’s fun in everything we do, in thoughts we think, in . sights we sec. even in pots of office glue; just think awhile, then you’ll agree. Slang phrases often jar and grate, but some arc vital, strong, and wise. To “scare up fun” has strength and weight, and makes one’s drooping spirits rise !