DON'T WORRY

New Zealand Tablet, 29 October 1908, Page 38

DON'T WORRY

Why do you wear a harassed and troubled look? Are you really in trouble, or are you allowing the little worries of life to grind furrows in your face? Take a glance at yourself in the mirror nnd reform — that is, reshape your face into th« lines - and comfort and good cheer which it ought to wear. Take i.n ~ honest inventory of your troubles, and decide whether or not they are really worth advertising in your countenance. It may seem a little thing to you whether or not you wear a smiling face, but it is not a little thing. A serene look advises lh« tired and troubled men and women whom you meet that there is peace and joy in at least one heart. And there -may b« among them some who have begun to doubt if peace and joy exist at al£ ' A merry heart doeth good like a rhedicine.' Many a poor, soul has laid down her life in fear of the miseries that never happened and the hard luck that never materialised. The sweetness of every day _ existence is totally destroyed by an ticipating the dreadful things that are not likely to occur. You can overcome this inclination to worry pnd fret if you will pull yourself together instead of -swinging with the current of every foolish thought. When you are an old woman, and you realise that your days are few and limited, you. will wish that you had invested your fortune of months and years so that it would have brought you steady income of happiness and content.