Show P r f The Tl le Secret s ecret of 0 f Happiness H i Have Keep e Busy S Time I Sto So 10 You Be Wi Unhappy Not By B Y Dorothy D h y Dix D IX J I w A ft 0 lolI I fg t V t kI a lJ 11 7 I If I you yo have no occupation the te devils of discontent will wl have plenty p ent of opportunity to d 0 o their work well wel HE fifth secret ret of happiness Is IsTO IsTO isTO T THE TO KEEP SO BUSY YOU WILL NOT HAVE TIME TO KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE AE HAPPY OR NOT The best way to get gt rid of trouble Is Isto Isto Isto to crowd U It off the map You cant do two things I at of once and ad It is physically impossible thing to fret tet and whine over the disappointments of the past if i you are hustling after something that looks good to you for the future It I takes leisure In which to be b miser miserable miserable miserable able and that Is the reason reson why women as a class are so 80 much moro mom mor melancholy and take so much more doleful a view I of or existence nce s than men do The he majority of women have lots of time In which to sit up with their fingers on their pulses I counting their heart beats beat and searching their systems for symptoms of f unhappiness peas ness And they always S find them Men on the other hand are mostly kept on the Jump making maing a living and they a minute to spare spa to consid consider er whether they the are as Joyful as aa they the expected to be bl or not ot and the result Is that they are cheerful under creditable circumstances Why the Men Recuperate It I Js is observable that In cases of be bereavement bereavement bereavement in a Q family the man inn m n recuperate recuperate rate much more quickly from the loss of ofa ofa ofa a loved one than the tb women do This Thi Is not because the men are less devoted than the women but because the tho edgen exigencies des cies cl s of life lite thrust natures great panacea occupation on the men whereas the te women are left lef Idle with nothing to do but brood over their sorrow thor The Th lesson of all al of this Is I to get busy If you ou would be happy If I you ou are a man who has ha always fought an unequal battle batte with wih fate and has ha gone down dow in defeat dont 1st it t your yourself your yourself self sel sink into a querulous pessimistic knocker Get up and try tr something else els and work so hard at It that you wont have hae time to recall recal the t e blows that you have received nor even to be con conscious conscious conscious I of the wounds you may be get getting getting ting I If you are an old man too feeble to work dont sit down and bemoan bemo n the tha days of your youth and make yourself a burden to everybody around you by your lamentations over how much h better things used to be than they aro are now Find some Interest in life Ce Take up some hobby and ride it so hard and fast tast that th the days will go by like Ike a flash fash and you will wi be he gay and cheerful company before you know it itI If I you are a young oung girl discontented and fretful because you cant have the pretty clothes cotes and go to the parties partes that richer girls enjoy enjo cut out ou the whining and go so to rk and make the money that you want The whole field of labor laboris is open to you and you will wi find that there is a lot more fun tun In making the money to t buy a new gown than there Is IsI I wearing It i If you are a married woman and are I eating eUng your heart hart out because matri matrimony matr matrimony mony has ha proven a failure and your hus husband husband husband band a disappointment disappointment Just try tr the work cure for it for a while Turn Tur off of your ser servant servant vant and I roll roU up your sleeves and get et busy vat with wih the kitchen stove and n ld the broom If I you will observe It I is the tha women who live lve In apartment hotels and keep kep maids who find out most frequently that their husbands are common soul soulless soulI soulless I less material creatures who are ae Incapable ble of ot appreciating them as do some longhaired aesthetes or professors Women who are ar kept i on n the Jump from morning moring until night night cooking coking and wash washIng washIng washing Ing and scrubbing and minding babies are not troubled trouble with wih the affinity busi business business business ness They are too busy trying tring to make the ends meet and spread one dollar doUar A Ii t I 1 1 s w I VH B G W The Te best way wy to drive dve them away is to get busy get busy at house household household household hold worK worl if i nothing n else offers ofer over the work of three three to find out whether their husbands husband come up to their ideals or not not If I you are a lonely woman a rich old maid or a childless widow and life Ufe is isas Isas Isas as gray say and drear to you as a p winters winters day dont waste another hour p mourning the dreariness and over and lack of Interest in your life The great work of humanity Is waiting for you to put your hand to it I and you can fill fl your days da so brimming over with wih exciting and absorbing Interests Interess that you ou will wi never nev r have leisure in which to shed an another another another other single tear for yourself There Ther Is settlement work to be done in inthe Inte inthe te the slums there are little children to tobe tobe tobe be mothered there are young girls to be protected thero there is disease to be fought and there are rights to be struggled for Did you ever notice the faces of the women who are engaged in m philanthropic work They are the tho serenest ser net the most beautiful the women woman that you will see anywhere and they are that way because they are too busy to think about their own little petty personal persona and worries The smile that wont come off Mf Is worn by the hard worker every ever time If OU would be I you happy happ keep hustling Fill Fi every hour with some Bome absorbing oc occupation Keep going Get excited over something and before you know it you able abl will wi have forgotten that you were It miser miserable miserable |