Show It 11 c 01vr Escaping From Ourselves I vr i p It Is related in the Headers Magasine that John Fox Jr while In pursuit d of local color for a sketch stopped over night m a rude cabin in the Kentucky If 1 mountains Jn the morning while making his toilet he was closely watched I 17 t I S by a small boy of the family who was clothed 1 In I a pair 1 of cottonadc 1 pants t 1c latched to a hickory hIlt Shoes and hat were lacking and his hair had not 2 been combed for six weeks Hu watched the visitor so intently that Mr Fox JI thought he was making an excellent lmpiet > slbn on the young barbarian As he 1 put on the last touch the boy unable to contain himself longer broke in Say 1 t L mister he inquired aint you a good deal of trouble to jeiPelf There Is much practical 1 philosophy concealed In the query of the crude Kentucky I i c Ken-tucky youth Do we not give a good deal oC trouble to ourselves and aswe riser rise-r I 1n the social scale do not our selfcreated burdens grow more numerous and 7 j more weighty The desire 1 to possess to get on to Improve ones condition Is J of course ct the bottom of human piosrcrj There Is l a discontent which makes I 11 Jr for advancement but are we sure that the average son of civilisation is less l butthensome to himself than were 1U savage forebears i T All of us vo fear are a good deal of trouble to ourselves There are inevitable I in-evitable woes with us and before us but do we not fret with imaginary Ills and I raj do battle for a lifetime with the demons of our own fancy A wise man has f n1 sall that the chief source of worry in the world la I not real but imaginary evil I We make our breast 1 a storehouse of pain which we Inflict upon ourselves as 1 p i I II well as upon others IIJv VVe admit and should emulate the buoyant spirit of Sydney Smith who I n c when broken by age and many Infirmities said to tin inquiring friend I have e gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwIse very well I I Thct is no bettor or surer cseapo for thf man who is a good deal I of trot i I I I I 1 ble to himself than devotion to hard work Philadelphia Ledger |