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Show WORRY. What This Foolish, Enervating Habit Hab-it Do;-s For Mankind. Worry Is forethought gono to sped. Worry Is discounting possible future sorrows so thai thu Individual may have present mlsoryt Worry Is the father fa-ther of Insomnia. Worry is tho traitor' In our camp that dampens our powder, weakens our aim. Uuder the guise of helping us to bear the present nud to be ready for the future worry multiples multi-ples enemies within our mind tu s.tp our stiength. Worry Is tho dominance of tho mind by a single, vngtle, restless, unsatl-llotl fearing nnd ferlnl Idea. Tho lunntal energy and finco thai should ! concentrated concen-trated on the successive duties of tho day ts constantly and surreptitiously abstracted and absorbed by this one fixed fix-ed idea. The ful:, rich strength of the unconscious working of the mind, that which produces our besX success, that represents our finest activity, Is tapped led away and wasted on worry. Worry must uul be confused with anxiety, thmtalJ both words ngreo In meaning originally, a "choking" or a "strangling, referring, of course, to the throttltng effect upon Individual activity. Anxiety f ices largo Issues of life, seriously, calmly, with dignity. Anxiety til Ways suggests hopeful possibility! possi-bility! H Is active In being ready and devising measures to meet tho outcome Worry Is not onu largo Indlvliluil sorrow; sor-row; it is n colony of potty, vague, Insignificant, In-significant, restless imps of fear, that become important only from ihnlr combination, com-bination, their constancy, their Iteration. Itera-tion. William George Jordau in tho Saturday Evening Post. |