Show WHY tH THE BLUES just hist stop and ask yourself the use too many people seem to take pleas ure in cultivating their pains paine and grievances among the lie selfish and superfluous luxuries ius lux uries urles what are commonly known us lis the blues take high rank if we ue call the lie halt and take the time to do so any of us can think of nf all sorts of dignal things that tire are really or supposedly the mutter matter with us but the use uie what vital good does it do half the time when then we tell a hard bard luclid tory ne v are telling it to someone who ullo lias has ten tell thaes as good a reason to complain its not interesting or flattering natt ering to realize when were ere low in our winds minds that it may inay be because we ute ate ampro dently or slept too little or let light as air fret us or broke some one of 1111 natures tures wise rise and well ell dished just as mischief in a schoolroom or latitude lassitude in an audience may be due to bad air so mental depression may be tile the result of a regimen of life that Is awry its very easy to poke fun at the conventions vent ions lons and kick oner oer the traces of if sleep and temperance and three meals a lay day nt at reg regular ular hours its easy to decry decency and regu lari ity tyus stupid and victorian hut but theres a rea reason sofi I 1 the people who complain that their orn on nerves torment them and ahn life is haagland hard har gland and fate Is cruel are not the people who have worked corked hard bar levei soberly and obeyed the rules rule s they are the people iho who said aid they ere baling the time of illein lives bich really inet meant tilt they were throw ing away tile hie lime of their lives the precious time which is all that any of us has to live 11 ve 0 on 1 you do not hear thy the workers com coir plain of nt the petty things that seem to ti bother bolher the idlers alie workers have no time to cultivate their pains and grievances as it if these were florens flor ers the workers Nor kers tire arc busy currying on in pance place of tl those ic who bo stop and sit down to examine the bruises and coddle rome frieida if f the world are re carded as timet fitters of strength no buttress wid and founta nf if SYll sympathy pathy never requiring vincnt if who 1111 11 thein but know knew alie o glorious glor lous and human beings often cry froni from tile 13 of flip heart to open spate for reen lorrein and refreshment they feel their Neak weakness nc la 14 emptiness lint birt they do not visit vl lt ther delcour dl cour their sence of failure or their plague of if nen nerea upon glicr fellows they kovi ivd p their heirls for other hearts their feces ances shine they are arc a blessing where when they stand ind and as they move it Is aliat bat we ue feel for others not abal lini we feel in ili ou surphes rhes that matters public ledger |