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Show I DON'T WORRY READ A BULLETIN I n TJ HENEVEIt you get lonesome, I I t V or broke, or anything, don't I I give way to melancholy; get a gov- I 1 ernment bulletin. There are lots of I JLj 'em; thousands, to be accurate, do-JM do-JM voted to everything from mice to mountains, and from forests to fleas. I I Hundreds of employes, and many of- I 1 fices are kept running just to prove II to the American public that some-" some-" 1 I thing's the matter with it. I I The best little conscience-stimu-y 1 later in the whole world is the United States Bureau of Public Health, which is always whispering some good advice in our ears. The particular partic-ular bulletin which is on the desk carries the slogan, "Don't Worry." The board has decided, or had decided de-cided when it issued the bulletin, that speed and competition are sinking sink-ing the nation. The board calls serious seri-ous attention to the chirping bird which builds but one home and does not seek another at Newport; to the foxy fox, who owns nothing and has no complaint, and to the wooflng hound, who should worry over the fact that he has had nothing to eat but a sterilized bone. These creatures crea-tures are happy, the experts say. But look at the public! If we take this lesson to heart, we may find many lessons right at hand, so many, in fact, that any man who fails to profit deserves to remain unsaved. un-saved. Eyes will kindle at the sight of dogs with right ideas, English sparrows will be observed with awe and anxiety ,and even fox furs can be looked on as the last reminder of a sly, untrammeled mind. Behold as a worthy instance, the skunk. The skunk Is satisfied with his own company. All he asks is to be left alone. No slavish worry on his part for social gatherings. Or again, who can contemplate and remain unmoved un-moved the hyena? He's the boy With the hearty laugh, and it's all the damo with him whether his food died this year or last. Nearer home is the calm, contented clam, who takes life silently and without protest, content ,to fulfill his destiny which, of course, is chowder, uncomplaining, and sliding slid-ing into eternity without even a "last word." Whoever heard of a clam worrying? Answer, none. Does a parrot worry about anyone's opinion. Not he? In free and untrammeled un-trammeled terms he voices his opinions opin-ions with a winning frankness that knows no curb. Or contemplate for a moment the domestic pig (sus do-mesticus). do-mesticus). The pig doesn't worry about soup on his vest ,or ears, or eyes, for that matter. And, for fear our investigation be charged with prejudice, let us sit at the figurative feet of the nimble angleworm. angle-worm. The nimble angleworm tolls not neither does he spin, and pays no rent . For the angleworm a sporting chance on a hook, surely an adventure adven-ture worthy of the aspirations of any angleworm with red angleworm blood in his angleworm veins, a few minutes min-utes sporting acrobat-like at the end of a line, and then away. What a life! 'For a picture of supreme content, a humble laborer in the vineyard, let us dwell upon the buzzard. The buzzard buz-zard makes no pretense, puts up no false front, lives in no eight-room house-on an office boy's income; he buzzard is a scavenger and is in lqvo with his art. He devotes his life to it ,and is at peace, For those who are athirst for more information, there is the less"on of the fish; a fish doesn't worry about where his next drink is cqming from. Finally, but by no means exhausting ex-hausting the lessons to be found, the kangaroo has only one pocket, but that doesn't sour his disposition. Quoting the bulletin, in conclusion. "Not all worry is preventable, but for the most part it can be avoided. "The best antidote for worry is a change of mental occupation, a getting get-ting away from the scones which provoke worry, exercise in the open air, a good book, a pleasant recreation, recrea-tion, or a temporary change of occupation. occu-pation. As a matter of mental health every sufferer from this unfortunate condition owes it to himself to discover dis-cover some simple means of getting away from this habit, which is destructive de-structive to health and peace of mind alike." The Dearborn Independent. |