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Show AVOID SPREADERS OF GLOOM Chronic Grumblers and Avowed Discontented Dis-contented Persons Are Never the Best of Companions In Life. The chronic grumbler is not a good companion nor lo any way ao admirable admir-able person. We fly from her as from a contagious disease. Nothing so certainly cer-tainly affects one's spirits as being In the constant -company of a person who has a grievance. Th cherishing of discontent with our circumstances, business, dress, or any other thing in life soon robs us of beauty and marks the countenance with the lines of worry and 111 temper that tell their own unhappy story. Why anybody who Is young should Indulge In-dulge In grumbling as a pastime Is one of the puxzlee that merer is solved, yet such people there are, and we meet them to our sorrow almost every day. If they happen to be passengers on a railway train they pile their bias and bundles on an extra seat for which they hsve not paid, are conveniently blind to the weariness of other passengers passen-gers w bo are standing, and assume the aspect of martyrs when the conductor courteously but peremptorily Informs thetn that they must make room. They object to having the windows open, although the air way ba loaded with Impurltlee from the condition of the crowd; they scold and fret at the throng or the conductor and rail at Providence In general becaiue everything every-thing in lire Is not arranged with a view to their comfort |