Show Uncommon Sense r JOHN HN BLAKE GLOOM I IS CATCHING E EVEN VEN though 7 0 arc reasonably sure that the sun Bun Is still DUll In n the sky a cloudy day doy depresses us Most lost of us suffer from a 0 feeling of foreboding foreboding ing even on a clear day when a cloud comes between between- us and the distant fire that lights and ond warms worms the world We are ore similarly sensitive to all the little troubles of our lives to lives to anything anything any any- thing that disturbs our regularly ordered ordered or or- dered existence A temporary Illness a Illness a suspicion that there are ore some kind of business breakers ahead these ahead these things plunge us Into gloom And we In our turn pass the gloom along For our friends s seeing the black and aDd foreboding faces that we wo wear grow gloomy gloom too One sullen-faced sullen man In an office will sometimes sp spoil U the day for tor the entire working force One ODe croaker crooker on board a ship In la a storm orm may send sena na the Ine whole nolO passenger list Into something very like a panic pang Nobody a n gloomy man man but but everybody listens to him him and and looks at him The prophet of evil Is never without an audience Poe Poc In 10 his remarkable poem shows how the raven ra by croaking crooking the word nevermore was able oNe to drive a n luckless luckless luck lock less Jess poet almost to the verge erge of In In- sanity Continual gloom Is sot Lot good for the soul any more than continual shadow would be good for the green green mil blossoming blos blos- blossoming things upon the surface of the earth We all need sunshine and oDd a 0 great deal deol of it It Is not De necessary essary to go about continually continually con con- telling people how happy we weare weare are ore like Pollyanna but we can at nt least keep our trouble to and not look as os If we were limping along toward the grave or the gallows The gloomy man or woman In ahome n a home destroys destros the happiness of an nn endre entire entyre en en- tire tyre family family and and usually drives the children out on the streets where nt ot least there Is air and sunshine and aDd maybe mabe now and then a hurdy The reason renson the Jazz Is s popular that the comic supplement sells sens by the million mil lion c copies ples and ond that the comedian gets getso a o thousand dollars n a week Is because we will do anything to get rid of i gloom It Is a n burden on OD life a menace to human happiness If It you are a gloom addict change your mode of thought You are ore as os' much as-much much of n a menace to the community In to which you move as was Typhoid T Mary to hers Copyright |