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Show BANISH WORRY AND TROUBLE You Can Do It By Cultivating Self-Control and Cheerfulness. BY iMRS. KINGSLEY. Wm ELF-CONTROL makes a man Lpj master of himself. Ial Self-mastery is a triumph. A fight goes on constantly between the armies of health and tho forces of disease. You can't be neutral neu-tral in this fight You are the battleground. Yours is to be tho victory or the defeat. Control your strength. Master your emotions. Livo and be happy. Physically and mentally speaking, live in the sunshine. Darkness, doubt and gloom are depressing. de-pressing. Light, certainty and joyfulness aro exhilarating. Worry is a poison that causes ill-health. ill-health. Your heart, lungs, kidneys, skin, brain react to pleasure, to pain, to cheerfulness and unhapplness. Your health reflects your mental state. Worry, indecision, depression undermine un-dermine your physical power. Sleeplessness, failing memory, trembling, tearfulness, Irritability, nervousness, constant fatigue, all follow fol-low in the wake of mental strains and emotional excess. Why do you v,orry. Is It a habit. Do you eujoy it? Do you worry mostly about the things that have happened and that you cannot alter? Or do you distress yourself over the things that can, may or will happen in tho future? Worry is a poison. You possess the antidote. You cannot alter any other factor in life as easily as yourself. Confidence In yourself, faith In tho world, courage and congenial occupation occupa-tion are the means of combatting tho evils of worrlmcnt. In fact, a mind thoroughly occupied with healthful thoughts hasn't time for worry. If an idea insists upon bothering you, if it dominates your life, sleeping sleep-ing and waking, you are not master of your own brain. You aro tho slave of a harassing idea. You can't drive out worry by saying: say-ing: "I shall not worry about this or that any longer." Every time you say such a formula to yourself you are thinking the very thought you wish to deny. Crowd worries out of the mind by putting countltsa other thougths into it. Get busy. Put your mind to work on something that Interests you. Ride a hobby. Take up new studies. Read cheerful books. Listen to stimulating, stimulat-ing, absorbing music. Cultivate your sense of humor, Put all possible energy into your daily work. Seek to be of service to others In the language of Goethe. "Submit "Sub-mit to what is unavoidable, banish the impossiblo from the mind and look around for some new object of interest in-terest in life." "Never cross a bridge until you come to it." Don't be self-centered. Lose yourself your-self in the activities of the world. Control your doub's and your fears as you do your hands and your feeL The mind must be your servant Master Mas-ter it. Complete self-control banishes worry. Don't weaken your health and power through poisocous worrying. |