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Show The net story: "What Became of That Fat Hen." Some day one of these fat-headed, complacent, "take-It-as-it-comes" fei-loWS fei-loWS w ill c t a come-back to his "don't worry" talk. "Of course things I would pu on Just tho same if I wero dead" the worrier will exclafm. "Of I course this job doesn't depend entirely en-tirely upon me. But there Is one I innocent, obscure, tiny little If that you've overlooked, ir I wore dead these things would l. done, but the ptdhl Is I'm not ffBa'd. I'm alive so why act as if I were dead?" ; "There nre a whole lot of don't j worriers eiv.tfcrring up the world right now. who act as if they were dead. I if they aren't. BUI If you aren't dead you can't go around acting as If you were, to prove Mint you aren't worrying. worry-ing. You bnve i'" be alive enough to attend to tho Job you've got and to do a little fiRurlnc about It and a little thinking and planning about it, and if you want to call that worry, you'll havr: to." Some such speech as that is t;om-injr t;om-injr to tin i don't worry nappers some day. Its easy enough to say "don't worry." and of course in so far as that means don't get nervous about thlnrrs that you can't help, that's sane enough. Hut the po'int is that a good many thlnp-s that worriers worrv over can be helped and they know "it and their worrying is just an effort to find p. way, "Why won-y? - VTtll.' If the truth must be tpld, because some times there really are things to worry nbout and If tho don't-worrlers would pitch in and help Instead of standing bv and Jeerinp; at the rest of us. me might get some of those things done a little scorer. |