Courage Today and Tomorrow (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE WINDWARD SIDE "No, I feel just too blue for words. I can't seem to feel like doing anything at all." "You do look half sick," says the Flabby Sympathetic Friend. "I am sick. That's just what I ami" "That's too bad," says Flabby. "And I hear John is ill, too." "Well, he was ill--he's up now, though, but I am dead tired. And our dog caught cold or something--he is over it, but you know how fond I am of him, and I keep worrying about him all the time." "But I thought you said he was all right?" "Yes, he is, but yesterday the water main burst right there in front of the garden gate, and, land sakes, it makes me ill to see them throwing all that dirt around so " It is poor economy, poor conservation, poor everything to get the habit of fear, whether that quality be expressed in fretting or worry. Energy which might have gone to the development of courage has been absorbed by what is worthless. This sort of waste is sheer dissipation. Of most of us in the world the day requires all that we can give. Often it seems to take more than we havel Some of us are obliged to have not only the early bird habit, but in order to get our household work, or our sewing, or our studying done, or to foot up accounts, we must have the night owl habit, too. Perhaps it has been our custom to give vent to our feelings. When the first sense of fear came, many years ago, we were as surprised as could be. We are fortunate if, by this time, fear has not become habitual in us. If it has not become so, we can still get rid of a trouble which will do nothing for us and is bound to work against us. If the habit is an old one, then, little by little, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, we shall have to fight it to get rid of it. But let us be sure that the day c...