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The Four Headaches

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 35.

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The Four Headaches

THE four Headaches were discussing their parents.
“My father,” bragged Headache No. 1, “was Ambition, and my mother was Overwork, a masterful, energetic pair.”
Headache No. 2 was prompt to reply, “My father was Indolence, and my mother was Pampering; an elegant couple they were.”
“My father,” Headache No. 3 broke in, “was Intemperance, and my mother was Gluttony, and a merry house was theirs—part of the time.”
“My parents were serious—Worry and Fret; no frivolity in their home,” said Headache No. 4.
“But you ought to have seen my Grandfather Self-will and my Grandmother Thoughtlessness,” Headache No. 1 boasted, throwing out his chest.
“Why!” exclaimed the other Headaches in one voice, “those were our grandfather and grandmother!”
Thus the Headaches discovered that they were first cousins, and ever since they have worked in close cooperation, and have lent each other freely their hammers and hatchets and punches and awls.—Selected.