LITTLE WORRIES by A. C. Dixon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 47.

LITTLE WORRIES.

By A. C. Dixon

WE have read of a battle against cannibals gained by the use of tacks. They had taken possession of a whaling vessel, and bound the man who was left in care of it. The crew, on returning, saw the situation, and scattered upon the deck of the vessel a lot of tacks, which penetrated the bare feet of the savages, and sent them howling into the sea.

We brace ourselves up against great calamities; but the little tacks of life, scattered along our way, piercing our feet and giving us pain, are hard to bear.

A gentleman was once absorbed in studying the question of socialism, when his wife came in, with despair in her face, and wanted advice about the servants.

"O, my dear," he replied, "I can not give my time to little matters like domestic service! I am trying to solve the social problem of the universe."

"Well," replied the wife, "you solve the problem of the kitchen, and I will promise you to solve the problem of the universe in twenty-four hours."

Really it is much easier to dispose of those great questions which cover the world than it is to meet and successfully overcome the little worries which present themselves day by day. —A. C. Dixon.