If worry merely affected the one who worries it might be easier, in many cases, to view worry with equanimity and calmness.

But, unfortunately, in the disagreeable features of life, far more than the agreeable, the aphorism of the apostolic writer, "No man liveth unto himself," seems to be more than ordinarily true.

It is one proof of the selfishness of the "worrier"-- whether consciously or unconsciously I do not say--that he never keeps his worry to himself.

He must always "out with it." The nervous mother worrying about her baby shows it even to the unconscious child at her breast.

When the child is older she still shows it, until the little one knows as well as it knows when the sun is shining that "mother is worrying again." The worrying wife does not keep her worry to herself; she pours it out to, or upon, her husband.