Happiness Is A State Of Mind

"Happiness is a state of mind" believed Beatrice Eckelberry, who learned first-hand what sorrow and loss are all about.  The following is the advice she gave to a friend following the death of her four-year-old, written many years ago in the year 1933:

"Tonight is the anniversary of the birth of my first-born.  I've been lonely for a few days and thinking a great deal.  Memory takes me back to January, 1928, before the beginning of this world-wide thing called Depression.