And in my cache of childhood memories, I can honestly say the times my mom looked the most stressed ordejected was when her mother-in-law (my beloved Nanny) would come over and immediately begin picking up around the house.
Fast forwarding a century to our own Great Recession and its corresponding groups of newly impoverished and dejected folk, one wonders what Conwell might have said to the ones who have come to participate in, or sympathize with, the Occupy Wall Street movement.