Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-02-16
SMILES.

SMILES.
Nature is smiling around pleasant emo |
tions are gathering in the heart let smiles |
be the subjects Of our thoughts.
There are times when We look on the dark !
side Of humanity when the mind, led on by |
moodincss, passes through increasing shad- !
ows to midnight blackness; there are others,
when, in the joyousDess Of our spirits, we
see the heavens and the earth lit UP with
sunshine.
| Different as mankind may be, one to an
other, in form, feature, disposition, and de
! sires, there are many things in which they
all agree. We all ike health better than
sickness, sunshine better that shade, riches
| better than poverty sweet things better than
sour, praise better than blame, and smiles
better than frowns.
Pleasant as smile is, it does not follow,
as a matter of necessity, that he who wears
smile is either happy himself or desires
to communicate happiness to others. a
smile may be sweet or bitter, agreeable or
ghastly as the case may be; man may
smile in derision, or wnon "the iron is en-
tering into his SOUL" ana he may also
"Smile and smile, and be- a villain"
None but pleasant and truc-heartcd SMILES
will suit our purpose.
There is the smile of the author as he
pens down happy thoughts the smile ofthe
reader interested in the book that engages
his attention the smile of the kind hearted
one as he gazes on children at play; and
the smile with which friends and acquaint-
ance meet and greet each other We love
to see them all, and never can see them on
the faces of others without their calling up
a smile into our own.
You have seen the sunny smile of the
school boy as he leaps with joy and holiday
in his heart. 1t is no anguid expression OF
common place pleasure, but glowing, ire
pressible manifestation of delight With a
| sister in his embraces, father Fastening to
meet him, fond mother with fearful eye,
awaiting his approach, old Jonas carrying
in his trunk at the door, Pompey barking
and jumping around him in the wildness of
his delight and with mid summer month
of happiness before him, no common smile
would suit his dancing spirit Truly this is
: a sunny, glowing smile.
There is the maiden smile Of her who Is
t walking, in the gayety of her heart, with
that worthy young friend who has gained
7 her affections; he who is more TO her than
4 her father or mother, ay than all the world,
is at her side and she is all to him, as he
is all to her. Well may she smile there is
u a thapkfuness in her spirit to the Father Of
II lhercies that heightncss her other charms
c There is the approving smile of father
when he looks exultingly on the child walk
d ing in the way in which it should go ; wher
Z he sees in his son generous spirit, an eagle
/ eye soaring in quest Of knowledge, yearn
y ing after all that is really great and trul,
1t good and a love of holy things or when h
! N gazes on daughter that is dear to him
l. whose obedience and ardent affection am
n piety bind her to his heart.
ne There is the smile of a mother as sh
&c fondly looks on the baby features her first
T. born nor is there anything like it in til
ie world,> How unbounded is mother love
ok what matchless affection! what a thrillin
Sc sensations of delight gathers round her hea
70 as she gently presses her darling to hc
ch bosom! With maternal tenderness her ey,
~ are bent upon his brow ; and now she is to-
- ing with her infant treasure -
shesrS sba bse e and PIsyq Tes
r This is but poor copy of a beautifi
original; but there are some things in ere
alton that neither poets nor painters ca
rs fully depict, and this one among them
d mothers smile.
N How heeting, how tickle, how changeabe
he are our emotions! We said there wcr
ID other smiles besides those that yielded u
10 pleasure.
'e is hardly worth mentioning, and we Nigh
Of as well, perhaps, have passed it by as
At thing unworthy of regard. There is tn
Sc naughty smile of the proud and the insult
to ing smile of successful knavery-unlovel
i. smiles are they both. a time is coming
Or whenthe proud will cease to smile, and whe
Id the knave will see with dismay how mucl
le he has outwitted himself
VI There is the smile of the fawner, and
4 hateful one it is, as he pandcrs to the foil
u of the great and writhes himself into tn
~ favor of those who are above him; and ther
3 is the smile of the deceiver, who smiles onl
=. to betray. This is even worse than tn
10 former, and far more deadly than the darkes
~ ~ trown. How many are there who eat tn
~ bitter bread of destitution and remorse, VIII
VI VI may date their downfall to a deseitful smilt
tu There is the bitter smile of him who hs
:. sn been supnlanted bya weather. wooer, an
~. ~. forsaken by her for whose welfare he woul
u have yielded up his life. The world is
81 desert to him now, his heart is desolate.-
"a "a And there is the bitter smile, too of hil
au a who has sinned and sorrowcd, and bee
aS ,Sb visited with merciless severity,
Ln "Whose erring heart the lash of sorrow bore,
~; And found no pity when it erred no more"
ad Such smile has much in it of agony pi
,as that it should ever be seen on human face
arr There is the smile of hope; and oh VIII
his q burden it takes from the oppressed hear
-D A dark night of fear is dawning into brigh
,ut ness-clouds of despair are scattered
nd beams of expectation-a long absent one
I'D about to return--a beloved invalid, who
# sickness was thought to be unto death,
tIe reviving--or the heavy ears that have be-
mo drinking in dolorious sounds have caug
'no the delightful accents. As midday brigl
;re ness after midnight gloom, so is hope aft
nd dependency. The smile ofhope is beautifi
in The smile of sympaty is sweet it com
from the heart, and goes to the heart, al
nlI blends with the very being The smile
NV pity and compassion makes its wearer lo'
ht hat as we fancy angels do and we hardly knC
hat whether the smile of forgiveness or of col
md mendaton is the loyelier Of the two. Co
not tain it is, that all these smiles do much
~ raise and endear humanityin in our estimatio
,ld What sunbeams would be taken from L
md world were smiles to be abolished