The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
Some Other Peoule.

C~heerfulness is to the mind what SUM-
shine is to the earth-its rejuvenatina
force. The cheerful people are always
young, however gray their locks, dim
their visions, or wrinkled their faces.
Nay, cheerfulness will keep gray hairs
and wrinkles at baymore effectually than
any cosmetic or magic wash. It is a
talisman which attracts affection and re-
gard to those who wear it. The cheer
full person is everywhere welcome, and
nowhere out of place. She lights up tbs
darkest day, and has the. same genial
and stimulating effect rs the sunbeam;
she makes the best of everything-even
misfortune seen through her spectaeles
does not look so ugly; she anticipates
happiness ahead and is sure that trouble
will get detained on the way; she sees
the silver lining of every cloud, and the
first rift; when another, murmurs and
doubts, she is full of thanksgiving and
hope.
The small discomforts of life do not
fret her as they do many another. She
is the best traveller the world over-heeds
jolts on the road only to laugh at them;
breakdowns and detentions are only SO
many novel experiences to her; and we
doubt if even a highwayman could rob
her of the habit of looking on the bright
side of everything. She does not make
faces over a poor dinner or a bad bed,
but resigns herself to- inconvenience SO
complacently that might be deceived
into thinking her accustomed to them.
That she is the most companionable
parsonage, the comfort of her presence
attests. Her example is infectious, and
we find ourselves cropping our way out Of
the slough of dependency by the light
of her countenance.
With many of us, perhaps, cheerful.
ness is no more a virtue for which we are
responsible than a quick ear for music
would be, than a Grecian profile, or 6
fine head of hair. It is bred in the bone
with a few of us, Just as talent for car
pentry, for sculpturing, or v~ersifying is
and as it is reckoned q disgrace to spell
badly, but no virtue to spell well, so tn.
talent for ~cheerfulness, being our birth
right, is not SO much set down to on
credit, but SO much subtracted there
from if we do not develop it into genius
But it is none the less a sweetener of ex
istence, and such q charming thing t.
meet with In man or woman, that we ar
apt to treat the owner as if it we're
L AoNh VI Lao W oO4OShAhB 1Ao oOW1AS
since we do not stop to inquire hoy
much is indigenous or how much exotic
for though the effect is the same upol
the spectator. yet the need belongs t
those who, having no natural inclinatiol
toward ~cheerfulness, have yet succeede,
in grating it upon the barren stock of
respondent disposition, who have bee
obliged to fight bravely for the sunshin
they spend lavishly.
We do not question that cheerfulnes
is a more certain receipt against the Ell
croachments of disease than the specific
of modern medical science. By exam
nation we should doubtless find that tn
few who reach the nineties are of a san
guine temper, who wear life like Q gal
land rather than a yoke; who do nc
wiring their hands when their stocks de
preciate, but are certain they will ris
tomorrow; who, when their case is de-
perate, do not make it worse by desperi
tion-peopie who can say
." life an empty bubble be,
How sad are those who never see
The rainbow in the bubble I"