The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
LET US SMILE.
A Good Healthy Smile Legal
Tender Anywhere.
It is the Medicine That We ALI
Like to Take.

tains the following:
1.-THE world is suffering for smiling
faces: The age is too intense in the
business direction, too hippant in
the social lines, too sarcastic in its
political tendency, too aimless in its
religious life, too heartless in its lit
erature. The world needs more
smiles and fewer frow3s. more sun
shine and less lighting. It costs
nothing to allow a smile to play rest
fully upon the features when trading
or voting, when talking or reading.
It pays infinitely more than it costs
in friendship, in finance, in individ.
ual growth. We can win more peo-
pie by a smile than we can scare by
q frown, Just as the sunshine grows
more trees than the lightning shat.
tiers.
No paragraph ever contained more
truth than the above. A good,
healthy smile, one that comes natur.
ally, without being sent for, OF
coaxed. one that seems to bubble up
among the dimples like the water at
the bottom of a spring. showing
pearly teeth like the little pebbles
thrown up by the water of the spring,
a smile that goes ripping along the
face like the aforesaid water among
the daisies and water cress, on its
way to the sea, is worth more to the
world than a gold mine. Who is
there in the world who has not been
made better by a smile? A smile is
a legal tender anywhere, and a per-
son who smiles naturally is as safe
from harm as it is possible to be,
Men who grow tired Of their homes,
sick of the world, and ready to give
up the battle, can lie strengthened
and made ready for the fight of an
other day by a smile. if it comes
without being sent for. One man,
with a good natured smile, can 90
into a crowd of g%rumbling. growing,
business men, who think the coun-
try is all going to the dogs, and
change the whole atmosphere in ten
seconds. A man with a good smile
can stop a fight between angry men,
when policemen would fail. The
smile of a good woman, when she
comes upon a party of gossipers of
her own sex, will change the subject
in q moment, and make them
ashamed of themselves. Sometimes
we think it would pay a city to hire
more smiling faces and less police
men to keep the peace. With a
hundred good, natural smllers walk
ing around, going into places where
men were liable to get in u hot box,
with a pleasant word where it would
do the most good, there would be
very few rows. OF course it would
be necessary for our smiler to be able
to back his smile with muscle, so if
an unruly person did not take kindly
to the smile, and knocked it around
under the smiler's ear with a
chair or a bung starter, the
smiler could wipe the floor
with the wretch. There would be
times when a smile would fail to do
its work, as there are times now
when a smile fails to accomplish all
that it desires to-, but take it ON the
whole the smile would be better than
the club or the revolver. There are
some men who are continually and
constitutionally devoid of smiles, who
would be sick if they should acct
dentally smile, and such men should
be compelled to pass two hours a day
in the presence Of good, single-hand-
ed smilers, and learn to be happy.
If there is anything in the world that
has more power than a smile, when
1t is shot from the right kind of a gun.
We have never seen it. The smile OF
a girl will draw a young man from
his mother, and from bad COM
pany. 1t will teach him to be
q man, and he will, if he
loves the girl, do nothing that would
chase the smile away. The smile of
mother can conquer the way
ward child, and compel it to come
camp to be spanked or caressed.
The smile OF a teacher can do more
with a pupil than a bundle of hazel
brush. A good, old fashioned, nat
ural. unaffected smile costs nothing,
wears out no costly machinery, but
rather oils it and makes it run
smooth, and it is a medicine that we
all like to take, and it leaves no bad
taste in the mouth. Blessed if we
wouldn't like to see one this very
minute. as late as it is and sleepy as
are, as the clock tolls the wee
small hours and the compositors
yawn and say this is copy enough
Tor tonight.