Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-30
Bill Nye On Smiles.
Denver Opinion.

Il Denver opinion.
The modern stage, the modern pres
and the modern pulpit have demonstra
ted that it is not wicked to smile. Thi,
is grand stride toward the emancipa
ton of man from the shackles of bogus
gravity and the thraldom of bilious hyp-
ocrisy. | am proud to know that in nv
own native land it is not considered flip
pant and giddy to smile, and that men
are actually obtaining an honest liveli.
hood by assisting nature. For a long
time the battle between the comedian
and the lunatic was an unequal one, but
In later years, the former seems to be in
the ascendency. And yet there are
those who still yearn for the asylum.
There are many varieties OF the genus
smile. There's the smile that is child
like and bland, the cultivated smile, and
the plebian smile that ripples forth like
the first joyous laugh of the boiler fact
ory, and that spreads out with a gurgle
that closes the eyes, trots out the wis
dom teeth, and then shows roguish
dimple in the tonsils.
There might be enumerated, also. the
classical smile, the subdued smile, and
the parlor smile, the after-election smile,
and the smile that you get two Tor a
quarter called the twofor smile.
Then we have the stage smile and the
portrait smile. 1t might be well to d.
gress here, and refer to the portrait smile
more in detail. Kind, genial and wealth
pampered reader, as you st in your gau-
dy but still rich and voluptuous apart
meHts this beautiful morning, with your
feet on the piano, did you ever stop to
consider the smile that looks out at you
from the portrait of one you might 9TH
crwise love? DO / refresh your memory?
Do you call to mind the genial smirk
which is, in fact, the thin silk overskirt
of 10y covering the silicia sham of name
less woe? Do you happen to have about
your house the photograph. of q friend
whose petrified gayety fills your eyes
with briny weep?
Joy is something that we cannot seize
ruthlessly, and lead into the photograph
er's laboratory by the ear I've tried
that. l always leave my umbrella and
my hope behind, when 20 into the
photographers gilded hell. | can laugh
while the dentist pulls out my sound
teeth and plugs the poor ones, L can even
be CAV while nature and the cucumber
OF commerce are engaged in moral COM
bat, but | cannot affect Joy that l do
not feel, while the cast-iron hat-rack of
the artist leans against my love of home,
and the artist bids me look at place on
the wall that is freckled with iodine.
People who will lock at my portrait at
the Vatican at Rome, New York, will
notice that II has ti..., pained expression
and wild, hunic ;Jok, a. though |
had lodged into Iae photographers
to evade a creditor, or long suiieli ing
and relentless vigilance committee, but
those who think so are in error. do
not call to mind a photograph that
ever had taken under those circum-
stances.
/ am positive tnat the art of photo
graphy is upon the eve of grand stride
toward perfection. Those who have new
er seen anything on the ave of a grand
stride, will find little interest in what i
am about to say; but the day is not far
distant when no sane man WI h we his
pulled without the auninis-
ton of an anasthetic. Cut this out and
see if l am not right.