The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-15
ABOUT CHEERFUL MEN.
IN. Quad. in p,,toi, Frce rress, }

If cheerful men were selling for ten cents apiece and had thousand dol lars to throw away. wouldn't buy one of them used to have positive rev erence for smiling. grinnius, bland voiced man Many a time I've met Smith or Green or White on my way down town and il would jump my soul foot high to hear him call cut
 Well my boy, beautiful morning, eh , Ism, everything just lovely? Why. l seem to be floating in mid-air' Why, sir, l wouldn't trade this earth for all the heavens ever preached about by the ministers Have cisar2 No2 Then have drink No? Dear me- but what can do to brighten you up and make you feel like an angel on roller skates -
 And I'd stand oil and look at him and wonder if the land beyond the skies did really contain a happier soul An, the old hypocrite' got la know in after years that hiS children were afraid of him, his wife trcmhled as he entered the door. and that il was his daily habit to growl out aS he left the door
 Wood, l bought $2 worth last week
 If that gone we'll go without until Sat urday \ ou are the most eNtravagant woman in Detroit l believe you burn ] 1t up to spite me Soap Didn't l get bar last Saturday, If you let the children play horse with the soap you must take the consequences Go down on the ferry I'd like to see myself lugging three or four younguns and d limping wife around town
 hoL;tno ,l, ,,,an 1 old fraud and liar Heis well-drcssed, while his children are the rag bags of l the neighborhood He has dollar for ] cigars when his wife wears Il bonnet six years old He passes for wholc-soulcd fellow with the public but k a fault 1 finder at home You'll see him taking 1 the cool hreezes on the river. while his l family are weltering in d stuiiy house i on some back street
 1 want to sec man grin when there s 1 anything to grin at. but when Green i gets up in the morning and declares he l hasn't had meal fit to eat for the last l three months. and that he can't { see why l his wife is always groaning around and ! his children always whining he has no business to stop the first man he meets. i with smile clear.hack to his ears, and shout out
 Why. old fel, how solemn you do l look Brace up. man-hte is worth the i living ten times overi
 l used to reverence Green He had a grip of the hand like carpenters vice he had voice as bland as June he Il make eonsumptive believe that no thing more than sore heel Was the matter used to lie in ambush for him just to hear his hearty voice and sec hi, serene countenance and I'd % about my day work wondering what sort of guardian angel he had found out one day when policeman had to % in and stop him from beating his wife
 When you find q man who can grin over the servant girls jumping out al an hours notice. with wife fiat in bed and the children having a scarlet fever look around the eyes, don't you % off on fishing trip with him When a man can soar among the angels with bill collectors ringing his door-bcll- last weeks grocery Iill unpaid the children wanting shocS-thc rent run. ming behind and his wife coughing all night long he's an internal old fraud and ought to be kicked When a chap who has frozen the children, jawed the cook and blasted his wife IS sort of morning tonic before leaving the house meets you about block from the gate and iS troubled because you haven t got your angel harp on your shoulder keep your hand on any stray half-dollar you happen to have about you He's mean enough to steal chicken-broth from n boy with broken back