Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-04-14
Let Cs Smile.

A paper called the Golden Rule has
IN article on smiles, which contains the
following;
The world is suffering for smiling
faces. The age is too intense in the
business direction, top fippant in tLs
social line, too sarcastic in its political
tendency, too aimless n its religious
life, too heartless IL its literature. The
world needs more snies and fewer
frCwns, more sunshine and less light
ming. II costs nothing TO allow a smile
10 play restfIllly upon th. features when
trading or voting. when talking or read
'ng. II pays infinitely more than It
costs in friendship, in finaI ce, in indi.
yidual growth. We can win more peo-
pie by smile than We can fTighten b.
a frown, Just as the sunshine grows
more trees than the lightning skaters. y
No paragraph ever contained more
truth than the above. A good. healthy
smile one that comes naturally, with
out being sent for, OF coaxed, one that
seems to bubble up among the dimples
like the water at the bottom of spring.
showing pearly teeth like the little peb-
lies 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 10 the world
than a gold mine. Who is there in thy
world who has not been made better be
a smile? A smile is q legal tender any
where, and person who smiles natur-
ally is as safe from harm as il is possi-
ble TO be. Men who grow tired Of
their homes, sick of the world. and
ready 10 give up the battle, can lie
strengthened and make ready for the
fight of another day by q smile. if il
comes without being sent for. One
man with a good-natured smile can 60
into a crowd of grumbling. growing
business men, who think the country Is
oil 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 police
men 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. Some,
times We think it would pay a city TO
hire more smiling faces and less police
men, to keep the peace.
There are some men who are cno-
tinually and constitutionally devoid Of
smiles, who would be sick il they should
accidentally smile, and such men should
be compelled TO pass two hours a day
in the presence Of good, single-handed
smilers, and learn to be happy. II
there is ANYTHING in the world that has
more power than a smile, when il is
shot off from the right kind Of a gun
we have never seen H. The smile of CIR
will draw young man from his mother
and from bad company. 1t viii teach
him 10 be n man, and he will. il he
loves the girl, do nothing that would
chase the smile away. The smile of a
mother can conquer the wayward child
and compel il 10 come into camp 10 be
spanked or earessed. The smile of a
teacher can do more with n pupil than
a bundle Of hazel brush. A good.
old-fashioned, natural, unaffected smile
costs nothing, wears ont no costly
machinery, hut rather oils il and makes
il run smooth, and il is a medicine that
we all like 10 take, and il leaves no bad
taste in the mouth. sun.