The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

A well told story is as welcome as a sun
beam in a sick room. Learn to keep your
own bles to yourself. The world is
too busy to care for your ills and SORROWS.
Learn to stop c~roaking. If you cannot see
any good in the world keep the bad to
yourself. Learn TO hide your pains aud
aches under a pleasant smile. Nobody
cares to hear whether yon have the earache
headache or rheumatism. Don't cry.
Tears do we'll enough in novels aud on the
stage, but they are out of place in reallite.
Learn to meet your friends with a smile.
The good humored man or woman is al
ways welcome, but the dyspeptic or n.y.
~pochondriac is not wanted anywhere, and
is a nuisance as well.
Farther on he continues:
l am a cripple, but never think of my
misfo rune. Laugh and the world laughs
with you. People say: GLOW Wilder is
handicapped" am not handicapped.
don't want sympathy. | never think
about my shape. | make $40, 600 a year.
| have my yearly trip to Europe and have
the entree to all the theatres there and in
this city. | GO to the theatre three times
a week on an average. Wien | appear at
a benefit performance even the actors APP
! plaud me and the stage hands stop work
and say keep quiet; little Wilder is on
Whenever | go into society it is the same.
Why is it? 1t isn't because it's me, It's
because | bring smiles and laughter. |
never croak. People don't care for Will
der, but they do care for a good laugh.
Why, even the criminals on Blackweli's
Island are glad to see me, and, although
they have sins and tronble enough, they
have time to hear a good story, and make
the prison ~rafters ring viii, laughter.
In the above, Marshall p. undoubtedly
believes he has found the philosophers
stone and perhaps imagines hearty laugh
ter the panacea for all human ills. So it
would, perhaps, if it was all of life to live
and all of death to die, in which case moth
ing would so bccomea man as to laugh,
and the real philosopher would be the one
to go through the world With Il perpetual
grin upon his face.
But 10 Marshall, think again and
think soberly. Did you ever try laughing
out the more serious problems Of life.
Has it occurred TO you that as q means to
III end it might be exactly the thing to
laugh were the end somewhat different?
If one could laugh themselves way to
everlasting bliss, or to a mansion in the
skies, it would certainly be the right and
proper thing to laugh, and that continu-
ally. If he laughs best who laughs
last, there is a great deal of laughing done
nowadays by the wrong parties. 1t has
been so in the past, too. Nero was the
wrong fellow to laugh at the time. Alto
mat laughed first and repented a%fterward,
but repentance should come first, after
that the laugh. The more serious con-
Germs Of life are not disposed of with a
laugh. The man who stakes the haz-
ard Of a die on a question of momentous
Importance doesn't begin it with a laugh.
You can't laugh out the hard problems of
life any more than you can a quotation in
Euclid. You can't laugh out a Business,
social, literary, political, or any other sue
cess, unless a specialist whose mission is
to De funny, in which case you may make
moaey, but are apt to come short of sue
cess. We understand you thoroughly,
Wilder. Your plan is to make persons
laugh and SO make them happy. but a
better way, we think. is first to make them
happy.