The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-08-26

Happiness is success. If there can
but permeate the spirit, some float
ing sense of joy from day to day,
then is our success assured. If We
can feel (perhaps only for momenD
the elation of being alive, of being
our best selves, of filling out our des-
tined scope, then we are succeeding.
Look at the people on the street;
the faces going past you as you walk;
note how many are sorry, detected,
sick and dispirited. But even as you
look on these transparent masks, do
YOU know intuitively that their I'M
happy plight is lack of friends who
try to be pleasant? Think of the de-
licious thrill of encouragement one
feels now and then in simply encoun-
tering a glad, happy human face pass
ing in the throng. Happiness, per-
haps comes by the grace of Heaven;
but the wearing of happy counter
ance, the preserving of happy mien,
is a duty and blessing particularly
for those about you). Ii we are so
unloving and embittered that there
is no enthusiasm in our hearts which
can show in our faces, at least we are
bound by every sacred obligation to
our fellow men to maintain smiling
countenance. Yes, even if it be in
sincere, for two reasons: for the sake
of ourselves and for the sake OF
others. There is nothing more
patent than habit, and sullen, hang
dog, injured, resentful expression is
not only an unkindness to others but
a menace to ourselves, while he who
continually wears a smile must at
times be betrayed into smiling glad
ness of spirit.
"By seeming gay
You grow to what you seem.
Let us remember the wisdom of the
student of expression in this regard
and be sure that if the inward habit
of mind can control the outward
habit of body, this same outward
habit of the features and frame i'm
presses itself reflexly on the indwell-
ing spirit.
1t is a realization of this truth
that makes the Japanese insist so
vigorously on the courteous seeming
in all their daily department. Cheer
fulness should be a social duty; and
if every man is not successful, he
should at least assume the aspect of
success, the guise of a happy con-
tented spirit And how much might
we not add to the total sum of our
happiness as a people, if we would
feel such to be an obligation. If
you can find any justification for
putting a murderer to death, there
surely ought to be some punishment
for that unsocial creature who con-
stantly shows a gloomy face to the
world Lincoln said: lnflict not
your woes on the public, they will no
more pity thee than birds of prey.
We do pity and sympathize with our
friends when they tell us their
troubles, but it is not a Christian
spirit to constantly talk of those
things and look sour, What right
have you to sulk or be sad of visage
Your sorrow is, after all, no more
than the common inheritance of al
our kind, and there is before us the ole
duty of brave, cheerful heroism In
the name of all the saints, therefore
let us pick up a heart, from some
where, and turn pleasant look up
on the world. We shall all become
conspirators for happiness, each MAJ
in collision with his neighbor to in
crease the sum of JOY on earth, t,
tighten the burden of the days ant
put far away the night time of in
eyitable natural sorrow.