Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-12
THROUGH YOUR TEARS
That is the Prescription Given by Lecturer
Robert ]. Burdette,
BE MERRY WHEN TROUBLE IS THlCKEST
Two Days in Every Week for worry,
One IL Yesterday of the Past
and other f. Tomorrow
That Never Comes.
RHY WHEN TROUBLE is THlCKEST


More chimes from a testers bells were
heard at Boyd's theater last night. Rob
ert j. Burdette rang them under the aus
pieces Of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION, and that organization found in
the occasion a business opportunity OF
which II awaited itself with eminent sue
cess. 1t collected orders for all the course
tickets it will issue for next seasons series
OF entertainments.
Secretary f. l.. Willis, before introduce
Ing the speaker. outlined the course for
next year and sent the ushers along the
aisles to collect any orders that anyone
cared to give. Blanks had been printed in
a prospectus that was circulated at the
door, and when these blanks were collected
II was found that enough of them had been
filed in and signed to take up all the course
tickets to be issued next fall. The seat re-
serving, beginning September Is, will be
done by mail to keep out spectators, and
the course Is to include Prof. John b. De
Notes lecture on THE Harp OF the
Senses" President Russell H. lee
ture on 1.-THE Heroism of a Private Life"
a reading by f.. Hopkinson Smith, an enter
tainment by the Edwin r. Weeks company
Of singers and instrumentalists, and con-
! CIV VI NhO 0"NoASh SoCA NNAhS Ns
first American tour and the whitney Mock
ridge Concert company.
The course that closed last night had In
oluded seven numbers and netted the as
ISOLATION about 5000.
Boys Greet Him.
When Mr.. Burdette appeared, unpreten-
tious as ever and smiling just as cordially,
there came from the gallery the unexpected
| aalutofinn sIJaIln pnhNS ssRnhh l0Okad
UP, saw a group OF unblushing and frankly
friendly boys who never attended a lee
ture before unless by mistake. 1t seemed
to please him, for he smiled more broadly
than ever and at the conclusion of his lee
ture thanked them.
His lecture. the theme Of which was "a
Merry Heart Doeth Good Like a Medi-
cine" was, in part, as follows:
when should a man take medicine?
When he's sick! Then's the time-and
then's Just the time when he won't take It.
So it is with a merry heart. When a mans
son stands at the foot OF his class; when
his dog gets bit on the street before his
very eyes and by a smaller dog that be-
longs to a man he does not like any how;
when his money goes to Canada with the
friend who persuaded him to invest 1T
then's when a man should laugh. Then is
when he should take the medicine Of a
merry heart-and Just when he wont!
Laughing Not Natural.
ooh, but you say 1t wouldn't be natural.
Let me tell you that there is no such thing
as natural laughter; no such thing in this
world as natural humor. You didn't have
to teach your children to cry, but you did
have to teach them to laugh. When they
were twenty-seven SECONDS old they could
rouse the neighborhood, but you had to sit
up nights teaching those same children to
laugh. Now we have your word for 1t that
yours are the brightest children on earth
particularly II you have Just one children
but IL has taken you hours to coax one
gummy, vacant little smile across each
dimpled face. And when you did IT your
wife wrote It all down in that wonderful
baby book, underscoring that day as the
one on which baby learned to smile. Five
years later that same child will have to
learn to smile when 1t suffers physically.
And twenty-five years after that II will
have to learn, particularly IL 1t be a woman,
to smile when its heart is heavy with grief.
She will have to smile right through her
tears-and the sweetest, most beautiful
laughter in the world is the laughter that
shines through a woman's tears.
There was a time when suffering was
the fun OF the world. The Indian who
WOuluu I even bmlle at Iu6 luuul6bL lulnB
ever said would laugh fendishly as he tor
tured a foe. Our humor is less brutal now.
We are improving.
Some Old Jokes.
but our Jokes are not new. There are
no new jokes. We have good authority,
you know, for believing that there were
just seven original jokes, and that from
these all the other jokes in the world were
.attarnad Y don't LnnW Uhich aayan fhav
were, but 1 wouldn't be surprised If they
are among those / use. / have some that
/ believe are old enough to have beensthe
originals.
The man who has the most trouble in
this world has the greatest occasion to
laugh. For instance, l went back to Greene
county, Pennsylvania, where / used to be
born. and with unspoken protest spent all
Of one bitter cold night in an old-fashioned
spare bedroom. The house was about as
| big az Rhode Island and that bedroom was
four counties northwest OF where the fire
was. / had no light and the bed was the
: last thing l struck. 1t was eleven feet high
!. built like a haystack, and the only thin
n that kept me from freezing was my constan
wrestling with the bed covers. Now tina
was funny. You are laughing at It. AM
yet right then when l had such an ar
3 rangement for my own special amusemen
: and private entertainment, l didn't laugl
Q a bit. Indeed, l never laugh in spare bed
. rooms, and l think l have slept in 95 pc
cent of all those in this country. i Away
wonder whose was the last corpse laid on
there, and sometimes l am willing t
change places with the man, no matter wha
kind OF a life he may have led.
"As to worry! Everybody has to WORRY
N some, and there is, no cure in this worlC
for worrying except just to quit worrying
! Remember this as the best OF my lectures
That there are two days in every weel
I; when 1 will not worry for anything or any
body. One is yesterday, which has passe
out Of my life forever and with which / nov
" have nothing to do. The other is tomorrow
which is Just as remote from me as yes
terday. Half the troubles OF this world ar
II those OF yesterday; the other half ar
! those OF tomorrow"
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" Marriage licenses were issued yesterda,
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