The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-05-18
LAUGH
AND GET
WELL
0riSOn Sweet Marden,
Editor of Success
Has an Idea
II You Suffer LaughI If you
Sorrow Laugh! Grin for a
Corn and go Into EcStacieS
Over NeuraIglc TwingeS

DR. orison Sweet Marden, editor OF
Success, has formulated a new theory
land perhaps started new fad. He has
become a convert to the laughter
treatment and, illustrating his new
ideas, MARBLES thus:
A story is told Of a monkey that
got into a room where n man was dy.
ing from a gathering in the throat,
which the doctor did not dare to lance
for fear OF killing him The monkey
stole up to the bed, and. seeing the
friends wiping away their tears. stood
up and with a most woe bcgore face.
began to wipe imaginary tears from his
own eyes. The patient looked up. saw
the monkey, and laughed so heartily
that he broke the swelling in his
throat, and recovered at once.
We know OF many patients getting
well by adopting tho" laughter treat.
ment We know of a nervous invalid
who was induced 20 try this. She read
all the funny books She could find,
conned the funny wceklies. and when
she could find nothing else TO laugh at
laughed at herself for laughing. In a
month she began to feel stronger. and
in little while she was entirely
cured.
Laugh and grow fat" is more than
a cant phrase; n has a physiological
truth for a basis. a depressed mind
prevents the free action OF the dia.
phragm and the expansion OF the
chest Il stops the secretions OF the
body, hinders digestion. prevents cir.
culation OF the blood In the brain and
deranges all the functions of the body. /
Scrofula and consumption often fol. |
low protracted depression OF the
mind. The fatal murmur" that Is
heard in the upper lobes OF the lungs
In the first stages of consumption or |
ten follows depressed spirits after
some great misfortune or sorrow
Victims OF suicide are almost always
in a depressed state from exhausted
loss OF nervous energy. dys-
pepsia, worry, anxiety. trouble or
grief.
Il will be seen that here Is wide [
field OF psychical research opened by
this astute editor Il provides such a
simple. such a handy remedy and that,
too. all contained within the subject.
II you have an acute case OF tooth
ache, don't seek the dentist or drug
gist, but grin and bear il, or go a
step further, laugh and cure II. When
your S-year-old kid gets an overdose of
green fruit don't try massage. medi.
cine. or even Christian Science
tickle his feet with a straw. The edl-
tor OF success says that is an unfail.
Ing remedy. and the editor OF Success
ought to know Still II opens up a
wide field for discursive examination.
Hereafter when this latest revelation
OF the occult gets its work In. We will
have to learn to gauge our friends BY
the degree OF pleasure depicted In
their countenanees. A mild grin wilt
mean my fayorite corn is busy this
and am simply treating IL:
a broad smile will indicate have
been out with the boys last night. and
am feeling pretty well myself this
morning; while frequent and hilarious
outbursts OF laughter, as the subject
seeks his once, wnl let his friends
know he has the eolio, appendicitis,
headache, neuralgia, rheumatism or
some similar delight. and is simply
treating Il on the rational plan. Here
after when your friend scowls at YOU
aud looks savage, you may know he
is feeling pretty good, and ask him for
the loan OF ten-but that smile. that
laugh. that hilarious and spasmodic
that doubles him IN in
spasms OF seeming ioyousness. shall
be a sign and token to be wary. sthl
there may be nothing in Il.
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