The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1904-01-28

able failures in life. Business men
are learning that worrying and fret
ting sap up their energies and incap
acitate them from doing their best
work. Women everywhere are dis
covering that these enemies Of their
happiness are also beauty-killers, that
they leave their hideous lines in pre-
maturely old faces and forms. Heads
of great establishments are discover.
ing that employees will do great deal
more work and do it better, under
bright, cheerful conditions. They
drd that good cheer is a producer,
great increaser of force. of energy,
Of time, because 1t has a powerful re-
action upon health and spirits. BY
actual test it has been found that ne
groes Grating peaches will do more in
day IL a band Of music plays all the
time and they are encouraged to sing
as they work. Bands are now a part
Of the equipment of large peach or
chards.
The first prize at flower show was
once taken by pale little girl who
lived in dark gloomy court in the
London slums. The judges asked her
how she could grow such a beautiful
plant in such a dingy, dismal place.
She replied that little sunlight came
into the court, and as soon as it came
10 the morning she put the flower
near it, and as 1T moved she moved
the flower, so that she kept 1t in the
sunlight all day. This was the secret
of the plants beauty and fragrance.
1t had been kept ia the sunlight.
The most successful men are the
most optimistic when misfortune as
sails them. They keep their business
in any ray OF sunlight they can find,
and if they can't find one, they ina
gine one. Pessimism leads TO failure:
it is no part Of success. Learn to
talk up, not down; avoid people who
are always saying that everything is
going TO the dogs. Do not talk hard
times. | never knew man to be
very successful who was always talk
ing about business being bad and
money tight. Times are always hard
for the grumbler, for those who are
IN the pessimistic rut. Success is
delicate plant, and requires encour-
agemeut and sunshine. 1t will not
thrive in an atmosphere OF gloom or
melancholy. The world likes sunny,
hopeful, buoyant characters; it shuns
lugubrious prophets who see only fail
ure and disaster everywhere. The
hopeful, cheerful men and women
who see success and longevity in their
careers are always in demand, always
popular.
Resolve that you will turn the
water of life into wine. We all know
remarkable people who have this
wonderful faculty. Emerson's smile
was unfOrgetable. 1t was perpetual
benediction to all who knew him or
even saw him. Nothing will supply
the want OF sunshine to the peach"
he once said, "and to make knowledge
valuable you must have the cheerful
ness Of wisdom. Blessed are the
happiness makers; they carry volumes
OF manhood; their presence is sun
shine; their coming changes our cli-
mate; they oil the bearings Of life;
their shadows always fall behind
them; they make right living easy"
Some people turn everything they
touch into vinegar, others into honey.
There is something in the mechanism
Of some minds which seems to trans
mute the most somber hues into the
most gorgeous tints. Their very
presence is tonic which invigOrates
the whole system. Their very coming
into the home seems like the coming
OF the sun after long, dark, arctic
night. Their smile acts upon one like
magic, and dispels all the fog and
damp Of gloom and despair. They
unlock the tongue, and one speaks In
their presence with the gift Of proph-
ecy. These people are health promo
ters; they are death 20 dyspepsia and
melancholy. Others influence US in
just the opposite way. Their very
presence depresses; one feels cold
while in their company. |
Everything about them is chilly ana |
forbidding; they dry up thought; their
sarcasm and irony repel. They are
no where welcome, and their atmo-
sphere foredooms to failure every
thing they undertake in which they |
must influence others. On the other
hand, cheerful disposition, happy
is the master key that
more secrets, more riches,
more success, than anything else.
The sunny soul does not need letters
Of recommendation or introduction;
all doors fly open to him; he is well
come everywhere. A sunny temper
is a tailisman more powerful than
wealth, more precious than rubies.
It is "an aroma whose fragrance fills
the air with the odor Of paradise"