Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-31
BE CHEERFUL MINDED.
Much of Success in Life Depends or the
Way in Which We Take Hold
OF ThinpS.

Bulwer Lytton declared that. If there
is virtue in the world at which We
should aim it is cheerfulness."
No wiser axiom could be uttered.
Without cheerfulness life would he one
eternal grind, with naught to tighten it,
burdens ard brighten its devious path
ways.
Cheerfulness is the product of tempcra-
ment, physical conditions and cultivation.
scientists have undertaken to locate ii in
the human body; they insist it is Il quail
ty of mind and heart. People are spoken
Of as being cheerful and ight-hearted,
cheerful minded, as having "a cheerful
disposition" or as being "cheerloss and
heaven-born quality of cheerfulness are
not easily affected by bodily ills or adj
versities; to them there is ever a silver
lining to every cloud. They above at
others are the dispensers of happiness.
cheerful face like the sunshine ban
ishes the storm clouds. A CHEEKY smile is
a benediction that unconsciously drives
away the frOwns of the angry or de-
pressed. 1t is not because the posSeSSor
of a cheerful disposition always says the
wisest and tenderest things it is the tone
and manner in which one speaks. the
expression Of the eyes which penetrates
to the soul drives away cares and fears
Hospital and prison attendants have
told some touching stories of the effect
of cheerful visitors upon patients and
prisoners. Often inmates of these inSti-
tutlOns are so gloomy and depressed that
it seems impossible to arouse them. Per-
haps unannOunced some good angel
comes in, passes up and down the aisleS,
inquiring after the health and welfare Of
each unfortunate, graciOusly extending
hand of greeting, or uttering few words
of encouragement and good wishes,
which act like a balm to their suffering
souls and bodies, encouraging them 10
make new resolves and efforts to recover
from disease or reform il they have COM
mitted crime.
No matter what position people oc-
cupy in life, much of their success de-
Ponds upon the cheerfulness with which
they take hold of their duties. The
churliSh servant is unsatisfactory, no
matter with what precision and dispatch
the work may be done. If, on the con-
trary, an employe is always bright and
CHEEKY, innumerable deficiencies will ~
excused and overlooked.
A mOrOse, disobliging tradesman has
few customers that cannot be supplied
with their wants elsewhere. The bust
ness man who starts with gloomy fore
bodings and cheerleSs cOuntenance win
rarely succeed because he adyertises his
want of confidence in himself by his
melancholy face and depressed spirits.
OF all people, however, the wife and
the mother should be cheerful; the happ.-
ness of the husband and the children de
ponds upon her. If she is low spirited
and melancholy, how can the husband
come to her for sympathy and encourage
ment III his business worries! lie looks
TO her for inspiration in all his under
takings. They may sometimes be very
haraSslng, and he may he tried almost
to desperation, and if he must go home
to Il wife whose face is without smiles,
and who is gloomy and spiritless, he is
all the more depressed. Whereas. il she
IS merry and bright and insists that the
worries he has are triyialitieS and that
they are sure TO adjust themselves to his
hiking or TO vanish altogether, nine times
out OF ten before he is really aware ot
the fact he has forgotten them or they
have dWindled into inSigniicancC. The
mountains that despair builds up by
brooding over mole hills can best be re-
moved by cheerfuneSs. Many Il case IT
melanchOla has developed in both men
and women through indulgence in gloomy
thoughts and a yielding to low spirits
and Insignificant physical indisposit'on.
Some persons give way to grief over the
death of loved one to the extent Of
altogether neglecting the living. They
sometimes profess great faith in God.
1hey know ali must die, and yet they act
as if they had no hope beyond the grave.
They distress all with whom they come
in contact and afiict their families by
their fearful eyes, cheefless and woebl-
gone faces
Mothers should remember that their
children are destined to become acGuaiut-
ed with grief soon enough in life and
they shrould never allow them to see
signs of sorrow and trouble in their faces.
They should teach them the vital impor-
lance of cheerfulness by never varying
happiness and amicable disposition. How
many little ones have first learned there
were clouds as well as sunshine by look
ing up into the fearful eyes Of their
mother. and. though unable to divine the
meaning Of her trouble, have climbed Up
TO kiss away her tears, and doubtless
wonder what they meant.
No duty is more obligatory than that
of cheerfulness. what the sun is 80
nature. are the cheerful persons in the
house and by the wayside Mrs. John
A. Logan in Detroit Free Press.