Bisbee daily review., 1905-03-12

or philanthropic fun. A twinkle il
 the eye is sufficient sometimes, whel
 it seems as if fun was just the foan
 on the top of happiness and if vol
 look below you will find happiness
 like Truth, at the bottom of the we'll
 though l confess I never could under
 stand that situation. 1 assent that tn,
 habit of being happy may be acquir
 ed, and vice versa, the habit may b'
 acquired of looking on the dark sid,
 and wearing the attitude of discon
 tent, of taking gloomy views of life and surroundings.
 The disposition to enjoy and make
 the most of everything that presents itself is, to young people, one of the best boons that life can give, for il
 cultivates the appreciation of little
 things to make joy in their lives whereas those who wait for big things
 most often never get the chance tc
 have fun at all and do not know il
 when they see it. Some one says
 People put off the attitude of pleas
 ure as they put off their finery, and
 don their work a-day minds as they
 don their work-a-day clothes" Now
 l say that cheerfulness is an object
 in itself, that it tends to preserve
 youth and health and prolong life. So,
 among the many fads that are added
 to the curriculum in these days let
 us recommend the Educational Depart.
 ment to propose Teaching the chil.
 dren to be happy in way that will
 he habit for all their future lives. ''
 To take short views, to look out for fun whatever it is, in short to look on the bright side. Brightside-Ah! that word recalls the day when we of the Committee of Investigation went to the old BrightSide Home before we handed over the S100.00 the Depart. ment had voted-and we sat in the bright Colorado sunshine in the back yard, on chairs rescued from the fire-some three legged with no back to speak of. The blackened ruins of the old Home destroyed by fire all around us, and the clouds of sulphur fumigating the boys and the furniture pouring from the doors and the win dows, preparatory to moving into the new home that afternoon-fumigat us as well as the boys. The ragged, sooty-faced army of little urchins, buttony in front and baggy behind, 40 of them drawn up in front of us, looking at us curiously, glad to ans wer greetings and offering to shake hands (for once was glad my gloves were black) and I found myself won- dering what there was in that sad situation to develop any fun, when one of the boys said to me, Now I know you I'll be sure to shake hands with you every time 1 meet you on the street." and I laughed out, Why SO you shall, my boy. and I'll shake hands with you every time" It has 'ome to be true, but my question had answered itself. In the yibratory inn pulse which ones whole being re- ,eives from a good laugh we are con 'cious to response to something sweet and gracious and true and up. fitting both inside and outside of us. t sets life to a new key for whole lay, perhaps, and we listen to the FOX humana of the universe in a major, not a minor vox humana key. A chance word or a little crookedness of diction will often change our mood Ii we are alive to it, and ready to meet it. When we remember the cheerful way in which the Snipestown Librarian transformed Burton's Anat. omy of Melancholy, into Burt on Ana and Tommy's melon cholic" which was recommended to Sam Slick as medical work during the cholera season-'no family with chit lren should be without it." When we recall the story of the crying child m the theatre and the quick wit of iarrick appearing before the curtain with his courteous bow, Unless the play is stopped the child cannot possi. 1 ply go on" and the child's sudden l exit from the laughing audience, | When we read of the corner grocery | with the sign, Families supplied I, lere, and the entrance of a blushing f ''I will take a wife and wo children" then we realize how a | title crookedness of diction, or what | Mrs. Malaprop calls "a nice derange- nent of epitaphs," discovers our jocu. ar vein to us and the surprise of it | warns our hearts. By what irony of ] idaptation can we account for the . act that, as physicians tell us, we lave muscles to use when we smile md only one with which to frown. ! mould we not multiply our smiles | ines, or is it so difficult to smile that | { takes times the power, and we deserve times more credit for smil. ng at all? Certainly it is reckoned n the inverse ratio, and even the soentgen x Ray will not enable us 0 see through it, for it has tied us n the same knot with the fact that he man who makes all the jokes for he newspaper is said to be subject O melancholia-and in his own family 5 Knight of the Rueful countenance, where his wife takes the vice versa ide of him and is to be pitied accord. ngly. Poets call this the poetic tenn erament, and say,
 Chords that swell the sweetest pleas
 ure,
 'hril the deepest notes of woe"