The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-21
STILL RAINS, But
OPTIMIST SMILE
IS WATERPROOF
II Yours Is Genuine a Little Wet
Weather Won't Worry
You.
IT'S THE ACID TEST OF
YOUR FITNESS TO JOIN
Don't Stand Back, but Fall in
Line, for the Optimist Clubs
One Best Bet.
Is your smile on straight?

Is your smile on straight?
Don't let { little rain wash it off.
Rain is the weather mans acid test
for an optimist. If yours is genuine
1t will be freshened and invigorated
by the showers.
An Optimist Club smile is water
proof, anyway. If you miss yours
now, you can know that it did not start
from the inside work out. Begin
thinking a smile and it will get to the
surface.
Remember how easy it is for the
farmers and gardeners to smile today.
The patter of the raindrops spells
prosperity for them. 1t spells it for
you, too, if you think ahead a little.
Optimism was invented on a rainy
day. When Jupiter Pluvius tried to even
up on an old grudge by catching the
founder of the w|orld-old and world
wide optimist club out in a shower
with a e straw hat and without an
umbrella, he got in return a dazzling
smile hat made him dizzy. He felt
so good after that hat he begged to
become h second optimist, and since
then the rain has been given as a bless
ing.
The members of the Optimist Club.
whose myriad letters of application
nave already been received and re-
corded, do not need this advice so
much. The good cheer currents began
to go out over the invisible wires to
them from all the other members and
back again the very minute their
names were recorded on the great shin
ing roster of the Optimist Club.
The letters which came to the OPP
timist Editor of THE EVENING STAR
today from would-b members showed
that the sun was shining in their
hearts and the silver lining showing
through the rain and it made said rain
clouds look like p~eek-a-boo waists of
some dark washable material.
It's the doubters who are yet timidly
wavering on the wrong side of the
border in the Land of 1 told you so"
that we want to talk to particularly.
It's only a step across and you'll never
wan to go back. Don't wait until to-
morrow. m of the Optimist Club
make today the foundation for II
brighter future.
A wise optimist has told you in his
letter of application to the Optimist
Club that optimism is Good Bust
ness" No n knows that so well as
successful business men. such men
form the backbone of the Optimist
Club.
But optimism is more than good
business. 1t is good luck. long life and
prosperity.
Real members of the club do not
need to talk optimism much usually;
they radiate it. Just as well on the.
dark days, perhaps. to let the word
tinkle and Jingle around in your con-
versation. Jingle's a good jolly word
and may help some one of the doubters
and waverers. They need help today
more than they will tomorrow, when
the sun Is out.
Remember, you who have not yet
signed your application blanks, that the
combined membership of the Optimist
Club is waiting to greet you with a
smile.
A committee is perfecting arrange
ments for the grand demonstration of
the Optimist Club, which is scheduled
for the near future. Don't whit and be
one of those ON the outside looking IN
on that happy occasion.
some More Optimist Letters.
Read how some of the applicants for
membership say they feel about it:
To the Optimist Editor:
I am an optimist because 1 can't help
it. one of my faults is, 1 am always
smiling. 1t rs natural, and my friends
say it is a good fault. I would be very
dreary if 1 could not smile. To smile
.as-a- - - c.
l would like to become a member of the
Optimist Club.
MRS. NJ. j. CULLEN.
To the Optimist Editor:
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