New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
FOE TO PoIsoNs OF BODY.

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ter play in our physical economy that We
fan i'll when they fall silent, and we grow
strong as they increase. Even grin and a
gsgIe serve their purpose. They lubricate
muscles that require this exercise and tone
up blood corpuscles that are vivified by real
laughter With the smile as an expression
of love of happiness. of confidence, of ap-
probation. Of sympathy, of beguilemeut and
even of treachery, we are familiar. but few
of us are acquainted with the smile as an
sctive chemical agent. as necessary in our
functional activities as our lungs and heart.
Our bodies are chemical laboratories, in
which are compounded toxins of deadly
poisons and their anti-toxins. If enough
of the latter are not supplied the former
produce illness and death. The emotion Of
anger induces muscular contractonS and ef
tests poisonous changes in blood corpuscleS
sufficient to cause temporary illness. symp-
toms of prcstration, palpitation and head
ache; often prolonged impairment of health,
and sometimes immediate death. Worry
also produces active poison in the sys-
TEN and disturbance of the nerves. Jeal-
ousy and hatred create two of the most
violent poisons known to tho human sys-
tenn and so do fear and fatigue.
No chemist can counteract the effect of
make its anttoxin. The body requires
smiles and laughter to form wholesome
conditions in the blood which will Offset
If they do not expel. those poisons cngea-
oered by other emotions and causes. The
smile is as real an antidote to poison cre-
ated in the blood as cream is to certain
deadly acids received into the stomach,
and the former is far more potent, be-
cause its effects are more far-reaching.
Laughter manufactures little health-vibrat-
ing elobules In the laboratory of the blood
faster than emotional posons and injurious
conditions can destroy the health.
Does the woman who never smiles know
the joy Of bouyaut health? Does the man
who never laughs realize what is meant by
good digestion and a glow of real cr-
joyment?
Although the chemical laboratory is In
the blood. its directing energies lie in the
brain. These may, it they like, Guild up
or destroy; pronounce health or Illness life
or death. according as they elect to dis
pense worry. jealousy. envy, ill temper, con-
teutment. laughter or illuminating smiles.
Physicians bid patients 10 keep the corners
OF their lips ctrled upward, maintaining
that it is impossible for melancholy aud
depressing thoughts to retain ascendency
II person who preserves this position of
the lips. Physicians, too demand a pleas
ant demeanor. and they seek smiles in the
nurses TO whom they intrust patients. well
knowing the curative value O. a smile.
Sick persons are WONDERFULLY influenced
by smile, and are known to EXPIRES,
sense of well-beins and actually to show
immediate Improvement when the attend
ing physician has brought a pleasant smile
TO the bedside and left behind him an at.
mosphere of cheer. Science teaches us TO
smile for the sake of health; kindness
prompts us to smile for the cheer OF 9TH
ers: vanity urges us to smile that We may
win homage; the school for smiles instructs
in the art of smiling for purely commercial
motives and for almost purely selfish ends
Admonishes this school: "Snile to lure a
rich wife, smile TO obtain preferment I'm
politics or business, smile TO obtain a raise
I'm salary. smile to win popularity In So
ciety, smile to encompass bequests in Wills
smile TO induce a customer to buy some
thing not desired or not worth having, and
smile to iuveigle secrets that may be put
TO personal account"
Many varieties OF smiles are taught in
this modern school. "If." says its precept-
ress in effect. ''the Hindu hate his enc
my TO death, why may not we smile a
man into emptyins his pocketbook for our
benefit"
One of the most valuable commercial as
sets we possess lies in the ability 10 SMILE
With this art we charm the world capture
success, improve our blood circulation and
health and keep old age at bay. Schools
now help us 90 do this. The commercial
smile plays as important part In our
progress moneyward as the irrepressible
smile of good humor does in attracting
friendships and the tender smile Of affec.
ton does In ccmentinS love.