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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
The Power of Cheerfulncss.

Even forced Cheerfulness is worth some
thing. perhaps not Woodworking a all IL il
is pure affectation. But a cheerful manner
though the heart he sad helps other people
and is one of those near" commodities in
business that keep it going
Cheerfulness and hopefulness and deadly
determination helped such a very rraiI little
woman as Harriet Beecher Stowe. the mother
of a large family, and with all sorts Of dones-
tic duties 10 attend to. TO make fortune
with her pen. md there have been miracles
worked in other women's lives by this power
OF cheerfulness.
Cheerfulness, then. promotes both ply steal
and mental health. 1t brings fortune and
happiness. 1t brings friends. 1t brings So
cial advancement, business success. and best
of all. peace-peaCe Of mind and security
1t is the antithesis of worry
II ChcerfuIness did no more than promote
digestion and consequently health it would
be worth cultivatng. There are proverbs
a-many which prove that it is a great medi-
cine. II is a medicine which YOU can get
at Your own apothecary shop though YOU
sometimes get it along with Grugs Much Of
the success of some bedside physicians is due
TO the CHEEKY breezy power they carry into
1t is no new idea. this curative and pre-
sentative power OF cheerfulness9 Montaigne
in one of Ids essays tells how when youth
he happened to be visiting a rich old man
who was an invalid, when a great physician
came to see this patient. When the great
doctor saw Montaigne he told the old man
that the best means for his recovery was to
take delight in the young mans company,
e that fixing his eyes upon the freshness Of
my face" says Montague and setting his
thoughts upon the joility and vigor where
with my youthful age did then flourish, and
filling all the senses with my hourishing
estate, his hebitude might thereby be amend.
ed and his health recovered"
Old people love cheerful faces and children
need them. One has but to read what hap
pened to little Paul Dombey. to see what the
effect Of a cheerful nurse was and then what
was the effect under the gloomiest of the
gloomy.
The world recognizes all these facts but
dimly. Publishers send out Catch Words
OF Cheer" We set apart a season of good
cheer, which is a sort of attempt to hoard
sunshine and exhaust ourselves spending il
all in a lump. Glittering hard gold is stored
that way in the earth, but the gold of human
nature should be like the sun in its shining.
1t may not SHINE all the time, but the day
always comes around, which is proof positive
that It has not become a frozen ball.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

Suppose that you were going to invent a
flying machine with the idea Of making
money. No doubt you have many ideas OF
your own as to what flying machine should
be. This is well and good, but don't let
them run away with your business instincts.
If you intend to make your ideas CONNER
cIal. use them in a machine as nearly as
possible like a standard product. so that
when you build it you know it will fly. Don I
try radical things unless you, or your
wealthy hacker, have lots of money. The
same is true Of any other device. Work
practically. Use your brains for more than
just mechanical devices and the result will
be a commercial proposition.
Experimenting costs money and lots of it.
The idea the public has that small ideas
are more remunerative than big ones-the
safety pin being cited as one-has its basis
in the fact that a small device. selling for
little, and handled by thousands Of storS
and shops. is more easily placed and sold.
II one invents an Improvement in a big
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Poems About Great Men.

I wrote Il poem on the death of Gladstone,
that had fair success, especially in north
Wales. where the statesman was much adj
mired. The Rev. Stephen Drew who was
sOn-In-law TO Gladstone. expressed approval
and Lord Gladstone, now in South Africa.
has a copy.
l knew Lord BeacOnsfield very we'll, and
listened to his first speech in the house of
peers When he died ] went into coffee
hOUse-always the resort of genius. from
Shakespeare downwards - and begged for
some paper to write on. The kindly girl who
brought my cup of coffee had torn some pages
out of an old rent book. intended more for
commerce than compositions. Many Gus
toners came in. and l heard some peculiar
language round me, while the lines flowed
very easily, until l had filled every page.
This was wEtten in pencil. but l went to the
house of an artist and l was allowed to
transcribe my verses in ink. I read them to
the artist in his studio, and he prophesied
success. They were printed, and took a
When | got back to my room the landlord told
me that several statiOners had come for
copies, as the shops which 1 supplied in~the
morning soon sold out every copy.
Ny chief critics have been Welsh, for in
Wales. when you travel you meet with poets
everywhere. and they celebrate their own
events. / wrote some local poems in Wales
and canvassed with them. l have held tells
of thousands of interviews over the land.
and can say. what few writer's can say. that
a million copies of verses written by me are
spread about the world
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False Value on Inven tions.

Most inventors have in the fist place an en-
Jared and biased idea OF the value OF their
inventions. thinking OF tho values in
thousands OF dollars. judging from what they
have read and any man who would offer them
an amount in hundreds would be regarded
with contempt
So things go for while. The inventor be-
comes discouraged. and yet more than ever
enthused by his idea. gets anxious to see
it on the market. So anxious. in fact. that
as a rule at this stage he will do almost any,
thing TO float his proposition. He often takes
stock In payment.
Later, when he thinks all is going fine. he
wakes up to find himself on the outside. A
ceverer business man or promoter has his
device and is making money with it, The
inventor is out in the cold. \ young man in
vented an important Improvement on air
brakes. 1t was a good device. and GRABBED
the train brake system to be recharged while
the brakes were set.
A certain firm, according to reports which
came out later offered him $50 Ooa for the
patents, an unusual thing, and if he had
known it. great opportunity. Some pro-
meters on the side discovered the value of
the scheme. got hold of the inventor, and
promised him 100000 worth of stock in a
concern to manufacture the device The
young inventor swallowed the bait turned
down the cash offer took the stock certifi-
Gates. and waited for real money
1t Is needless TO say he Is still waiting
However, If you have an invention that you
are sure is marketable and can be made at
a profit, develop 1t until 1t is perfect, then
offer it to some firm that can handle it.
But first of all study business!
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Writes for Magazines.

Electricity IS a speciality with teachers Of
physical science and another professor de-
votes his spare time to proving around look
ing for all kinds of electrical information.
When he plans vacation trip ne includes
some power houses in his itinerary. The re-
suits are brief articles which he submits to
electrical and engineering journals. When
he can, he secures photographs to illustrate
his text During the school year little checks
drop in like presents, the rate of payment
being usually s. per thousand words due
a month after publication. An extra amount
is often paid for the photos.
drummer " for a hardware house sells
vacuum cleaners as side line" After his
regular appointments are over he frequently
has an hour or two to spare before train
time and these last minutes he spends can
wasting for orders. He always keeps sew
eral machines at his home for prompt ship
ment and advertises these for sale in his
home papers. His wife demonstrates the
cleaner in her home to all callers g rounded
up by the local ads"
A high school principal who was formerly
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

nigh speed newspaper press OF a linotype
machine, the idea may be just valuable,
but there are only few firms in the market
who could use such device. and il they fai!
to see its value and refuse to take it up, your
work is for nothing. If they do, knowing
they control the field, the chances are against
Your getting as good a deal from them as
from firms who have more competition.
There i a great field for one who can in
vent a noiselcss typewriter or even a device
which will lessen the noise OF the present
ones, vet q typewriter device of any kind
is Of little use unless it can be attached to
standard design typewriter with few
changes.
Think of the money made by adding ma
chimes Of late years; yet the story goes that
the inventor of the first one died poor. II
that he so, as is probable ii may we'll have
hecn the fault of the inventor in that he
lacked the genius to market the product of
his own brain.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

rendered and not from desire to patronize
1 shall try to realize that the gift of work
Is the best gift In the world. that the ability
to labor is the keynote to success, and that
to work and to plan and to strive and to
love is life.
shall endeavor to give every one a square
deal. whether he is my boss, the IMAM
higher up" who expects only service from
me, or whether he is the I" man lower down -
who looks to me for example and expert
ence-
shall try not to be envious and discon-
tented, realizing that 1 have my own life
to carve out for myself. and that anything Is
within my grasp IL work instead Of wish and
plan instead of envy.
And shall try to remember that each day
is new day. and that New Years day Is
Just a symbol OF the days to come. each one
Of which Is new. and that resolutions are one
Of the few things that may be mended again
as good as new
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Merchant Has Side Line.

4 merchant in rented store building felt
insecure of his tenure. He secured the secre-
taryship of the loan and building association
in his town and added 5000 year to his
income. Another similar position represent
ing the electric light company of a nearby
city. then extending it's service to the smaller
community, Melted him SD a month addi-
tiOnal. The earnings OF the store supported
the merchants growing family and the extra
earnings. put religiously aside. ultimately
provided him with a store building of his
own.
Ministers. ground down by small salaries
are now Crowding the chautauqua lecture
platforms The training in public speaking,
If one has broad outlook on life prepares
him for the supplementary profession.
grocer's clerk is " camera fend." On
holidays and Sundays he goes from house
to house In his neighborhood taking views
His evenings are made profitable in the dark
room
The prize boosters of one town belong to
an insurance solicitor. He has bought a
cottage far enough out to make a small
yard possible and keeps about seventy high
bred fowls. AS he does not raise them for
potpies but the fowls for breeding and uses
the eggs for Matching. they bring him fancy
prices. A few chickens thus managed bring
in more money and require less labor and less
feed than the much larger focks of mongrels
that most chicken raisers content themselves
with.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

may be in itself, II the man who con-
ce!ved the idea does not know how TO market
it he Will seldom realize from it. The patent
which are worthless to the inventor because
Of his lack or business sense. Many devices
AL but worthless have made fortunes for the
inventors because OF their knOwl' dee OF how
20 place their ideas before the public in COM
merciai form.
their fortune is made; an idea far from true
as a patent in Itself only keeps others from
making anything similar-not always sue
ceeding even in that II the other tlrm happens
to have more money-and is rarely worth
anything in itself except as a promoting prop
ositon.
EGison's remarkable rise was due to his
business ability far more than to hisinventive
genius and if YOU analyze his present inve Mt
ing system-for he works by systcm-yOu
will see in it a very clever Cevice of a business
man for getting business results.
There Is lite waste in Edison's plan.
Every experiment leads to something. and
before he proceeds to develop a new device
he puts the one at hand on paying basis.
Too many inventors do not use their minds
practically in the way they create an inven-
ton, being TOO anxious to create and use
their own ideas entirely, whereas by adapting
and adopting the best ideas OF others before
them they, may save thousands o. dollars OF
money in experimenting.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

Queen Victoria, reproduced 1t, and on
my memorial card there was the royal face
on one side and the poem on the other.
Thousands of people who bought this poem
wanted to see the royal letter. with its purple
mourning which 1 received from Bucking-
ham palace, and 1 wore it out showing it.
That letter was worth pounds to me- for
there is a profound regard for royalty over
Great Britain.
l afterwards celebrated our late king 5
coronation in verse, and l also wrote lines
on his death. These were we'll patronized
and still sell. At Windsor castle the sup
port given my penny poem on Edward VII
was enough to make any poet proud, and
during the days l was about the castle and
its parks and gardens the royal servants
were continually buying. one coming out
one day for twelve copies.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Business and Genius Combined by
Author Who Sold Million Poems.
CNxNTN RDEW
Sv EDWIN DREW.
IEngland's Rowing Rhymer. ]

- EW poets can boast Of selling over a
- million penny poems. l have written
the poems myself and sold them over
Great Britain for many years.
To write the poems is one thing-to
sell them is another. The two faculties are
not always combined. but nature was kind
in giving me fair power in both depart
ments. The word million " is easily used.
but it's comprehension is not an everyday
affair. The work Of selling a million occu-
pied many years with me, and / have had
the assistance of &" the trade" too. for f a
poem happened to take, then stationers and
news agents would sell it, and, if each ship
sold few, then some thousands of copies
would be sold; and | have seen one of ny
pieces make a hole in 100000 This meant
good times. l had written rhymes from
early years, and some editors had used set
or two of verses, hut beyond the glory Of
print, and some friendly praises, there was
small reward. and the banking accoun; Of
which l dreamt-snd still dream-could not
be opened. So. in my mdteens. | spoke %
some friends. showed them my last piec,,
asked if they would patronize me if l had
the verse printed. and. receiving promises II
support, l gave the local printer the great
order for 300 copies.
As soon as my first publication was ready
friends were supplied, and ] resolved 20
canvass the district ! sold out and another
edition was ordered. This little effort was
to lead to greater things and wider wander
ings. for l have " practically " worked these
islands and my verses are spread univer-
sally after over forty years application, ard
we'll might be known as Britain's Rowing
Rhymer'
My own belief is that the people of Greae
Britain have love Of verse when it IS
brought to them, when they see " the poet
and when the price is low; for my belief in
the penny is infinite No other price has ever
served me much, and my regard for the
bronze coin is we'll founded.
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Earning Money con the Side";;
Many Opportunities for Hustlers.
Rv AVIS C.. VESTAI
By AVIS c.. VESTAL.

a physician. each winter instructs a ella:
of nurses who come to him for training. HI
predecessor in the school was a fine chemis
and was frequently employed Saturdays an,
during vacations by manufacturers who die
not need the regular services Of a chemist
Ultimately he became so much in deman
that he resigned his school work and en-
tered the field of commercial chemistry. e,
third principal has been studying law " o.
the side " for years and has been admitt,,
TO the bar. His summer vacations are nov
profitably given to legal work in his home
town.
y successful manual training teacher in
a large school is earning considerable extra
money writing illustrated articles for the
magazines. telling how to make furniture
at home.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
King Approved Poem.

When an overwhelming event like a royal
death or coronation stirs the nation YOU can
travel with the poem universally and sell
as well in the north as you can in the south.
Thus, with the jubilee OF Queen Victoria
did very well everywhere, and at her la
mented death. as Edward VII. graciousiy ap-
proved my poem on his lost mother, it had
a vast success; and as I was sufficiently
fortunate to get good copyright portrait OF
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Notes from World of Science.

The area OF Ireland is about equal to that
OF Lake Superior.
The oil wells Of the United States now in
operation number almost 10000.
The Mexican city OF Vera Cruz has doubled
in population in the last twenty years.
More than three-fourths OF the worlds
$500, 900 telephones are in North America.
In the first six months this year there were
1920 more deaths. than births in France.
Lukewarm water often viii revive wflted
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

flowers upon which cold water will have no
effect
Two electric street railway lines will be
placed in service in the ancient city of Pisa
this month.
The largest storage battery in the world Is
being constructed by a Baltimore electric
company for use in emergencies.
An international organization and equip
ment Of schools exhibition will be held at
ST Petersburg from April TO July.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31

- OONS so near the city? 1t scarcely
seemed possible, but investiga ton
proved it was true. An enterprisinG
barber, in a southern Iowa city Of
$1,000 people. found that the rural
population adjacent to the town counted more
than one coon to be taken for the trouble
Of the hunt. Real, furry, fine raccoOns they
were, living in the woods along the bluffs OF
the Mississippi on the Iowa side and in the
bottom lands &c bordering the sloughs OF
the river on its Illinois shore. This barber
had lived in the south and there learned the
sport and profit of coon hunting at night
He had brought his trained dogs north with
him and with their aid he was rapidly de-
popuIating the hidden haunts of the raccoons
Counting furs and flesh he earned enough in
a year to pay the rent Of his little cottage
on the edge of town.
A high school teacher Of physics supple
ments his salary by operating a stereopticon
in the class room on winter evenings. For
this he is paid two or three dollars extra.
This counts with a man who has 20 summer
salary. but who cannot sleep through the
long vacation and avoid GrOCers bills
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Cheerful Men Self-Suficent.

Another remark from this same source is
probably true Of a great many people. DR..
Holmes says: " l have been low spirited
and IistIess lately. and l notice I tell my
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
The Good Natured Crowd.


1t is as dreadful for a man not to be a bic
TO laugh upon occasion as it is for him not
to be able to shed tears when great grief
comes upon him. There is no grief like dry
eyed grief, and there is no life so dreary as
one without the saving grace of laughter.
An enormous crowd will 50 behave itself
that not single calamity will result from
the massing of so many people, if it but be
~ueerful; but should fear overtake it thou
sands would be trampIed under foot. " Such
a good nauIred crowd you never saw" was
the universal remark made nearly twenty
Years ago when hundreds OF thousands of
rcople-seven or eight-crowded into the
Worlds Fair grounds on a single day
When there was a person to almost every
foot of ground in one great area some one
commenced to run and everybody else had
to run, too. but every body laughed and there
ere no disasters
Laugh and grow fat is folk psychology
which has been reinforced by science. Pleas
ant feelings promote the flow OF the digestive
juices which is exactly the same thing as
saying that they get to work industriousIy
You can work far longer without exhaustion
if YOU are cheerful. Cneerfulness is to the
mind what fresh air is to the digestive sys-
tenn. We turn to Shakespeare and find. Your
merry heart goes all the day your sad tires
in a mile-a."
" Laugh and the world laughs with YOU
though put in verse. veritably took the world
by storm. II struck the universal chord OF
human sympathy and great was the applause.
We pay for " laughter holding both its
sides" by going to the play and by buying
the books Of Mark Twain. as we'll as the funny
magazines. otC.. and consider ii a good invest
ment. These things make US cheerful for
the time being. and a good laugh saves doc
tors bills.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, being both a hu-
mUrist and a good doctor. says in the " Auto
crat OF the Breakfast Table" The ludi-
crous has its place in the universe, it Is no.
human invention. but one OF the divine
ideas. illustrated in the practical jokes OF
kittens and monkeys long before Arts
tophanes and Shakespeare. How curious II Is
that we always consider solemnity and the
absence Of all gay surprises and encounter
of wits as essential to the idea OF the future
life of those men whom we thus deprive of
half their faculties ard then call blessed!
There are not a few who. even in this life
see to be preparing themselves for that
smileless eternity to which they look for
ward. by banishing all gayety from their
hearts and all joyousness from their ooun-
tenances. I meet one such in the street not
a person OF intelligence and
education. but who gives me land all that he
passes) such a rayless and chilling look Of
eCogniton-sometfing as II he were one Of
heavens assessors. come down to doom
every acquaintance he net-that have some
times begun TO sneeze on the spot and have
gone home with a violent cold. dating from
that instant l don't doubt he would cut his
Kittens tail off if he caught her playing with
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
How to Fill the Dinner Pail;
Luncheon for School Children.
By THYRA SAMTER.
By THYRA SAMTER.

VERE are a weeks menus suitable for
the dinner pail. They may be slight
ly altered and used in preparing
luncheons for school boys and girls,
too. although care should be taken not
to make them too large.
MONDAY.
Three sandwiches Of bread and butter.
Salad, prepared in a paper dish.
Cold meat. sliced and wrapped.
Ginger cookies.
TUESDAY
Baking powder biscuits. celery and meat
filled.
Two white bread sandwiches with jam.
Stuffed eggs. Orange.
WEDNESDAY.
Two plain sandwiches.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
Workers New Year, Resolutions

~ ECAUSE know must work, will
II try to do my work each day without
complaint doing II as well and as care
- fully as l can, whether the tasks are
large or small.
Because each week has seven days and but
one OF them is a day Of rest, shall try to
work earnestly on the six work days, not
Sinking on Monday because the day of rest
has Just passed. nor on Saturday because the
day Of rest Is nearly at hand. And on Sunday
/ shall try to be grateful because am able
to do my share Of work.
Each week I shall save e definite part Of
my salary. even II the amount is small
shall save It every week. even IL have to do
without some OF the small luxuries that seem
necessary. and I shall gave as much as I
can spare.
shall try to " cut out all indiscriminate
treating and tipping. Treating " Is not
way Of gaining friends. but often one method
Of losing them: shall tip only for service