The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-09
SMILE ALONG THE
WAY, SAYS FOLEY
North Dakota Poet Gives St.
Paul Reporter Secret to
Getting Things"
GRIN N BE
CHEERFUL" WINS
Given Splendid Mention of
Work as a Reader Before Z.
Appreciative Audience.

j. w. Foley stood on the rear end
or u street a yesterday afternoon,
n vainly searched his pockets for u
match, says the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
He couldn't. find one. Neither could
tho reporter.
Hey, conductor" called Mr.. Foley
IN that Whimsical Missouri Dakota
voice. have you a match in your
jeans?" ~
The reporter held his breath to
listen to the crushing Of the pre-
suinptuous one. But the conductor
was actually coming toward him,
pulling pockets inside put as he came,
only to be anticipated by three or four
men who thrust boxes into the verse
X hands. He conferred a dis
strange way, although he needed but
one match. Foley punched" cattle
three years on the western plains
which explains why one fire stick
was enough.
What did you do. or how, that
r maze t every ay, man OF On the tn rear of the car
wanted to know.
something else. but his words a few
minutes earlier were the key to the
mystery.
Remember that smile!" he had
said. Go to the world with a smile
most anything you ask. just grin and
be cheerful. That is enough. But 20
to the world with your chest puffed
out, and swagger up to the world, and
II Is likely to kick you down stairs.
Remember the smile!"
Smiles After Nap.
He had been routed from an after
n0nn nan a Shnrk finoo hoFo~n ~, ~.
man in search OF an Interview, and
had answered the knock smiling. The
man in search Of an interview appeals
to the world to know II arising from
sleep with a smile on ones face isn't
an Indication of an extraordinary
character. MI. Foley smiles almost AL
the time. however, SO he probably has
his own peculiar secret Of life.
It's just ! n knocking up against
he world and learning all the time
that makes humorists," he explained
when the reporter suggested tina the
state of Missouri was producing more
than Its share Of men who can make
mystery about that, too.
You see, I was a newspaper re-
porter at $11 a week, and I had to do
everything, and $11 a week don't
stretch enough to allow a man to ex-
pand much. So I had to keep digging,
and / didn't have time to think a
great deal of myself. and now, when
] have attained a little success, there
Is more to learn than: ever.
aYou get off -here?' Well SO Tong,
old man! Remember that smile!"
Reading Spontaneous.
commenting upon Mr.. Foley's read
ing. the st. Paul Pioneer Press says:
James Whitcomb Riley and George
AIDE to resolve themselves into a pleas
antly smiling, boyish-looking man,
whose language is replete with quaint
~ turned phrase and who speaks with
the most whimsical pauses and shades
OF tone. then that mar would be hailed
on the streets by his friends as ]. w.
lighted an audience at the Park Con-
~gregational church last night. appear-
ing under the auspices of the English
section Of the st. Paul institute.
In introducing himself to his hear
ers. Mr.. Foley assured them that he
regretted his bad taste in not being a
native of Minnesota.
But really" he said. II wasn't ma
ture enough when I was born to have
sound judgment. l live in North Da-
kota now. hut l was born in Missouri.
My parents were there at the time,
SO I considered 1t better that I should
make the state famous. At an early
oSe' T. W eA1St, J. toOh IneIn WIFI
me to the northwest, where Mr..
Roosevelt and I settled a large part
of the state Of North Dakota. I have
remained there, but Mr.. Roosevelt
presume you have heard of Mr.. Roose.
velt?-left there to go east-to-ac-
cept-a government-positiop."
Throughout the delightful hour that
followed, the audience paid him a
unique compliment in repeating with
him, unconsciously, many Of his verses,
Snatches of rhyme that had. fingered
in the memory, their authorship un-
nown, were read by Mr.. Foley out of
Mr.. Foley's book. thus quickly estab-
fishing a comradship between speak,
er and hearers.